#Cazoo St Leger

The St Leger: will be staged on a nine-race card at Doncaster on Sunday The BHA has announced that Saturday's racing in Britain will be cancelled as a mark of respect following the death of the Queen, with key races including the St Leger featuring in a revised programme on Sunday. The new nine-race card at Doncaster will also include the Group 2…

Hurricane Lane: an impressive winner of the St Leger last year The Cazoo St Leger (3.55) is the final Classic in Britain this year and one of the standout races this weekend. We have looked back at a number of factors to see who may win Sunday's Group 1 highlight. In the last ten years, only two winners have had a rating below 110. Harbour Law was…

1pt win Francesco Clemente in Cazoo St Leger at 25/1 (Sky Bet) No shortage of water yet to pass under the bridge prior to the Cazoo St Leger on September 10 so with one firm cutting Westover to a ridiculously skinny 6/4 for the Doncaster Classic on the back of winning a decidedly weak Irish Derby last weekend, I can't resist exploring some of the…

Secret State may have earned the chance to avenge his dam and claim a Classic victory after scoring an impressive success in the 1m4f handicap. His odds for the Cazoo St Leger were slashed to 8-1 (from 12-1) after he defied top weight to complete a four-timer. In 2010, Jacqueline Quest sprang a huge shock when passing the post first in the 1000…

Every September, crowds flock to Doncaster Racecourse to experience the four-day Cazoo St Leger Festival; one of the premier sporting occasion of the Autumn Calendar. Culminating in the Cazoo St Leger Stakes on the Saturday, this historic race- and has been won by some legendary horses and jockeys through the decades. This year, it takes place…

The final classic of the Flat season is run at Doncaster. Can the hot favourite Hurricane Lane be defeated by one of the other runners? Here is our big race guide Hurricane Lane is a red hot favourite to win the world's oldest classic at Doncaster on Saturday. The Godolphin-owned colt has tasted defeat just one in six career starts and heads to…

Dalaika, shown winning the Grade I Beverly D. at Churchill Downs, returns for the $1 million Kentucky Downs Ladies Turf on Saturday. Photo courtesy of Churchill Downs Sept. 9 (UPI) -- It's all about the turf in weekend horse racing with Kentucky Downs staging an extravaganza unmatched anywhere in North America short of the Breeders' Cup World…

New London earned quotes for the Cazoo St Leger with a dominant display in the bet365 Handicap at Newmarket. Charlie Appleby's colt was last seen being sent off an odds-on favourite for the Chester Vase 65 days ago, where he ran no sort of race behind Aidan O'Brien's Changingoftheguard, who went on to be fifth in the Derby and won the King Edward…

Under predictably sombre conditions at Doncaster, Eldar Eldarov secured a second St Leger victory for trainer Roger Varian. Testing going ensured it was always going to be an attritional contest and David Egan's mount saw it out best of the nine that faced the starter. The race was predictably not without incident with second placed Haskoy…

Jockey Rossa Ryan reckons the Cazoo St Leger will be tailor-made for Mojo Star as he bids to upset odds-on favourite Hurricane Lane in the final Classic of the Flat season at Doncaster on Saturday. Charlie Appleby-trained Hurricane Lane has never raced beyond a mile and a half so the one mile, six furlongs and 115 yards of Sunday's race will take…

Yesyes gets the vote in the Group 2 Coral Park Hill Fillies' Stakes on day two of Doncaster's big fixture. New London is set to start a hot favourite for the feature Cazoo St Leger on Saturday Urban Artist runs in the Group 2 Coral Park Hill Fillies' Stakes YESYES is fancied to go two places better than her third of 12 months ago in the Group 2…

Irish Derby and Grand Prix de Paris winner Hurricane Lane faces nine rivals in the Cazoo St Leger (3.35) at Doncaster on Saturday. The Charlie Appleby-trained colt, whose sole defeat came when third in the Derby, seeks a hat-trick of Group 1 wins and is an odds-on favourite to land British racing's oldest Classic. Hurricane Lane is ridden by…

Highbank and Jack Mitchell return after winning the opener Saturday: Newmarket Godolphin's 750000gns purchase Highbank earned an opening quote of 33-1 and was quickly shortened to 20-1 for next year's Qipco 2000 Guineas after an ultra-impressive debut. The Charlie Appleby-trained juvenile, a son of Kingman and half-brother to former stablemate Bay…

HASKOY (3.55, nb) is fancied to defend her unbeaten record to land the final Classic of the 2022, the Cazoo St Leger at Doncaster on Sunday. New London will go off a hot favourite to follow Charlie Appleby stablemate Hurricane Lane's victory in the race 12 months ago. But Haskoy has come a long way in a short space of time under trainer Ralph…

The Cazoo St Leger might be one of the most exacting tests of stamina in the Flat racing calendar and it could be won by a trainer who is conducting his career at a sprint. If Hoo Ya Mal can land the rescheduled final Classic of the season at Doncaster tomorrow on what will be a poignant day's racing following the death of the Queen, it will be a…

The four-year-old, who is unbeaten in a ten-race career, will retire to stud after he contests the £1.3 million race over 1m2f, ten years after Frankel bowed out with victory in the 2012 QIPCO Champion Stakes with a record of 14 wins out of 14. After today's scratching stage for the QIPCO Champion Stakes, the Shadwell Estate Company-owned Baaeed is…

I'm sitting writing to you from North Yorkshire. I'm on my travels for Sky Sports Racing and have tied it in with a trip to visit my good friends, Jedd and Andrea O'Keeffe, who train racehorses on the edge of Middleham. As I type, I can hear the morning routines of a racing yard as the horses are fed before dawn, it's a comforting and familiar…

Presenter Mike Cattermole gives his expert verdict on the final British Classic of the year and Doncaster's Saturday feature, the Cazoo St Leger, live on Sky Sports Racing. As autumn arrives, so it's time for the world's oldest Classic, the Cazoo St Leger, first run in 1776 and pre-dating the Derby by some four years. Nobody can claim that this…

Varian, who won the race with Kingston Hill in 2014, said "We're delighted with Eldar Eldarov. He seems in great condition. He's had a very smooth training schedule over the last six weeks or so. Since he ran in Paris everything has gone well. His works been good and he looks incredibly well in his coat and condition. One more strong workout this…

The final Classic of the season, the Cazoo St Leger, will feature a maximum of 11 runners on Saturday. Like this season's Derby and Oaks, there are no previous Group One winners in the line-up. I'd imagine that represents some kind of record. The extended 1m 6f trip often presents an unknown for many of the contenders but several of this year's…

The son of Mastercraftsman looked a force when scooting to a five-length success in the racingtv.com Handicap over a mile and three-quarters, and appears to be quickly rising up the ranks. Though a general 33/1 chance for the final British Classic of the season on September 10, Botti will adhere to the wishes of the colt's owners, Scuderia La Tesa…