2017 St Leger Final
2017 SA ST LEGER – REVIEW
Four was the golden number for Cameron Butcher tonight at Angle Park. He won four races on the program and his up and coming chaser On Fire won the SA St Leger giving Cameron the last four St Leger Finals.
Starting the punters elect On Fire began nicely to be handy leaving the front straight with Aston Apollo flying out to lead for Troy Murray. Into second raced the Jan Jones trained Dream A Little who looked the main challenger on paper to On fire who was in third spot with the Ken Gill trained Windmill Haze moving to fourth. As the field raced down the back straight both Dream A Little and On Fire moved up ominously to Aston Apollo who was kicking on. Into the front straight both favourites cleared out and in a bobbing finish On Fire got the nod from a gallant Dream A Little with Windmill Haze running into third spot. On Fire ran a sizzling 29.75 for the 515m journey.
Cameron has taken out the last four St Leger finals with star chasers Sidney’s Shadow, Coorong Kid and last years winner Worm Burner all going on to be outstanding sprinters.