Horse & Hound

Hurricane storms to St Leger success

jennifer.donald@futurenet.com

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Cazoo St Leger Festival, Doncaster Racecourse, S Yorks

HURRICANE LANE became the 245th winner of the Cazoo St Leger on Saturday with a 2¾-length defeat of Mojo Star, further strengthening his position as one of the best colts of the Classic generation.

In recent years Charlie Appleby’s Frankel colt would have, in winning the Dante, the Irish Derby, Grand Prix de Paris (by six lengths) and now the StLeger, been a certainty for the top middle-distance colt of his generation. But, as we come to the end of what has been a vintage season for

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