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| Punter's Diary by Malcolm Heyhoe |
[this month's diary] 282b15
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| Updated: 1st September 2013 - GG.com |
September Rolls In
Flat racing's summer roller-coaster edges its way into autumn and pitches camp at Haydock in September for the first serious action of the month with the Betfred Sprint Cup on September 7.
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For the most part the domestic sprinters have been very much an average bunch and that has left the way clear for Clive Cox's zippy colt, Lethal Force, to land the Champion Stakes on September 7.
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Saturday September 14 brings the curtain down on the Classic action and in another poor season for three-year-old talent, John Gosden may well be the man punters turn to in the search for the St Leger winner. Gosden's Excess Knowledge should have won easily at Goodwood last time and looks the stand-out candidate among an uninspiring bunch of three-year-olds.
At the Curragh on the same day, the Irish St Leger seems sure to be just as open a race as its Doncaster equivalent, and it will be interesting to see whether Leger trial flop, Ernest Hemingway, can bounce back to form. The Curragh also stages a meeting on September 15 and Henry Candy's hugely talented Cape Peron has been pencilled in for a pop at the Solonway Stakes.
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