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The Sky Bet Ebor Festival takes place at York Racecourse from Wednesday 19 to Saturday 22 August 2026, delivering four days of top-class flat racing in a northern setting widely regarded as the finest racecourse environment in Britain. York’s Knavesmire provides an outstanding natural racing canvas with straight, well-maintained turf and excellent viewing facilities that have consistently placed the racecourse at or near the top of racegoer satisfaction surveys for decades. The Ebor Festival is headlined by the Sky Bet Ebor Handicap on Saturday, one of the most valuable handicaps in British racing and a race with sufficient complexity, field size and quality to produce genuine drama regardless of the year. The week also features the Juddmonte International on Wednesday — one of the most prestigious mile-and-a-quarter races in the world — alongside the Yorkshire Oaks on Thursday and the Nunthorpe Stakes on Friday, making the four-day programme one of the richest in the flat racing calendar by prize money and competitive quality. For London racing fans York is two hours from King’s Cross on a fast direct service — close enough to consider a same-day return on any single race day, but the multi-day programme and the quality of the city’s hotels, independent restaurants and historic attractions make an Ebor weekend away from the capital a thoroughly rewarding option. Tickets for all four days are available via York Racecourse across all enclosures from general admission to restaurant hospitality.