Next year’s classics starting to look like a Ballydoyle benefit

SO now we know. Heading to Doncaster on Saturday, St Nicholas Abbey was no more than a promising colt.

Then he proceeded to demolish the opposition, in the Racing Post Trophy and, suddenly, there were those who believed another Sea The Stars had been born.

That’s a bit of an exaggeration, but one has to say there is a real possibility of St Nicholas Abbey heading down a similar road to the great one all the same.