The Weekend Winners team return to discuss their top tips for Saturday at the St Leger Festival. The team paid particular attention to the feature Betfred St Leger Stakes - which goes off at 3.35pm on Saturday, live on Sky Sports Racing. Enceladus currently heads the market for Joseph O'Brien, with the Ballydoyle duo of Christmas Day and Pierre Bonnard also in situ.
Last year's winning rider Tom Marquand gets aboard Amelia Earhart, while Saffie Osborne rides Highwayman. "I'm against Christmas Day with Enceladus. He was my ante-post selection, mainly because we knew he was going to go to Doncaster after Goodwood.
He's just got this lovely, progressive staying profile rather than having already shown his hand in Classics. He's three from three in 2026, having won his maiden at Cork and the King George VI Stakes at Royal Ascot, before stepping up into Group 3 - winning the Gordon Stakes at Goodwood over just shy of a mile and a half. His Royal Ascot form has worked out really well, which is important because you could have initially dismissed him as simply being a well-handicapped horse, winning off a mark of 89.
The Gordon Stakes demonstrated he belongs in pattern company, and he finished off his race really strongly. He's by Sea The Stars and everything about his progression since being stepped up in trip suggests stamina rather than speed is increasingly becoming his strength. The step up to a mile and six and a half furlongs in the St Leger is ideal.
Comparisons have been drawn between him and Galileo Chrome, who of course won this race for Joseph O'Brien in 2020. Christmas Day - I just think with that Derby form it was a win because of the frailties of his opposition that day and the conditions. Never miss a story with all the latest racing news, interviews and features on your phone.
Find out more "I'm a Christmas Day backer. Has the favourite really got form to warrant being shorter than Christmas Day? In my book, I'm not so sure.
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