York Ebor Meeting Day Three Tips – CopyBet
The York Ebor Meeting enters day three on Friday, with the feature race the Group One Nunthorpe Stakes.
Also on the card are a pair of cracking Group Two races, these being the Lonsdale Stakes and the Gimcrack Stakes.
Trawlerman – York
The 2025 Ascot Gold Cup winner Trawlerman returns to York having skipped Goodwood and, with Kyprios now retired, he is the best stayer around.
The last time Trawlerman was at York was in 2022, when he won the Ebor Handicap, but he now lines up for the Lonsdale Cup, a race his trainer John Gosden has won four times.
Trawlerman has already beaten most of his rivals in this year’s field, with victories at Ascot and Sandown, and it’s hard to see any of them reversing the form.
The one question mark is Shackleton. We’ve already seen Scandinavia upsetting the older horses when receiving weight, and this three-year-old receives a stone from Trawlerman.
However, he has never run over this trip before and has yet to show anything of real class. He may improve and develop into a top stayer in time, but here it’s hard to see how he gets the better of the Gold Cup winner.
Arizona Blaze – York
The sprint division has been a minefield in recent years, and that is reflected in the results this year, with many big-price runners taking the group races in this division.
The division lacks a star and it may pay to look at the younger horses, rather than the older horses who have disappointed on several occasions.
The Adrian Murray-trained three-year-old Arizona Blaze has run more than most this season, but put up a career best last time in the Group Two Sapphire Stakes at the Curragh. That effort came after he was narrowly denied in the Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot.
He came very close in a Group One last year, coming second in the Breeders Cup Juvenile turf sprint, so is no stranger to running well at the very top and arrives at York in solid form.
We Dare To Dream – York
We Dare To Dream is being massively overlooked in the market in the finale. He was well beaten last time out, but that came on heavy ground, which may not have suited him at all.
Prior to that, he was progressing nicely, having already won earlier in the season, and he was first past the post on his penultimate start, only to lose the race in the stewards’ room.
We Dare To Dream also ran a fine third over a mile and one furlong at Musselburgh, staying on strongly in a contest that was run in a good time.
With conditions more in his favour now and the step up in trip likely to help, he looks a big price and one capable of outrunning his odds.