David Cormack looks at one of the season’s biggest handicaps

YORK EBOR STATS

Oceane beats Nakeeta in the 2016 Ebor

Litigant

The Ebor Handicap is the centrepiece of York’s four-day August meeting and is invariably one of the toughest races of the year for punters to solve, as befits Europe’s most richly endowed handicap.
I’ve taken a look at the last 10 renewals of the race when run at York (I’ve excluded the Newbury running in 2008 so the analysis is for York renewals from 2007 to 2017) to try and identify patterns that may help to narrow down the field a...