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2025 St Leger Festival Class 3 1m4f Handicap Preview
Scheduled to take place in September of each year at the Doncaster racecourse is this class two handicap that is run over a distance of one mile and four furlongs, the race is open to runners aged three or older and is run during the St Leger Festival. For sponsor purposes, the race is currently known as the 'Winners Wear Skopes Menswear Handicap'.
St Leger Festival Class 3 1m4f Handicap Information:
- St Leger Festival Class 3 1m4f Handicap Past Winners
- St Leger Festival Class 3 1m4f Handicap Trainer Statistics
- St Leger Festival Class 3 1m4f Handicap Jockey Statistics
We also have a dedicated Doncaster tips page that will cover this race as well as all of the other races on the day of the race, see which runners the OLBG racing tipsters are predicting to win this race and the others on the cards. You may also be interested in other preview blogs that we have packed full of information, head down to the Other Principal races during the Doncaster St Leger Festival section for links to these.
How competitive is the St Leger Festival Class 3 1m4f Handicap market? When looking at the over-rounds for the last 13 renewals, the most competitive market was in 2019 when the race had an over-round of 107%. The race in 2024 was a race that was most in the bookie's favour with an over-round of 121%, whilst on average over the last 13 renewals of the St Leger Festival Class 3 1m4f Handicap, the over-round has been 114%, which means the bookie expects to pay out £100 for every £114 which is bet.
St Leger Festival Class 3 1m4f Handicap Trends:
- 2025 St Leger Festival Class 3 1m4f Handicap Trends
- St Leger Festival Class 3 1m4f Handicap Trend Analysis
Looking at the future form, is the winner worth following next time out? From the past 13 if you had followed the winner of the St Leger Festival Class 3 1m4f Handicap next time out then you would have backed a total of 2 winners. Backing all 11 runners who have been out since to win at SP next time out, would have returned an LSP of -3.62. Whilst we wait for the 2025 St Leger Festival Class 3 1m4f Handicap remember you can get daily racing predictions from the expert tipsters on the racing predictions page.
The runner that holds the record over the past 13 renewals for the slowest time in the race was set in the 2023 renewal when In The Breeze from Michael Appleby under the guidance of Tom Marquand, won in a time of 2:39.08, whilst at the other end of the spectrum, Swift Alhaarth, trained by Mark Johnston and ridden by Silvestre De Sousa set the quickest time of 2:27.48 in the 2011 renewal.
These are the top three quickest-run St Leger Festival Class 3 1m4f Handicap over the last 13 renewals:
- Swift Alhaarth (2:27.48) in 2011
- Viking Storm (2:28.70) in 2012
- Away He Goes (2:29.87) in 2020
St Leger Festival Class 3 1m4f Handicap Past Winners
Here are the St Leger Festival Class 3 1m4f Handicap past winners for the last 10 renewals. Each row details the year of the race, the horse which won along with the age & weight of the horse. Also detailed is the stall where the horse came from and the total number of runners in the race. The horse's trainer and the jockey at the time of winning the St Leger Festival Class 3 1m4f Handicap are also displayed, along with the starting price at which the horse was sent off.
Year | Horse (Drawn) | Info |
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2024 2:34.84 | Kildare Legend (IRE) 3yo 9-3 (7 of 13) 100/30F | Daniel Muscutt James Ferguson (GB) |
2023 2:39.08 | In The Breeze (IRE) 5yo 9-9 (7 of 9) 15/2 | Tom Marquand Michael Appleby (GB) |
2021 2:34.22 | Title (IRE) 3yo 9-7 (1 of 6) 11/10F | David Egan Roger Varian (GB) |
2020 2:29.87 | Away He Goes (IRE) 4yo 9-5 (4 of 5) 100/30 | Jim Crowley Ismail Mohammed (GB) |
2019 2:32.51 | Kitaabaat (GB) 4yo 9-4 (1 of 2) 6/4 | Andrea Atzeni David Simcock (GB) |
2018 2:33.39 | Byron Flyer (GB) 7yo 9-5 (4 of 5) 9/2 | William Buick Ian Williams (GB) |
2017 2:36.76 | Game Starter (IRE) 3yo 9-1 (2 of 6) 5/6F | Oisin Murphy Saeed bin Suroor (GB) |
2016 2:31.31 | Gold Trail (IRE) 5yo 9-12 (3 of 6) 5/1 | James Doyle Charlie Appleby (GB) |
2015 2:33.05 | Captain Morley (GB) 4yo 9-2 (1 of 7) 2/1F | Andrea Atzeni David Simcock (GB) |
2014 2:31.40 | Mount Logan (IRE) 3yo 8-10 (7 of 9) 7/4F | Andrea Atzeni Luca Cumani (GB) |
St Leger Festival Class 3 1m4f Handicap Trainer Statistics
The leading trainer in the St Leger Festival Class 3 1m4f Handicap over the last 13 renewals is David Simcock who has won the race two times with those two winners coming from Captain Morley (2015) and Kitaabaat (2019).
