Paul Jacobs looks ahead to the big York meeting

The eighth month of the year only means one thing for me in the world of racing and that is the Ebor Festival at York. The big race itself, now run on the Saturday, always meant trying to find a well treated three-yearold to beat up the older horses and more often than not land a huge gamble.Crazy, Primary and Tuning were all huge winners for me backed weeks in advance, but since the turn of the century the shape of this race has been turned on its head.With the value of the Ebor having bounded skyward in recent times, lightly-raced ...