Encke ends Triple Crown hopes

Doncaster’s atmosphere switched from heightened to distinctly flat within the space of three minutes as Godolphin’s Encke extinguished hopes of Camelot achieving a rare English Triple Crown in the Ladbrokes St Leger.

It had felt almost as if Camelot was racing against the imponderables rather than the flesh and blood opposition and he was the 2-5 favourite to add the season’s final Classic to his 2000 Guineas and Derby successes.