This year, the three-day Dante meeting totals to a record-breaking, purse of £1.5m. The 2026 York Dante Festival is expected to attract around 60,000 racegoers over the three-days racing - providing a huge boost to the city's culture and economy. Using pre-Covid data from 2019, the study revealed that the horse racing
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Young people set to party at York Races this summer
Young people will get the chance to experience a unique event at York Races this season. Invades, which seeks to promote live sport to younger audiences, will stage live DJs, music and socialising alongside traditional racing on the Knavesmire next month. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQlszlGiIkR/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Invades, York race social media. Hundreds of students from the city's
Duke of York Stakes Renamed Ahead of This Year’s Dante Festival
The feature race on day one of this year's Dante Festival has been renamed in the wake of the controversy regarding royal family member Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor York racecourse introduced the newly named Go Local Minster Stakes to replace the original title of the Duke of York Stakes. The 2026 Dante Festival, which