Doncaster Racecourse its present location and in 1776 Colonel Anthony St. Leger founded a race in which five horses ran. This race has remained in existence and become the world's oldest classic horse race. During the first world war the racecourse was used for military purposes and substitute races were run at Newmarket from 1915 to 1918. Doncaster has the distinction of both starting and ending the flat season on turf. Every September, Doncaster hosts the prestigious four-day William Hill St. Leger Festival, which is acclaimed as the premier sporting occasion of the Autumn calendar. Doncaster has also taken over events whose
Albertas Run the Irish-trained winner Hairy Molly. In the 2006/7 National Hunt season Albertas Run competed as a Novice Hurdler, winning on his debut over obstacles at Uttoxeter Racecourse in October. He then started 4/6 favourite for a Handicap at Haydock Park but finished fourth behind more experienced opponents. In January, the gelding carried 158 pounds in a handicap at Huntingdon Racecourse and won by three and a half lengths Hot Lips Page and ten others. Albertas Run's win at Uttoxeter qualified him for the final race of EBF Sunderlands National Hunt Novices' Handicap Hurdle series, a Grade III race run over