It became a significant market and [[horse racing]] centre and is known for the classic St. Leger race, named after the town's patron saint (believed to be an adaption of the [[Celts|Celtic]] deity Ledgerum, to whom an altar and various dedicatory tablets were recovered from the banks of the River Don by the Yorkshire Archaeological Society in 1882). | It became a significant market and [[horse racing]] centre and is known for the classic St. Leger race, named after the town's patron saint (believed to be an adaption of the [[Celts|Celtic]] deity Ledgerum, to whom an altar and various dedicatory tablets were recovered from the banks of the River Don by the Yorkshire Archaeological Society in 1882). |