Talking Horses: King Ottokar can reign in Lincoln on turf season return


The selection for the Doncaster betting highlight has eased in the weights and could be set for a very productive campaign

James Doyle has won the past two runnings of the Lincoln Handicap in 2018 and 2019, including an easy success on Charlie Appleby’s Auxerre as 5-2 favourite two years ago, and the same trainer’s Eastern World gives him an obvious chance of a hat-trick on Saturday.

The four-year-old is just one of several runners in the field that could yet make their mark in a higher grade later in the season, however, along with Brentford Hope and Haqeeqy, for the newly licensed father-and-son team of John and Thady Gosden.

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