Laura’s Leger stunner

Harbour L aw silenced punters at Doncaster with a 22-1 shock success in the St Leger.

Laura Mongan’s colt was held up by George Baker as Muntahaa and Sword Fighter battled it out for the lead before fading on the turn for home.

Red hot 4- 6 favourite Idaho was making eyecatching headway when slipping and unseating Seamie Heffernan three out which apparently left Ventura Storm (14-1) and Housesofparliament (7-1) to fight out the finish.

However, Baker had yet to play his cards and Harbour Law came with a powerful run in the final furlong to score going away by three-quarters of a length from Ventura Storm.

Mongan, the first woman to train the winner of the oldest Classic, said: “That was brilliant, he’s a classy horse but it was a bit of a shock still.

“It was a professional performance from the horse, we knew he was going to go somewhere in life and he has.”

Heffernan was taken to hospital for precautionary checks after his mishap.

At Leopa rdstown, French raider Almanzor (7-1) stormed home in the Irish Champion Stakes.

Christophe Soumillon was content to bide his time on Jean- Claude Rouget’s colt but finished

with a flourish to overpower solid yardstick Found (7-1) by a length.

Minding ( 9 - 4) ran another excellent race in third while dual Derby hero Harzand (2-1 Fav) probably needed the run in eighth.

An impressed William Hill slashed Almanzor to 5-1 from 16s for the Arc at Chantilly on October 2.

Earlier, Alice Springs (5-1) put some classy rivals to the sword with a threelength win under Ryan Moore in the Matron.