Andrew Newton looks ahead to the Doncaster curtain raiser

Okay, the Lincoln Handicap this year isn’t technically in the month of March – but it normally is and with the way the 2023 weekend’s fall in, this 1m early-season handicap has crept into April.
The Doncaster race, which is the big turf flat curtain raiser, will be staged on April 1 this year and hopefully with the key trends below you can give the bookies a little April Fools battering.
By the time this race will be run, the Cheltenham Festival, which will be grabbing much of the airtime in this month’s edition, will also be a...