Camelot ready for shot at immortality

On Saturday at Doncaster, Camelot faces a date with destiny when he attempts to become the first colt since Nijinsky in 1970 to land the Triple Crown.

Camelot ready for shot at immortality

When it was first mooted in early summer that the latest so-called superstar to emerge from Ballydoyle would try and emulate the great one himself and add the St Leger to the already won English 2000 Guineas and Derby, most believed it would never happen.

After all, as a son of Montjeu and with the two main English classics already tucked neatly away, there seemed little cause to go asking him to head down the stayers’ route and tackle a stamina-sapping one mile and six and a half furlongs.

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