St Leger - 10 September 2011, Doncaster

wangkw · Postby **wangkw** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 6:42 am

SEA MOON
NATHANIEL
BLUE BUNTING
CENSUS
TREASURE BEACH
MASKED MARVEL
BROWN PANTHER

The final leg of the classic for 3 year old in UK will be run on Saturday, 10 September.

The field this year is likely to witness near capacity with 17 runners.

Top favorite is Sea Moon, which won the last 3 races from 4 starts this year. His last win was sealed in the G2 12f Great Voltigeur
early this month at York, beating the nearest Al Kazeem by 8 lengths. The 2 other wins were both listed races.

Next is NATHANIEL...which has just beaten Workforce in the G1 12f King George by 2&3/4 lengths in a field of only 5. The only
other graded race he has won is the G2 12f King Edward VII, beating 9 others by 5 lengths and up... His dad is none other than
the mighty Galileo.

BLUE BUNTING is the 3rd choice. She won both the G1 12f Yorkshire Oaks and the similar Irish Oaks...Son of Dynaformer.

Treasure Beach is the winner of both the G110f Secretariat Stakes and the G1 12f Irish Derby. Just missed the prestigeous UK
Derby Stakes by a nose. Guess who his sugar daddy is ?

CENSUS won the G3 13f Geoffrey Freer and was 2nd in the G3 13f Bahrain Trophy.

Jorge · Postby **Jorge** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 9:32 pm

Their pedigrees:

Sea Moon http://www.pedigreequery.com/sea+moon2
Blue Bunting http://www.pedigreequery.com/blue+bunting

wangkw · Postby **wangkw** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 7:40 am

1 3 Masked Marvel 15/2 3 9-0 John Gosden 109 * *
b c Montjeu (IRE) - Waldmark (GER) (Mark Of Esteem) William Buick
Held up in touch, smooth headway over 4f out, close up 3f out, ridden to lead 1 1/2f out, clear inside final furlong, stayed on strongly (op 7-1)

« 2 2 3 Brown Panther 15/2 3 9-0 Tom Dascombe 115 * *
b c Shirocco (GER) - Treble Heights (IRE) (Unfuwain) Kieren Fallon
Towards rear and niggled along 10f out, pushed along over 5f out, ridden and headway 3f out, driven 2f out, kept on to chase winner inside final furlong, no impression (op 10-1)

« 3 1 ½ Sea Moon 2/1F 3 9-0 Sir Michael Stoute 121 * *
b c Beat Hollow - Eva Luna (USA) (Alleged) Olivier Peslier
Held up in rear, headway over 3f out, effort on inner to chase leaders 2f out and soon not much room, no clear run and hampered over 1f out, switched right and ridden entering final furlong, kept on (op 15-8)

« 4 5 1½ Seville (GER) 17/2 3 9-0 A P O'Brien 120 * *
b c Galileo (IRE) - Silverskaya (USA) (Silver Hawk) J P O'Brien
Tracked leading pair, headway over 4f out, soon close up, led well over 2f out, soon ridden, headed and driven 1 1/2f out, soon one pace (op 8-1 tchd 10-1)

« 5 9 2½ Census (IRE) 11/2 3 9-0 Richard Hannon 117 * *
b c Cacique (IRE) - Slieve (Selkirk) Richard Hughes
Held up in rear, niggled along over 6f out, headway on outer over 3f out, ridden over 2f out, driven well over 1f out and one pace (op 5-1)

« 6 7 6 Blue Bunting (USA) 7/2 3 8-11 Mahmood Al Zarooni 118 * *
gr/ro f Dynaformer (USA) - Miarixa (FR) (Linamix) Frankie Dettori
Held up and behind, some headway over 3f out, soon ridden along and never a factor (op 10-3 tchd 3-1)

« 7 6 8 Buthelezi (USA) 40/1 3 9-0 h1 John Gosden 105 * *
b/br c Dynaformer (USA) - Ntombi (USA) (Quiet American) Robert Havlin
Soon led and set strong pace, ridden along 4f out, driven over 3f out, soon headed and weakened (op 50-1)

« 8 4 12 Genius Beast (USA) 25/1 3 9-0 Mahmood Al Zarooni 110 * *
b c Kingmambo (USA) - Shawanda (IRE) (Sinndar) Silvestre De Sousa
Chased leaders on inner, ridden along over 4f out and soon weakened (op 33-1)

