Improving stayer a solid alternative to the Ballydoyle battalions
Spanish Mission
William Hill St Leger
1pt win at 16-1 with William Hill
Aidan O'Brien is responsible for 20 of the 47 horses entered in the William Hill St Leger at Doncaster and has totally dominated with his middle-distance colts this season.
Bar the Dante when Japan was only just ready to run after an interrupted spring, no British horse has got anywhere near beating team Coolmore in any of the staying races for colts. It has to be long odds-on that O'Brien wins the St Leger again, but as we saw in the British, and Irish Derby, it's total guesswork as to which one of his colts will come out on top.
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