St Leger

[kompressaur]

Is the St Leger coming up? I don't really touch the horses these days barr the odd tip from here and from pals. Speaking to an old pal i aint seen for a while yesterday who seems to be doing ok with his horses (i gave him Albania and Southend for his footy coupon:) ) He was talking about next weeks big race and had strong feelings about a horse called Percussion or something. Anyone confirm that it is the st Leger next week and that there's a horse of a similar name in the race? Anyone got any fancies themselves?

[WorkingForTheEnemy]

St Leger Yep, St Ledger Sat 11th Doncaster 3.15. Im guessing you're after Percussionist.J.Gosden trained, good form up until last race. Won a Grp 3 race over 11 furlongs by 10 lengths. Second and third in that have gone on to have respectable runs. Came 4th in the Derby over 12f, getting beaten for a place on the line. It's last run came at the Curragh (over 12f)coming last of 12. Trainers explanation was it didnt like the ground(GF, other runs have been on Gd,Sft or GS) Reading the trainers details about its Ling win in the Grp 3 race I remember watching it. The horse was well clear and then veered across the track. Would have won by about 15 lengths otherwise. Apparently it was scared of a Ch4 camera. This raised some doubts to its Derby credentials and wether it would cope with such a large crowd etc. Didnt seem to cause problems though. My main concern is that the Ledger is 2f further than its raced before but that seems to be the case for most. ID be wanting ground GS or Sft as its worse run was on GF and it was caught late on Good. Yet was pulling away from a listed horse on GS. Most bookies seem to be going around 7 - 8/1 at the mo, about 5th in the market. Two of the horses ahead of it are the only two others from the Derby, the pair that got up to beat it on the line.