Ebor Festival 2026: Ben's Best Bets for Day 4

It's Day Four of the Ebor Festival and BettingLounge's racing expert Ben has gone through some of his favourite bets for the day, putting them in one place for you.

So, let's just dive in.

🥇 Best Bet

For my NAP on day four of what has proven to be a very profitable festival at York, we're going for Adonius in the second to last race.

This week has proven (more than it already was) that you need to be drawn low in these races. So, the 2-year-old gelding being in stall eight is only a positive.

Second to Pershaada - who ran on Friday - LTO, he had won each of his three races before and looks to be the class horse of this race.

Kaiya Fraser is operating at a 14% strike rate, in the past two weeks, so I think he could well improve that with a winner here on Adonius!

🥈 Next Best

For my Next Best bet, I'm going for Geryon in the first and it looks like quite an open race over just under 1m2f.

Drawn in stall six, we're in a good position from the get go, I feel, and there is plenty of pace for Gary Carroll to follow in this race - which will suit.

Never outside of the first four in his career, he has some impressive form on good ground to soft ground - as seen when he finished three and a quarter lengths behind Hawk Mountain last year on more testing ground.

The form of his recent races is working out quite nicely and despite finishing second in a Group 3 LTO, he is given a three pound drop. I think there's a lot in his favour here!

👀 Long Shot

For my long shot, I'm taking what I feel is a huge price on Flora of Bermuda in the City of York Stakes. At the time of writing, she's around 18/1 despite winning three of her four races this season.

In recent seasons, she's been campaigned more heavily on Good To Firm, but she has form on Soft ground, proving she can run on a variety of different ground types.

Oisin Murphy partners Andrew Balding here - a year after they won the race together with Never So Brave - for Wathnan and this mare just looks far too big in a field which may struggle if the ground isn't completely back to good...

I think she's got a great chance of a place, with William Hill offering four at the time of writing.

🏆 Ebor Selection

I couldn't do tips for the entire Ebor meeting and miss out the big race of the festival. So, I've got to have one here and I'm really keen on Love Me Tender, who runs here for Willie Mullins.

Mullins has had a few of interest in recent years, winning two of the last three renewals, and Love Me Tender certainly could be the next.

Owned by the H O S Syndicate & Oti Racing - just like Ethical Diamond and Absurde, who won before for Mullins - Love Me Tender could be something of an unknown quantity in this race.

Entering the race at 8st 12lbs, the 4-year-old is getting a lot of weight from some others towards the top end of the market and Mullins said to Sporting Life that he was one to look out for, thinking he was too big of a price...

He's been backed from 33/1 to 15/2 now, let's see if me and the market are right!

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