Enjoy the wait for final Classic as St Leger has potential to be a cracker
David Carr on how Doncaster's major race could be a blockbuster
If Robert Louis Stevenson was right that "to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive" then the Classics in this foreshortened season have left something to be desired.
The weeks of build-up, prep runs and general hoopla ahead of the traditional three-year-old tests are often as much fun – and provide a hundred times as much media content – as the races themselves.
Not this year. The spring lockdown led to the Guineas being run just days into the resumption while the pandemic-restricted programme meant there was no travelling hopefully through the Dante, Musidora, Chester Vase, Dee or Cheshire Oaks before the Derby and Oaks took place.
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