Only seven runners are due to line up for the final Classic of the flat season, the Group 1 Betfred St Leger. Unsurprisingly, the small field at Doncaster tomorrow (3.40 p.m.) is dominated by runners trained in Ireland by Co Tipperary maestro Aidan O’Brien.
I had not expected to bet in the race but the sponsors are paying three places and so I can’t resist an each way dabble
Of O’Brien’s three runners, Illinois is top rated and has a favourite’s chance because we know, from his Royal Ascot win in the Group 2 Queen’s Vase in June, that he will stay tomorrow’s trip of more than one mile and six furlongs. However, O’Brien’s other runners, the unbeaten Jan Brueghel and the improving Grosvenor Square, have chances too in a race in which the winner will receive a prize of more than £420,000.
I had not expected to bet in the race but the sponsors are paying three places and so I can’t resist an each way dabble on DEIRA MILE, who was fourth in the Betfred Derby behind City of Troy.
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