The horse racing week ahead, St Leger, Irish Champions Festival and Arc Trials
We have quite the week ahead of us in the horse racing world with the St Leger meeting at Doncaster, the Irish Champions Festival, plus Arc favourite, and my ante-post tip for the race, Look De Vega should be in action at Longchamp on Trials day as he bids to extend his unbeaten record to four in the Prix Niel.
The list of top-class horses we might see over the coming days is huge, and exciting, but there is a part of me that wishes they could organise these meetings slightly better. To have massive meetings in England, Ireland and France all on the same weekend, with Pattern racing galore, does seem crazy to me; surely one of them could have been last weekend or the weekend after......Anyhow it is what it is and does give us plenty to look forward to.We still have fifteen in the final Classic of the season the St Leger at the time of writing on Monday morning including Grosvenor Square, one I suggested at the start of the campaign on the Dirty Dozen page that might prove to be a St Leger colt. His trainer Aidan O'Brien has nine of the fifteen left in though so you can expect a few to come out and jockeys are yet to be confirmed.
Along with the plethora of Group races ahead of us we have a number of big handicaps to look forward to and Treasure Time, the three-year-old gelding I hold a handful of shares in with RaceShare, is due to line-up all being well in the mile Cepac 25th Year Anniversary Handicap on St Leger day. Following his victory at York he is up to an OR of 94 and a big run is again hoped for.
Unsurprisingly I am not getting overly involved in anything early this week as most of my time will be spent over the next few days going over the form for the action later in the week and over the weekend. It really is a HUGE few days of horse racing so do check back as the week goes on for all the news and of course the tips.