Some of the highlights include Sam Spinner winning the Grade 2 bet 365 Novices’ Chase at Doncaster, Top Ville Ben taking the Grade 3 Rowland Meyrick at Wetherby and Lady Buttons winning back-to-back runnings of the MansionBet At Doncaster Yorkshire Silver Vase Mares’ Chase.

Outside of the county, Sue Smith’s Midnight Shadow won the Grade 2 Dipper Novices’ Chase at Cheltenham and on the human front, David O’Meara trained his 1,000th winner with Summerghand at Wolverhampton on Boxing Day.

With 21 jump meetings remaining in Yorkshire this season there is still a great deal to look forward to, including the North Yorkshire Grand National at Catterick Racecourse tomorrow.

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Annual Awards Lunch

We had a wonderful time celebrating the achievements of Yorkshire racing at the annual awards lunch in December at York Racecourse.

Huge thanks go to Sky Bet who sponsored the awards.

The winners were;

Leading Jump Trainer in Yorkshire – Philip Kirby

Leading Jump Jockey in Yorkshire – Sean Quinlan

Go Racing In Yorkshire Future Stars

Apprentice Winner – Kieran Schofield

Leading Flat Trainer in Yorkshire – Richard Fahey Leading

Flat Jockey in Yorkshire – Danny Tudhope

Yorkshire Horse of the Year – Definitly Red

Milestone winners for achievements throughout the year;

Tim Easterby – 2,000 winners

Joe Fanning – 2,500 winners

Brian Hughes – 1,000 winners

Mark Johnston – Broke the record for number of winners trained in a year

Paul Mulrennan – 1,000 winners

Danny Tudhope – 1,000 winners

John Sanderson – 50 years as clerk of the course

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