Horse & Hound

‘I’m a lucky boy’

Edited by Hannah Lemieux hannah.lemieux@futurenet.com @hannah_lemieux1

JOCKEY Tom Marquand is not a great believer in luck, but he conceded that the 244th Pertemps St Leger had fallen his way after winning on Galileo Chrome, and in the process he gave trainer Joseph O’Brien a first British Classic at Doncaster on Saturday, 12 September.

For Irish apprentice Shane Crosse, who was due to ride the colt, it was a salutary lesson in

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