Grimthorpe Handicap Chase Club and director of Thirsk Racecourse, and the current Baron Grimthorpe, Teddy Beckett, is chairman of York Racecourse and racing manager to Khalid Abdullah. Grimthorpe Handicap Chase The Grimthorpe Handicap Chase is a National Hunt handicap steeplechase in England which is open to horses aged five years or older. It is run at Doncaster over a distance of about 3 miles and 2 furlongs and during the race there are 19 fences to be jumped. The race is scheduled to take place each year in late February or early March. Prior to the early 1980s the Grimthorpe Chase was run
Anthony St Leger (Master of the Rolls) Frances. Their son was knighted in 1627, and died in 1661. After Mary's death in 1603 he married Aphra Wotton, who outlived him by many years. Anthony St Leger (Master of the Rolls) Sir Anthony St Leger (the younger) (c.1535-1613) was an English-born judge in Ireland who held the office of Master of the Rolls in Ireland. There is some confusion about his parentage. It is often said that he was the third son of Sir Anthony St Leger, Lord Deputy of Ireland, and his wife Agnes Warham. However, both Burke's Peerage, and Francis Elrington Ball in his definitive study