RACING memorabilia will be unveiled when the new season gets under way at Ripon, Yorkshire’s Garden Racecourse, next month.

During the winter months, the course’s club enclosure bar and restaurant has been renovated and renamed the Silks & Saddles Bar.

Local trainers including Micky Hammond and Ann Duffield, plus the mighty Godolphin stable, have helped out in decorating the bar with unique silks, saddles and whips.

Racegoers can get their first look at the work when the season starts on Thursday, April 19.

Ripon which regained the title of Best Small Racecourse in the North in 2011, stages its Ladies’ Day on Thursday, June 21, while the annual Children’s Day will take place on Monday, August 6.