New Dates For Yorkshire Best

Hello all

Just a quick blog to let you know of the up-and-coming Yorkshire Best events; 

Of course we have our first ever Yorkshire Best event on the 23^rd September in York’s beautiful Hospitium

 

 

 

 

 

The next event will be held on the 9^th December in York and now, newly added, we have our first Masham Yorkshire Best event on the 15^th December at the town hall.

 

This will be a Christmas special so make sure you pop down to buy lots of stocking fillers for friends, family or maybe just to indulge yourself.

 

 

 

 At Now and Then Events, we’re always on the look out for top quality, hand-made, home-grown and local businesses so if you would like to work with us at one of our future events please get in touch via our facebook page

 

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Things To Do In Yorkshire #1

York Races

 

 

The York racecourse is set on the south outskirts of York in the locally named venue of the Knavesmire. It is a venue seeped in history though has become home to horse racing since 1731

 

 

 

Whilst there are races throughout the year, the August bank holiday weekend is arguably the most popular time to attend when it plays host to the Ebor festival meeting.

 

The festival takes place over 4 days; this year it was held from the 22nd-25th August

 

The Wednesday is Juddmonte International day, Thursday is Ladies' day, Friday, Nunthorpe day and the Saturday finishes with Ebor day

 

This year there was an added excitement as the worlds best racehorse Frankel raced in the Juddmonte International stakes on the opening day of the festival. The owner, trainer and jockey were asking an extra 10 furlongs from the superstar and he didn't disappoint with his lucky number 13 consecutive career win

 

 

 

 

Other highlights included Frankie Detori winning his first Ebor and Alex (from Now and Then Events) taking a rare time out from emails to enjoy ladies day

 

 

 





Yorkshire Gold....

....and silver....and bronze!

It’s hard not to have been caught up in the whirlwind that has been the Olympics over the last fortnight and here in Yorkshire we’ve been particularly proud to have nurtured some of the key award winning medallists.

Winning a total of 12 medals, it’s even been stated that if we could be classed as an independent country, we would have come 12^th on the league table which is a pretty outstanding achievement.

So who do we owe our thanks to?

Achieving Gold medals were;  

-        Luke Campbell from Hull in boxing
-        Nicola Adams from Leeds also in boxing
-        Jessica Ennis from Sheffield in the heptathlon
-        Alistair Brownlee from Leeds in the triathlon
-        Ed Clancy from Huddersfield in the track cycling
-        Andy Triggs-Hodge from the Yorkshire Dales in the rowing
-        Kat Copeland from North Yorkshire also in the rowing

Achieving Silver medals were;

-        Lizzie Armisted from Otley in the cycling
-        Nicola Wilson from Northallerton as part of the eventing team

Achieving Bronze medals were;

-        Ed Clancy in another cycling achievement
-        Tom Ransley from York in the rowing 
-        Jonathan Brownlee from Leeds in the triathlon 

If this wasn’t inspirational enough, it seems the Olympic ‘bug’ has rubbed off on the majority of us with lots of social and general media reporting on the rise of people taking up new sports – lets just hope it doesn’t wear off by the end of the school holidays!

Welcome to Yorkshire Best

Welcome to the new Yorkshire Best blog

Yorkshire Best has been brought to you by Now and Then Events, the curators of Yorkshire Does Vintage.

On here you will find updates and reports about the new Yorkshire Best events that are to be held.

The first one is on the 23rd September and is going to be held in the beautiful location of the Hospitium in York's Museum Garden's.

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