York - Where Derby rules supremely well

For many years, I didn’t like York. We used to sponsor races there through different clients, and I’d been to The Yorkshire Royal Ascot, which was a disaster. (Ascot brought their own caterers and charged like a wounded Rhino with no access to painkillers!).

But many of my good friends go there, have a great time, get entertained for next to nothing, and eat really well for very little. They drink plenty, come home with winnings and stories of 20/1 winners and 50/1 almosts, and look at me with pity because I missed out, endlessly saying, “… you should have seen…”

My York ennui changed when