Horse Racing at Dante festival
The famous Dante festival at York is a kind of three days horse racing meeting held in the month of May. The horse racing festival includes major trials for the Epsom Oaks and Epsom Derby as well as the Yorkshire Cup for the best staying horses. Total twenty one races are organized during three days of racing racing on the Knavesmire and the results typically throw up clues to the Classic and Group races later in the season. The Dante Stakes, a race for three-year-old colts, is one of the leading prep races for the Derby with Motivator and Authorized two of the most recent winners to follow up in the Epsom contest. In total, nine horses have achieve the Dante-Derby double. Six horses have conquered the Musidora Stakes, the equivalent of the Dante Stakes but for three-year-old fillies, before going on to win the Epsom Oaks, the most recent being Sariska who did the double in 2009. Racegoers at York can try out the Tote's revolutionary new flexi horse betting system for the first time when it is launched at the totesport Dante meeting this week.
NewsMay 12, 2010
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