Conquer Yorkshire and earn £100,000: the new prize fund ready to be won

Reckon your horse can win at Beverley, Catterick, Doncaster, Pontefract, Redcar, Ripon, Thirsk, Wetherby and York? Do it by the end of next year and you'll earn £100,000.

The payout will go to the Yorkshire Wonder Horse, who can triumph on all the county's courses between the start of the Flat turf season next month and New Year's Eve 2023.

The stiff challenge has been devised by Go Racing In Yorkshire, whose acting chairman John Sanderson said: "We believe this is possible – in 2020, Main Fact, trained by David Pipe, won at nine different courses in 11 months. The £100,000 is a great incentive to encourage owners and trainers to run their horses at the Yorkshire tracks."

Malton trainer Nigel Tinkler welcomed the scheme, which is backed by equine supplier mcivors.co.uk. He said: "Anything that encourages people to run their horses in Yorkshire and racegoers to attend meetings has got to be a good thing.

"I think this is a great initiative and we'll definitely be targeting it. It will probably suit a middle-distance horse and we may have to alter our training methods a little to encourage our horses to stay a bit further."

Fellow trainer Ruth Carr added: "This is something that all owners can target and makes a large prize pot available for all abilities of horses, we just need to find the right races for them. Hopefully we've got something progressive enough in the yard to tick off the nine courses."

The scheme is open to horses from across the whole country and the £100,000 will be shared between owner, trainer, jockey and yard. An extra £5,000 will be donated to Racing Welfare should the challenge be completed.

Jason McIvor of www.mcivors.co.uk said: "We're celebrating our 50th year in business and historically the racing community, along with agriculture, has played a significant role in our success. This is a great opportunity to be able to give something back to an industry that has been integral to our growth and we're thrilled to be part of it."

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