Ruby Walsh will ride Kauto Star while Turpin Green will be another contender.
Turpin, insisting the money was just enough to cover his costs of hosting, pled guilty to a misdemeanor and paid a small fine.
Adrian Turpin, director of the Wigtown Book Festival, says it is, quite simply, the biggest thing to happen since the book town was born.
"Any model that relies on that is obsolete, " said Mr Turpin.
"There was a time when second-hand book sellers in book towns were first of all selling books and secondly selling the experience of browsing, " explained Mr Turpin.
Turpin Green, who was third in the 2007 Cheltenham Gold Cup, has been out through injury since finishing alone in the Edward Hanmer Chase at Haydock last December.
Costumed actors would normally be frightening visitors with tales of Dick Turpin and re-enacting grisly bits of York's past but today they are helping to pump out the building.
It was also a miserable day for Friday's stage winner Ludovic Turpin, who has a suspected broken right hip after crashing on the descent of the infamous Col du Mollard.
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But Belling and cofounder Pat Turpin, an ex-investment banker who managed private-label brands for Costco, needed to get the snack out there fast before they could persuade chains like Safeway and Whole Foods to clear shelf space.
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In April last year David Turpin, a member of Washington State University's track squad who was attending the school on a partial scholarship, was arrested and charged with a felony violation of Washington's gambling laws after an undercover agent witnessed him hosting games of Texas Hold 'Em in his apartment and taking 10% of the pots as his fee.
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