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Ladies Break Record for Day at Ebor

Story published: 20 August 2010

The first ever Welcome to Yorkshire Ebor Festival has broken the Ladies Day record for a four day Festival and is in sight of the four day record of over 80,000 attendees.

A record 29,000 people went racing on Thursday and with one day left hopes are high that last year's record attendance of over 80,000 can be beaten. If it is, it will mean over 180,000 people have come racing in Yorkshire at just two of the county's racing Festivals with the oldest classic race at the St Leger Festival still to come in September.

Gary Verity, chief executive of Welcome to Yorkshire, said: "To have a new Ladies Day record in our first year of sponsoring the Ebor Festival is great news but to be within touching distance of a new four day attendance record in the teeth of a recession is a fantastic achievement which should not be underestimated.

"We are backing racing in Yorkshire, because we know people love coming racing in Yorkshire. We have the best racecourses and some of the best and most celebrated meetings and we are working hard to widen the appeal of Yorkshire racing across the UK and across the world."

Speaking on behalf of the team at York, William Derby, chief executive and clerk of the course, said: "A new Ladies Day record at the new look Festival is testament to the racecourse's partnership with Welcome to Yorkshire. We wanted to widen the appeal of Ebor beyond traditional racegoers and so we are delighted we have a new attendance record in the first year of our agreement and I'm sure we will all be working hard to beat it again next year!"

Yorkshire has been centre stage worldwide this week, with the races and the sponsorship agreement being seen in France, Japan, Dubai, America and Australia as racing fans tune into the global television coverage of the Festival provided by BBC Worldwide.

Yorkshire has also had considerable success on the track this week too with four Yorkshire winners from four different yards in the first three days alone.

ENDS

Editors' Notes:

Welcome to Yorkshire is the official tourism agency for Yorkshire, working to grow the county's visitor economy.
Welcome to Yorkshire is funded by Yorkshire Forward, the Regional Development Agency charged with improving the Yorkshire and Humber economy.
Key facts include:
Tourism in Yorkshire is worth £6.5 billion annually
The Yorkshire tourism industry employs almost a quarter of a million people
There are 209 million visits to Yorkshire each year
York Racecourse is proud to have been voted as Racecourse of the Year 2009 by the Racehorse Owner's Association and to have retained the accolade of most popular flat course with the members of the Racegoers Club.
Over the course of the 2009 season over 320,000 racegoers attended York racedays with over 80,000 visiting the Ebor Festival.
The course itself is a circuit of just over 2 miles in distance and is on land known as the Knavesmire; it has played host to race meetings since 1731
Each day of the Welcome to Yorkshire Ebor Festival has a Group One contest, a term used to designate the best races of their type on a global comparison; Tuesday has York's richest race the Juddmonte International offering £693,500 in prize money; Wednesday has the Festival's most famous race the totesport Ebor; Thursday is Ladies Day and has the richest all age race for fillies, the Darley Yorkshire Oaks and Friday has the fastest race of the season, the Coolmore Nunthorpe.