Simple Verse out to show she possesses all her old magic

Simple Verse won two Group 1s last autumn, including the St LegerCredit: Mark Cranham

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Twelve months ago Simple Verse held off Bondi Beach to win the St Leger for Ralph Beckett and Andrea Atzeni. A little less than two weeks later she won it again, and for good this time, after a successful appeal against the inquiry that resulted in her being demoted to second in the stewards' room.

Any sense of dissatisfaction with the affair was washed away by Simple Verse herself later in the autumn, as she won the British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes at Ascot, confirming her position as a top-class middle-distance filly.

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Keith MelroseBetting editor

Published on 7 September 2016inSt Leger festival

Last updated 14:57, 7 September 2016

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