The York Ebor Festival
Jul 15, 2021
2 minutes
THIS is not just a feast of flat racing but, believe it or not, tautology. No, ‘ebor’ doesn’t mean festival. It is taken from the Latin word Eboracum, which means York. So, the York York Festival.
From the Latin influence in the Festival’s name comes the Anglo-Saxon etymology of the land upon which the racing takes part, the Knavesmire. The word knave, or Jack, is the least important
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