Two prize items from last Saturday's Epsom Derby will be offered for sale in York tomorrow night.

French star Olivier Peslier, who rode High-Rise to glory on Epsom Downs last weekend, is donating his whip and boots from the big race to the Macmillan Cancer Organisation.

Both items will be auctioned at the Timeform dinner at York Racecourse tomorrow night and the proceeds will go to the fund.

Other items for auction include a piece of silver donated by the Queen, and a study in bronze of jockey Frankie Dettori.

Timeform's Racing Personality of the Year will also be announced at the dinner.

There is prize money of over £200,000 for Knavesmire's two-day meeting tomorrow and Saturday.

The 28th Timeform Charity Day on Saturday features Europe's richest handicap for three-year-olds - the £50,000-added William Hill Trophy - as well as the most valuable prize for lady amateur riders, The Queen Mother's Cup.

Tomorrow's card is being promoted as The Northern Students' Raceday.

Since its inception in 1971, Timeform Charity Day has raised £2.25 million for various charities, principally Macmillan Cancer Relief.An aggregate of 686,000 racegoers have attended the previous 27 Timeform Charity Days at York.

Saturday's seven-race card carries a record £126,000 in added prize money and looks like offering competitive fare with five handicaps featured.

The William Hill Trophy has had a £5,000 prize money increase, while the lady amateur rider who wins the 11th running of the Queen Mother's Cup will celebrate with the traditional prize of her own weight in Champagne Ruinart.

Heading a strong supporting cast are the £20,000-added Cadogan Silver Salver - which enjoys a £5,000 increase in added money and a ratings rise to 0-95 - and the £15,000 Daniel Prenn Royal Yorkshire Rated States.

The Leonard Sainer EBF Maiden Stakes could offer a racecourse debut to Prosperity who, like his half-brother and leading international miler Decorated Hero, is trained by Tim Easterby of Great Habton, near Malton, and bred and owned in partnership by Timeform chairman Reg Griffin and Jim McGrath. A probable runner in the Charles Henry Memorial Handicap is the Richard Fahey-trained Night Flight, owned by Mr and Mrs Charles Stevens, who sponsor the race in memory of their son. The programme is completed by the Michael Sobell Maiden Stakes.

Tomorrow's fully-sponsored non-televised programme features two £15,000 contests. The first of these is the Shepherd Ebor Trial Rated Stakes - the second race sponsored at the course this year by the York-based construction company.

The day's 'showcase race' is the six-furlong Marketing Week 20th Anniversary Rated Stakes.

The day's biggest field is likely to be in the Anthony Fawcett Memorial Stakes. This five-furlong contest is supported by the family of the late racehorse owner and his son Tony Fawcett, chairman of Studford Leisure, which owns three restaurant-inns in North Yorkshire and sponsors York's top jockey award.

Also tomorrow, Falklands veteran Simon Weston, co-founder and president of Weston Spirit, a charity which offers opportunities to young people in inner-city areas, will present the trophies for the Batleys & Weston Spirit Median Auction Stakes. Batleys' buying and operations director Len McCormick will also be at the presentation ceremony.

The winning trainer and jockey in the Polo Supermint Limited Stakes will receive six months' supply of the new mints just launched by Nestle.

Another recently unveiled brand on show tomorrow will be regional train operator Northern Spirit. The Northern Spirit University of York Novice Fillies Stakes is the focal point for The Northern Students' Raceday promotion hosted by York University.

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