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St Leger |
Godolphin & Ballydoyle Triple Handed for St Leger Godolphin will be triple-handed in Saturday's Ladbrokes St Leger at Doncaster after Rumh was supplemented at the six-day-entry stage, and there were a surprising three left in from Aidan O'Brien, who was expected to only field Seville. In total 11 horses go forward to the 1m6f contest, worth £540,000 in total prize money. Blue Bunting, winner of the Qipco 1000 Guineas and the Irish and Yorkshire Oaks, will also be joined by the fellow Mahmood Al Zarooni-trained Genius Beast. Ante-post favourite Sea Moon is firmly on target after his Great Voltigeur win, whilst John Gosden saddles Masked Marvel along with Buthelezi. Aidan O'Brien last won the race with Scorpion in 2005 and will this year rely on Epsom Oaks runner-up Wonder Of Wonders, along with Irish Derby runner-up Seville and stablemate Freedom. "We thought she wanted better ground, but we are going to wait and see as she also has the option of dropping back to a mile and a quarter at Longchamp. "Misty For Me might go back for that race (Prix de l'Opera), so we'll have a look later in the week and see. She's only a possible. With Freedom, we were going to see how the race made up and see if there was enough pace for everyone. It looks like there will be plenty of pace so he might not go, but that's by no means certain." Tom Dascombe spoke of the heart-wrenching decision taken to replace Richard Kingscote with Kieren Fallon for the ride on Brown Panther. Kingscote has been with Dascombe since the early days in Lambourn and has remained his first jockey after the trainer upped sticks to footballer Michael Owen's stable in Cheshire. Kingscote has been on board for each of Brown Panther's seven starts, from a good win in the King George V Handicap at Royal Ascot to a luckless run in the German Derby, and in his most recent outing, when second to weekend rival Census in the Geoffrey Freer at Newbury. The Leger is the only one of the British Classics Fallon has not collected, managing two seconds from five previous attempts, but his big-race know-how was the cause of the change in plan. Dascombe said: "It has been a very tough, hard decision to make, but I spoke to Michael at length and it was decided on this occasion to go for a more experienced jockey. It has not been an easy decision, but it is the one we have come to. Richard has done a very good job for me, we just thought on this occasion that you don't get too many chances to win a Classic." Fallon will head to Town Moor on Saturday in good spirits after having also been confirmed to ride Red Duke in the Champagne Stakes and York Glory in the Portland Handicap.
Ladbrokes St Leger Stakes (Group 1)
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