A preview of the key ante-post markets for the Ebor Festival at York

Lonsdale Cup (2:25pm, Friday 24^th August)

The Stayers’ Million is on for Stradivarius. John Gosden’s four-year-old has already won the Yorkshire Cup, the Ascot Gold Cup and the Goodwood Cup and now needs only the Lonsdale Cup to collect the £1m prize.

He’ll go off as favourite for the Group 2 contest, with recent rival Torcedor set to be his main challenger once again.

Nunthorpe Stakes (3:35pm, Friday 24^th August)

Marsha pulled off a huge shock in this renewal 12 months ago when getting the better of Lady Aurelia and Battaash. The latter is the only one of the trio left remaining and is 4/7 to build on her recent 4l distance win in the King George Qatar Stakes with a first success at York.

Charles Hills’ charge is by far and away the classiest operator in a field which should also includes US Navy Flag at 5/1 and impressive King’s Stand Stakes winner Blue Point at 11/2.

Ebor Handicap (3:40pm, Saturday 25^th August)

Eight of the last 10 winners of the Ebor Handicap have come at a double-figure price. But who will follow in Nakeeta’s footsteps from last year and land the most valuable flat handicap in Europe?

Owner Tony Bloom has made a habit of winning these big prizes and he looks set to go again with 4/1 shot Stratum. He’s followed by Blakeney Point (8/1), Chelkar (10/1) and the consistent Hamada at 10/1 for Charlie Appleby.

Bigger priced horses may be the way to go closer to the day when declarations for the race are confirmed.

What else is there to enjoy?                    

There’s plenty more great action to enjoy across the week, with markets set to be published shortly for the Group 2 trio of the Great Voltigeur Stakes (Wednesday), Lowther Stakes (Thursday) and Gimcrack Stakes (Friday).

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All Odds and Markets are correct as of the date of publishing