Alex Hammond blog: Ripon, Newbury and Irish Oaks selections on big Saturday with Go Racing In Yorkshire Summer Festival

Sky Sports Racing's Alex Hammond is looking forward to the Go Racing In Yorkshire Summer Festival. The festival starts on Saturday and features a red-hot card at Ripon. Sky Bet sponsor the festival and have priced up some specials around the week. Alex is 8/1 joint second favourite with ITV Racing’s Ed Chamberlin to finish top of the table. Karl Burke is 11/4 to be top trainer and Ben Curtis 4/5 to lead jockey.

There is a lot of racing going on on Saturday. The feature race is the Titanium Racing Ripon Bell-Ringer Handicap. There are seven runners declared, one of them is three-year-old Approachability. Global Heat and Alright Sunshine are the other two runners. Bollin Joan is trained by Tim Easterby and has four wins and two second places at Rip on her record. Furzig has made one trip to Rip and won. Wise Eagle is better suited to further distance. Danehill Kodiac hasn't won for five years. Alex Hammond blogs about Go Racing In Yorkshire Summer Festival.

Alex Hammond blog: Ripon, Newbury and Irish Oaks selections on big Saturday with Go Racing In Yorkshire Summer Festival. Miami Girl, Swift Asset and Union Court are each-way favourites in Weatherbys Super Sprint at Newburys. Ed Walker's team have been flying. Maria Branwell is aiming to continue the trend for David O'Meara. Rogue Spirit bypassed Ascot to be saved for this race. Eddie's Boy is super speedy and has been running well. Alex Hammond will be in the Sky Sports Racing studios this weekend. He will chat next week. He is in a windowless, airconditioned box.