Andy Newton looks ahead to the highlight of the York Festival – the most valuable handicap flat race in Europe 

WOW, we are heading into August already, with that we are now in the final few months of the flat turf season and it won’t be long before the better-known jump horses are back strutting their stuff.
However, before all that this month is always highlighted by the four-day York Ebor Festival (Wednesday 23 – Saturday 26).
Over the four days, there are bundles of standout races – including the Nunthorpe Stakes, the Juddmonte International, Great Voltigeur Stakes and the Yorkshire Oak...