World Pool available for first three days of York Ebor Festival

With over £250million bet into the World Pool on 12 racedays already this year, for the first time this week's Welcome to Yorkshire Ebor Festival will also be a World Pool event.

Across the first three days of the festival, racing fans from around the world will have the opportunity to bet into a single pool ensuring larger and deeper pools, differentiated pricing, and the opportunity for unequalled value for Tote customers.

British racing has so far hosted 12 World Pool days in 2021 at QIPCO 2000 Guineas Day, Cazoo Derby Day, Royal Ascot, Coral-Eclipse Day, QIPCO King George Diamond Day and the Qatar Goodwood Festival.

Bridget Guerin, Chairman of York Racecourse, said: "York Racecourse is delighted that all three of our midweek racedays of the Welcome to Yorkshire Ebor Festival are World Pool events. This includes our three Group One races, including the Longines World’s Best Race, the £1m Juddmonte International.

"We look forward to having the opportunity to showcase our feature race meeting to a global betting audience and to build on the sport’s ongoing work with the teams at both the Hong Kong Jockey Club and the Tote to grow pool betting on British racing.”

Alex Frost, Chief Executive of the UK Tote Group, said: “With 17 World Pool days being hosted at British and Irish race meetings in 2021, it is exciting to see the growing awareness of the exceptional value World Pool can offer to Tote customers, and the financial benefits it brings to racecourses and the wider sport. We look forward to once again seeing the World Pool brand oncourse at York this week as we all look forward to an excellent week of racing.”

The Welcome to Yorkshire Ebor Festival marks the continuation of the first ever summer of international horse racing made available to Hong Kong customers while their local industry is in season recess.

After the Welcome to Yorkshire Ebor Festival, Longines Irish Champion Stakes Day at Leopardstown on Saturday September 11 will be a World Pool event for the first time in 2021, followed by QIPCO British Champions Day on Saturday October 16.