Top operators: six names to side with at York's Ebor festival this week

Ahead of the Ebor festival at York, we select three jockeys and three trainers who it has proved highly profitable to follow at the meeting for the past decade . . .

Trainers

William Haggas
Level-stakes profit to £1 stakes +35.62
Ebor festival strike-rate 20.62 per cent

William Haggas has been the most prolific trainer at the Ebor festival in the past decade with 20 winners from 96 runners.

Sea Of Class provided him with his most notable success when she cantered home in the Darley Yorkshire Oaks last year, but his 19 other victories came in the supporting races.

William Haggas: has proved profitable to follow at the meetingCredit: Edward Whitaker

Haggas has won the Goffs UK Premier Yearling Stakes (2.25 Thursday) three times in the last ten years and runs St Ives.

He could also run four in the meeting's signature race, the Ebor Handicap (3.40 Saturday), including Raheen House who is well fancied for the £1 million race after two placed finishes over course and distance this season.

Michael Dods
Level-stakes profit +30.5
Strike-rate 17.65 per cent

Although there are plenty of trainers with more Ebor festival winners than Michael Dods, the Denton-based handler boasts an impressive profit margin at Yorkshire's premier meeting.

Of Dods's six winners, two have came in Group 1 company with Mecca's Angel winning back-to-back Nunthorpes in 2015 and 2016.

He has another live chance in this year's Nunthorpe (3.35 Friday) with Mabs Cross, who will be looking for redemption after being denied last year by a pixel in a photo-finish with Alpha Delphini.

He also has Dakota Gold, who is bidding for a hat-trick in the Sky Bet And Symphony Group Handicap (1.55 Wednesday), fresh from winning the Great St Wilfrid at Ripon on Saturday.

John Quinn
Level-stakes profit +11.5
Strike-rate 15 per cent

Ebor festival runners are scarce for John Quinn, but the trainer has experienced plenty of success at his local track and will be hoping to add to his three victories.

He sends a formidable team to the Knavesmire headlined by Molecomb Stakes winner Liberty Beach. The promising two-year-old goes for the Group 2 Sky Bet Lowther Stakes (1.55 Thursday) and tops the market, having claimed Listed and Group 2 honours this season.

Recent Goodwood winner Cobra Eye also makes great appeal, with Frankie Dettori partnering him in the Group 3 Tattersalls Acomb Stakes (2.25 Wednesday).

Jockeys

Frankie Dettori
Level-stakes profit +11.07
Strike-rate 19.01 per cent

It is impossible to ignore the charismatic Italian this season with so many Group 1s dominated by he and chief supporter John Gosden.

The duo have raked in the top-level successes since Anapurna won the Oaks in May and Dettori is one of the Ebor festival's finest performers, taking 23 wins in the last ten years.

He is almost certain to add at least another win this year as he partners two hot favourites in Enable (3.35 Thursday) and Stradivarius (2.25 Friday). Unbeaten St Leger hope Logician, who is out to advertise his St Leger credentials, is another fascinating ride for Dettori in the Sky Bet Great Voltigeur (3.00 Wednesday).

Oisin Murphy
Level-stakes profit +43.5
Strike-rate 18.92 per cent

Leading the jockeys' championship, Oisin Murphy could be another to side with at the meeting and had high-profile success last year aboard Roaring Lion in the Juddmonte International.

He also savoured a brilliant day in the 2015 Ebor when guiding Litigant to victory at odds of 33-1.

His best chance this year arguably comes in the Group 2 Al Basti Equiworld Dubai Gimcrack Stakes (3.00 Friday), where he partners the exciting Richard Hannon-trained Threat.

Murphy's association with Japanese trainers continues again with Cheval Grand in the Juddmonte (3.35 Wednesday), and he also has an exciting mount aboard the talented and progressive Falcon Eight in the Lonsdale Cup.

William Buick
Level-stakes profit +21.38
Strike-rate 13.33 per cent

Buick only recently returned to the saddle after a layoff but Godolphin's maestro has shown no signs of rust, winning on his comeback ride at Newmarket.

Previously a winner of the Yorkshire Oaks on The Fugue in 2013 and the Nunthorpe with Ortensia in 2012, Buick has claimed 14 Ebor festival successes.

William Buick: has not lost his touch since returning from injuryCredit: Edward Whitaker

Although he does not have an abundance of rides this year, he partners some interesting sorts with Althiqa one who really stands out in the Sky Bet Lowther Stakes.

The two-year-old was successful on her debut and, with that form boosted by the second since, she could bring more Ebor success to Buick and Godolphin.

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