Kew up for last Classic of season

WEED out the alsorans and make sure you support KEW

GARDENS (Doncaster, 3.35) to land the William Hill St Leger. The son of Galileo, one of five Aidan O’Brien-trained runners in the 12-strong field, may have lost his place as favourite for the final Classic of the season but he looks the strongest on form. Ryan Moore’s mount is the only Group One winner in the race, having landed the Grand Prix de Paris in July. That win vindicated the faith O’Brien always seems to have held in Kew Gardens despite defeats in both the Lingfield Derby Trial and the Derby itself. That run put Kew Gardens on course to run in the prestigious King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot until he contracted the bug that has affected many of the horses in O’Brien’s Ballydoyle stable this summer. He returned to the track in York’s Great Voltigeur Stakes where his staying on in third place, a length-and-a-half behind today’s rival Old Persian, looked an ideal Leger trial. The way he finished suggested the extra two-and-a-half furlongs of today’s race are a positive for Kew Gardens. John Gosden’s unbeaten filly Lah Ti Dar is the obvious danger after her 10-length win in York’s Galtres Stakes. Derby runner-up Dee Ex Bee has not reached the same heights since his Epsom run and finished behind Kew Gardens in the Grand Prix de Paris.