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The Great St. Wilfrid Stakes is a flat handicap horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged three years or older. It is run at Ripon over a distance of 6 furlongs (1,207 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in August.

The event is named after St. Wilfrid, the patron saint of Ripon. The winning owner is awarded a silver trophy depicting St. Wilfrid mounted on horseback.

The Great St. Wilfrid Stakes is the venue's most valuable race of the season. It has been sponsored by William Hill since 1994.

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Wood Ready to Fire In Great St Wilfrid Handicap

A field of seventeen runners line up for the 2025 Great St Wilfrid Handicap at Ripon racecourse.

This race was a much clasier race a few years ago with horses rated in the 90's guaranteed a run. That was only right for such a prestigious and valuable race. Today, there is five runners rated 80 lining up with Rock Opera a pound out of the handicap proper.

Maybe it's due to been so close to the Ebor Festival but surely this race should attract more horses that ran in the Stewards Cup at the Goodwood Festival. Anyways, enough of my rambling and let's try and bag a winner.

Grant Wood might be drawn well in stall two as the likely pace setting Intervention is drawn alongside in stall one. Grant Wood won the Silver Handicap Trophy on this card last year and looks to be primed for a big shot at winning the Great St Wilfrid handicap this time round.

Grand Wood finished second twice on the all-weather in the spring before freshened up following a poor run at Haydock in late May. I thought he was given an easy comeback run over course and distance twelve days go to peak for this race. He is well treated on a mark of 84 with Aiden Brookes claiming three pounds.

Ripon 3:20

0.5 point each way Grant Wood 11/1 Bet365 else 10/1 William Hill, Paddy Power, Betway & Unibet, 5 places.

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Best of Luck,

Nicky

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2024 Past Results

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Last year was a winning and profitable year for followers for the Big Saturday Race Prewiew & Tips column.

A profit of +19.55 points won.

There was 10 winners & 18 placed from a total of 80 tips.

A tidy profit of £977.50 to £50 per point stakes or maybe £391 to £20 per point stakes.

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2025 running total -33.28 points or -£666 to to £10 ew stakes.​

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Since the Big Saturday Race Preview column began in 2014 the service is showing profits of +132 points

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