Here are some of the top St Leger Festival Class 3 1m4f Handicap trainer statistics over the last 13 renewals (R = Runners, W = Winners, P = Places including winners, Win LSP is based on 1pt Win and EW LSP is based on 0.5pt Win & 0.5pt Place):
Trainer | R-W-P | Win | EW |
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David Simcock | 5-2-2 | +0.50 | -1.75 |
Roger Varian | 6-1-1 | -3.90 | -3.31 |
Charles Hills | 3-1-2 | +10.00 | +6.50 |
Ian Williams | 2-1-2 | +3.50 | +4.81 |
Saeed bin Suroor | 2-1-1 | -0.17 | +0.52 |
Michael Appleby | 1-1-1 | +7.50 | +4.50 |
Charlie Appleby | 1-1-1 | +5.00 | +3.13 |
Harry Dunlop | 1-1-1 | +4.00 | +2.40 |
Ismail Mohammed | 1-1-1 | +3.33 | +2.08 |
James Ferguson | 1-1-1 | +3.33 | +2.08 |
St Leger Festival Class 3 1m4f Handicap Jockey Statistics
The leading jockey in the St Leger Festival Class 3 1m4f Handicap over the last 13 renewals is Andrea Atzeni who has won the race three times with those three winners coming from Mount Logan (2014), Captain Morley (2015) and Kitaabaat (2019).
Here are some of the top St Leger Festival Class 3 1m4f Handicap jockey statistics over the last 13 renewals (R = Runners, W = Winners, P = Places including winners, Win LSP is based on 1pt Win and EW LSP is based on 0.5pt Win & 0.5pt Place):
Jockey | R-W-P | Win | EW |
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Andrea Atzeni | 7-3-3 | +1.25 | -1.70 |
William Buick | 6-1-2 | -0.50 | +0.01 |
Silvestre De Sousa | 6-1-2 | -2.75 | -0.15 |
Jamie Spencer | 4-1-1 | +9.00 | +4.20 |
Jim Crowley | 4-1-1 | +0.33 | -0.92 |
Tom Marquand | 3-1-2 | +5.50 | +3.88 |
James Doyle | 3-1-1 | +3.00 | +2.13 |
Oisin Murphy | 3-1-1 | -1.17 | -1.48 |
Daniel Muscutt | 2-1-1 | +2.33 | +1.08 |
David Egan | 1-1-1 | +1.10 | +0.69 |
2025 St Leger Festival Class 3 1m4f Handicap Trends
Favourites finishing positions (oldest to latest): (1, 2), 6, 8, 1, 1, (2, 3), 1, 4, 2, 2, 1, 6, 1
The percentage shown is the percentage of the total number of runners who fell under that factor. High percentages are less appealing than lower ones as you would expect them to do well.
- 13 / 13 (60%) - Beaten no more -7l (LTO)
- 13 / 13 (66%) - Not on GS/STD (LTO)
- 13 / 13 (73%) - Fewer than 3 races (Higher Class)
- 13 / 13 (74%) - Won by at least ½l (Last Win)
- 13 / 13 (78%) - No bigger than 12/1
- 13 / 13 (80%) - Achieved an RPR of 85+ (LTO)
- 13 / 13 (81%) - Fewer than 18 races (Hcps)
- 13 / 13 (81%) - Achieved a TS of 44+ (Last Win)
- 13 / 13 (83%) - In a field of 5 - 13 (Last Win)
- 13 / 13 (83%) - Fewer than 2 races (30 Days)
- 13 / 13 (83%) - No bigger than 14/1 (Career Win)
- 13 / 13 (84%) - Not in a Cl2-3 (Debut)
- 13 / 13 (86%) - Ran in 3 - 29 races (Career)
- 13 / 13 (86%) - Off a break of 7 - 63 days
- 13 / 13 (87%) - Not on SFT/FM (Last Win)
Remember to use the trends listed above along with the Doncaster racing predictions to see if you can find the winner of the St Leger Festival Class 3 1m4f Handicap. if you are unaware of what trends and statistics are, how they can be used etc then head over to the OLBG Betting School and read this Stats And Trends article which will make everything much clearer.
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St Leger Festival Class 3 1m4f Handicap Trend Analysis
The trend factor which had produced 7+ winners and shows the best LSP, an LSP of +4.51 is when runners ran in a Class 4 on debut. The worst performing factor that has failed to produce a single winner is when runners ran on Good To Soft ground last time out, when backing these the trend shows a record of 0-26.
Here are the most recent winning draws along with the further placings in brackets:
- 2024: Winner in 7 (4,9) [13 Runners]
- 2023: Winner in 7 (3,10) [9 Runners]
- 2021: Winner in 1 (6) [6 Runners]
- 2020: Winner in 4 (3) [5 Runners]
- 2019: Winner in 1 [2 Runners]
The courses that have produced the most winners of the St Leger Festival Class 3 1m4f Handicap are York, Haydock, Newmarket (July) and Ascot, there has been a total number of 2 winners from each of those courses.
