POCK STAR!

Local lad can be pride of Yorkshire

- by JASON HEAVEY

POCKLINGTON (4.10, nb) can be the most "Yorkshire" winner of the week on the last day of the Ebor Festival.

The vibrant market town of Pocklington lies east of York at the foot of the Yorkshire Wolds.

And its equine namesake should also prove popular with punters on the Knavesmire in the Sky Bet Constantine Handicap.

Geoff Oldroyd’s four-year-old has only raced seven times and I'm convinced we have not seen the best of him.

He remains on a rating of 95 and I eventually see him as a 100-plus sprinter.

At this meeting last year he was just three lengths behind Jm Jungle whom he was trying to give 8lb to.