Ian Heitman reports on the opening skirmishes from the All-Weather Championships which run until April

The Ebor Handicap is the centrepiece of York’s fourday August meeting and is invariably one of the toughest races of the year for punters to solve. The 10th All-Weather Championships got underway at Newcastle on October 18 and finish on April 7 when there is over £1 million of prize money on offer for Finals Day, once again in the north-east. As in recent years, there are six categories, Three-Year-Old, Fillies & Mares, Sprint, Mile, Middle Distance and Marathon....