Look smart - it's time to prize those who dress the part from Wetherby to Doncaster
Can you sense the excitement? It all starts at Wetherby a week on Monday. That is just nine days away now. Plenty will have been counting down for months.
Of course, if you cannot make it then, there are plenty more opportunities across Yorkshire through the summer, right up to the Thursday of the St Leger meeting at Doncaster.
No, it is not a new lucrative series for six-furlong handicappers trained in the Ridings, a countywide promotion by John Smith's or even the Kaiser Chiefs' concert schedule. Rather, it is the cultural phenomenon that is the Go Racing In Yorkshire Best Dressed competition.
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