Moment of truth for St Nicholas Abbey

SATURDAY will reveal a lot about St Nicholas Abbey.

Thu, 22 Oct, 2009 - 01:00
Pat Keane
Pat Keane

Aidan O’Brien’s colt is set to run in the Group 1 Racing Post Trophy at Doncaster and it will be his first real test.

Favourite for the Epsom Derby, he is already very much a hype horse, mainly due to the waffling of a member or two of the press corps and the mutterings of some of those bookmakers’ representatives.

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