FRANKIE POISED TO RIDE O’BRIEN MOUNT IN LEGER

FRANKIE DETTORI is being lined up to ride Aidan O’Brien’s Irish Derby winner Santiago in the Pertemps St Leger at Doncaster a week on Saturday. O’Brien needs all his riding team for the Irish Champions meetings at Leopardstown and the Curragh that weekend where his Britishbased No 1 jockey Ryan Moore will also ride after a two-week quarantine period. That leaves Dettori poised to pick up the mount, the 11-4 second favourite, for the final Classic of the season. O’Brien said: ‘We have spoken to Frankie and he is going to be there for the Leger which is great for us. ‘I imagine we will have to use British jockeys as we need the lads here.’ Dettori won the 2005 St Leger for O’Brien on Scorpion. O’Brien has ruled Irish Derby runner-up Tiger Moth out of the St Leger but could run Irish Derby third Dawn Patrol and Mythical.