Tompkins eyes Spring Cup with Petersburg

ST PETERSBURG found just one too good for him on his seasonal bow at Doncaster, but he showed the way home under Philip Robinson in the Pontefract Park Handicap yesterday and is set to step up in class.

Travelling well throughout at the West Yorkshire track, St Petersburg quickened up in good style to lead about a furlong and a half from home and drew away to beat The Bonus King by four lengths.

Trainer Mark Tompkins said: “St Petersburg was unlucky to come up against the horse of Geoff Wragg’s (Autumn Glory) in the Spring Mile at Doncaster. That one is a very nice horse.