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The day's most interesting UK & Irish racing data on one page — computed each morning from the declared cards and the full historical archive. Descriptive data and rankings, never predictions or tips.

Saturday, 22 August 2026

Featured race

Sky Bet City Of York Stakes (Group 1)

York · 15:00 · Group 1 · 0m7f0y · Good To Soft · £340,260

Mean official rating 114.0 across 14 runners — higher than 90% of rated fields since 1988

3 pattern races on the card at York.

Ranked against every archive race since 1988 — descriptive ratings data, not a prediction.

The day in numbers

8
meetings
58
races
31
largest field
129
first tries at this trip
8
pattern races

Counts from the day's declared racecards.

Course fact of the day

York races today

28.2%
favourites won here since 1988 (1,314 of 4,661)
32.9%
national favourite strike rate

Newmarket-July: 12.1 m elevation range, 28 m total climb per circuit.

Historical archive aggregates — past results, not a guide to today's outcomes. Topology measured from OpenStreetMap data, published as open data (ODbL).

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