« 9 8 15 Rumh (GER) 100/1 3 8-11 Saeed Bin Suroor 103 * *
ch f Monsun (GER) - Royal Dubai (GER) (Dashing Blade) Richard Hills
Chased leader, close up over 5f out, driven along 4f out, soon weakened

9 ran TIME 3m 0.44s (fast by 5.36s)

wangkw · Postby **wangkw** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 8:29 am

UK sister St Leger in curragh for 3 yo and up ended in a deadheat :

1 3 Duncan 5/1 6 9-11 John Gosden — * *
b g Dalakhani (IRE) - Dolores (Danehill) Eddie Ahern
Tracked leader in 2nd, challenged and on terms from 2f out, stayed on well under pressure, dead-heated (op 9/2)

« 1 1 dht Jukebox Jury (IRE) 4/1 5 9-11 Mark Johnston — * *
gr h Montjeu (IRE) - Mare Aux Fees (Kenmare) J Murtagh
Attempted to make all, joined from 2f out, stayed on well under pressure, dead-heated (op 9/2)

« 3 5 1 Red Cadeaux 12/1 5 9-11 Ed Dunlop — * *
ch g Cadeaux Genereux - Artisia (IRE) (Peintre Celebre) Tom McLaughlin
Chased leaders, mainly in 4th, under pressure from 5f out, moderate 3rd under 3f out, stayed on well final furlong without getting to dead-heaters (op 12/1 tchd 11/1)

« 4 2 22 Fame And Glory 8/13F 5 9-11 A P O'Brien 120 * *
b h Montjeu (IRE) - Gryada (Shirley Heights) Jamie Spencer
Tracked leaders in 3rd, struggling from before straight, dropped to moderate 4th under 3f out, no extra (op 8/11)

« 5 6 9 Waydownsouth (IRE) 100/1 4 9-11 Patrick J Flynn 101 * *
b g Chevalier (IRE) - Ruffit (IRE) (Revoque) D M Grant
Raced last of the 6, struggling from over 5f out, soon no impression

« 6 4 3¾ Fictional Account (IRE) 14/1 6 9-8 V C Ward 103 * *
ch m Stravinsky (USA) - Romantic Venture (IRE) (Indian Ridge) F M Berry
Raced 5th of the 6 for much, no extra from before straight

6 ran TIME 3m 8.00s.

wangkw · Postby **wangkw** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 4:59 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IakkfNVgBKc

MM the winner had the field day for sure. Was Sea Moon trapped at all ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR7Q2mJqFvk

Shergar · Postby **Shergar** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 7:23 pm

Bettina · Postby **Bettina** » Sun Sep 11, 2011 4:55 am

Hello,
Masked Marvel, the St. Leger winner is a close relative of the German Derby winner Waldpark (by Dubawi) out of the Champion mare Wurftaube.

Regards, Bettina

parlo · Postby **parlo** » Sun Sep 11, 2011 8:35 am

Not to forget second placed Brown Panther by Shirocco by Monsun, who was favourite for the German Derby, but finished only 5th due to the aggressive tactics chosen by his young rider, who chose to do it from start to finish and was beaten some 300 m from the winning post.

Patuxet · Postby **Patuxet** » Sun Sep 11, 2011 4:23 pm

Video of the St. Leger: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IakkfNVgBKc

Masked Marvel, under William Buick, won an incredible St. Leger today. The 14-furlong classic at Doncaster was marked by an incredulously quick early pace that took the legs off most of the runners and rewarded the one that had the pedigree to stay the trip under the most testing of trips, head winds, and pace scenarios. The result was a new course record. The three-year-old colt is a son of Montjeu from a German-bred mare and is a product of Sadler’s Wells/Darshaan.

parlo · Postby **parlo** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 12:35 am

This video is easierly available:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IakkfNVgBKc

Not to forget: Masked Marvel did it in record-time: 3:00,4 min for 1 m 6 f 132 y = 2,937 m.

wangkw · Postby **wangkw** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 8:38 pm

wangkw · Postby **wangkw** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 11:40 pm

You r sharp pal...actually it was not only the race's fatest finish ever...it was "also" a new world record time (turf). The documented world
record for 1&3/4 miles, 2:53.35, can be extrapolated into 3:00.73 for the St Leger distance by timing the surplus 120 meters at the same
pace (more conservative than working backwards from the 2 miles record, 3:18.00) the MM's winning time in this sense was thus 0.29
second better than the "world record".

The 2nd horse was 3 lengths behind, or equivalently, 0.5-0.6 second late.