ITV Racing at the Sky Bet Ebor Festival 2024
ITV Racing will broadcast FIVE live races every day of the Sky Bet Ebor Festival at York Racecourse from 1.30-4.30pm on Wednesday 21 – Saturday 24 August on ITV.
The Opening Show preview programme is on from 9.30-10.30am on Saturday 24 August on ITV4. All shows will be simulcast on ITVX.
The Sky Bet Ebor is Europe’s richest flat handicap race and York’s oldest race, first run in 1843. It is the highlight on Saturday of a four-day festival of top-class racing on the iconic Knavesmire in the heart of Yorkshire.
Ed Chamberlin and Francesca Cumani host exclusive free-to-air coverage live from York. Jason Weaver and Adele Mulrennan join them for expert analysis. Ruby Walsh will be in his analysis hub.
Out and about will be Oli Bell, Mick Fitzgerald and Matt Chapman with Richard Hoiles in the commentary box.
The Opening Show on Saturday is hosted by Oli Bell and the team will look back at a wonderful week of racing and preview the best of Saturday's action including the Sky Bet Ebor. There will be a free-to-enter ITV7 competition.
The weekly highlights will be the Juddmonte International Stakes on Wednesday, where all eyes will be on the Derby winner, City of Troy. Thursday’s showpiece is the Pertemps Network Yorkshire Oaks showcasing the season’s top fillies, and the Coolmore Nunthorpe Stakes on Friday is the showpiece of the day featuring Big Evs, one of the most popular flat horses in training.
Saturday’s Sky Bet Ebor is the oldest and most famous race in York’s history and the highlight of the calendar at the Knavesmire racecourse and the richest handicap race in Europe.
Wednesday 21 August 1.50pm Symphony Group Stakes 2.25pm Tattersalls Acomb Stakes (Group 3) 3.00pm Sky Bet Voltigeur Stakes (Group 2) 3.35pm Juddmonte International Stakes – Group 1 4.10pm Sky Bet Stayers Stakes
Thursday 22 August 1.50pm Sky Bet Lowther Stakes (Group 2) 2.25pm Harry’s Half Million by Goffs Premier Yearling Stakes 3.00pm Clipper Stakes 3.35pm Pertemps Network Yorkshire Oaks - Group 1 4.10pm British EBF and Sir Henry Cecil Galtres Stakes
Friday 23 August 1.50pm Sky Bet Stakes 2.25pm Weatherbys Hamilton Lonsdale Cup (Group 2) 3.00pm Al Basti Equiworld Dubai Gimcrack Stakes (Group 2) 3.35pm Coolmore Wooton Bassett Nunthorpe Stakes - Group 1 4.10pm Assured Data Protection EBF Fillies’ Stakes
Saturday 24 August 1.50pm Sky Bet Strensall Stakes (Group 3) 2.25pm Sky Bet Melrose Stakes 3.00pm Sky Bet City of York Stakes (Group 2) 3.35pm Sky Bet Ebor 4.10pm Sky Bet Constantine Stakes
Plus two races from Goodwood