To celebrate the start of the second week of Wimbledon, Pontefract is staging a 'Wimbledon Day' meeting on Monday, June 29.
Racegoers can enjoy strawberries & cream, Pimm's & fizz and stay up to date with the tennis while enjoying a day at the races.
Monday's eight-race programme begins at 2.15pm with a Handicap contest for lady amateur riders, and also featured is Th
e Spindrifter Conditions Stakes, a £12,000 contest for two-year-olds over six furlongs, held annually to commemorate the achievements of the record-breaking juvenile, Spindrifter, who won 13 races as a two-year-old in 1980, three of which were achieved at Pontefract. Spindrifter was owned by Grahame Waters, who will present the challenge trophy to the successful owner.
The most valuable race of the afternoon, The EBF Park Suite Fillies' Handicap Stakes, is a £15,000 contest for fillies and mares over the sprint distance of six furlongs, while course specialist, Mr Wolf has a handicap race for three-year-old sprinters named in his honour to celebrate his seven victories at Pontefract, including his latest success earlier this month. The eight-year-old is trained at Scorton near Richmond in North Yorkshire by David Barker.
Former Malton trainer, Ted Carter is honoured in The Ted Carter 'Lifetime in Racing' Fillies' Handicap Stakes over one mile, a race organised by the charity Racing Welfare to acknowledge those who have spent a lifetime in the sport of racing.
Once again at this meeting, racehorse owner Tony Perkins sponsors a race in memory of his grandfather, as three and four-year-old maiden fillies contest The Wilfred Underwood Maiden Fillies' Stakes, while friends and family of the late Wayne Conway continue to support a Handicap contest for three-year-olds in his memory. He was from Barnsley and enjoyed racing at Pontefract.