The race is open to both sexes with the Male runners having produced a total of 13 winners from a total of 89 runners whilst the Female runners have produced 0 winners from a total of 4 runners.
Looking over the past renewals, there is only one stallion whose offspring have been disappointed with multiple attempts but no wins in the St Leger Festival Class 3 1m4f Handicap, that stallion is Galileo who has failed to produce a winner from 6 runners.
Looking at the winning odds over the last 13 renewals, the biggest-priced winner was Forgotten Hero in 2013, winning for Charles Hills at odds of 12/1 under the guidance of Jamie Spencer. Looking at the runners at the head of the market over the last 13 renewals there have been 6 winning favourites in the race. Ahead of the 2025 St Leger Festival Class 3 1m4f Handicap why not head over to the best racing tipster page to see what the tipsters are backing today?
Other Principal races during the Doncaster St Leger Festival
Here is the schedule for the four-day St Leger Festival for races which we cover with blogs, each race will be linked to the race blog and detail last year's winner in the table below.
Thursday at St Leger Festival
There are a couple of Group 2's which take centre-stage on the opening day of the St Leger Festival, the £120k May Hill Stakes where the two-year-olds feature and then the £150k Park Hill Fillies Stakes where the older fillies compete.
Race | Last Winner | Info |
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Carrie Red Fillies Nursery | Ghost Run (GB) 2yo - 5/1 | Andrew Balding Oisin Murphy |
Doncaster 2yo Stakes | Hallasan (GB) 2yo - 15/2 | Charlie Appleby William Buick |
May Hill Stakes | Desert Flower (IRE) 2yo - 1/1 | Charlie Appleby William Buick |
Park Hill Stakes | Nakheel (FR) 3yo - 10/1 | Owen Burrows Jim Crowley |
St Leger Festival Class 3 1m4f Handicap | Kildare Legend (IRE) 3yo - 100/30 | James Ferguson Daniel Muscutt |
Friday at St Leger Festival
On Friday, the feature race of the day is the Group 2 Doncaster Cup which is part of the British Champion Series and carries a £140k purse. The Flying Childers Stakes is another race on Friday which carries a decent purse, £130k on offer for the two-year-olds.
Race | Last Winner | Info |
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Mallard Handicap | Faylaq (GB) 8yo - 18/1 | Jim Goldie Amie Waugh |
Flying Scotsman Stakes | Benevento (IRE) 2yo - 7/1 | Raphael E Freire David Egan |
Flying Childers Stakes | Aesterius (IRE) 2yo - 7/2 | Archie Watson James Doyle |
Doncaster Cup | Sweet William (IRE) 5yo - 7/4 | John & Thady Gosden Robert Havlin |
Saturday at St Leger Festival
The feature race of the festival, the St Leger takes place on Saturday, another race which is part of the British Champion Series, this Group 1 carries a purse of £700k. The three races before the St Leger all carry decent purses too, the Champagne Stakes (£150k), the Portland (£100k) and the Park Stakes (£140k).
Race | Last Winner | Info |
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Champagne Stakes | Bay City Roller (IRE) 2yo - 9/2 | George Scott Callum Shepherd |
Portland Heritage Handicap | American Affair (GB) 4yo - 4/1 | Jim Goldie Paul Mulrennan |
Park Stakes | Kinross (GB) 7yo - 11/4 | Ralph Beckett Rossa Ryan |
St Leger | Jan Brueghel (IRE) 3yo - 11/4 | A P O'Brien Sean Levey |
PJ Towey Construction Handicap | Daysofourlives (IRE) 4yo - 100/30 | Marco Botti Jack Mitchell |
St Leger Festival Class 2 Mile Handicap | Johan (GB) 7yo - 18/1 | Jack Channon Rossa Ryan |
Sunday at St Leger Festival
Sunday is a bit more low-key, only one class one race which is the £85k Sceptre Stakes for the fillies over 7f and there are also a couple of decent handicaps carrying good purses of £70k and £65k.
Race | Last Winner | Info |
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City of Doncaster Handicap | Telemark (IRE) 3yo - 12/1 | Simon & Ed Crisford Harry Davies |
Sceptre Stakes | Great Generation (IRE) 3yo - 8/1 | Marco Botti Marco Ghiani |
St Leger Festival Class 2 Sprint Handicap | Baldomero (IRE) 6yo - 10/1 | Michael Appleby Silvestre De Sousa |
Article Contributor Information
We are blessed with an excellent team of specialists and experts at OLBG. Contributing to creating and maintaining this St Leger Festival Class 3 1m4f Handicap Preview are at hand, Andy and Darren. They both work on the Horse racing tips team team looking after the tipsters and managing the tips settlement, whilst also creating and managing all of the horse racing event previews for Flat Racing.
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