Lincoln Handicap Lincoln Handicap The Lincoln Handicap is a flat handicap horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged four years or older. It is run over a distance of 1 mile (1,609 metres) at Doncaster in late March or early April. It is traditionally the feature event on the first Saturday of Britain's turf flat racing season. It usually takes place one or two weeks before the Grand National, and for betting purposes the two races form the Spring Double. The only jockey to have ever won both legs was David Dick in 1956. An event called the Lincolnshire Handicap
St Leger St Leger, 1st Viscount Doneraile St Leger St Leger, 1st Viscount Doneraile St Leger St Leger, 1st Viscount Doneraile (born St Leger Aldworth; died 15 May 1787), was an Anglo-Irish politician and peer. He was the son of Richard Aldworth and the Hon. Elizabeth St Leger. Through his mother, he was a grandson of Arthur St Leger, 1st Viscount Doneraile. He was given the name of St Leger Aldworth at birth, but he legally changed his surname to St Leger on 9 May 1767, when he succeeded to the Doneraile estates upon the death of his uncle, Hayes St Leger, 4th Viscount Doneraile (1702–1767). Like