BONDI BEACH WON the St Leger for Aidan O’Brien amid post-race drama and controversy at Doncaster.
Simple Verse, an 8/1 outsider, appeared to have held on for a thrilling win in the season’s final classic but the stewards reversed the placings following an enquiry.
Ralph Beckett’s filly was ruled to have barged as the horses fought for position in the final furlong.
There could still be more drama to follow as Beckett promised that an appeal was “absolutely certain.”
Another O’Brien runner, Fields of Athenry (10/3), finished third.
“I’m delighted,” O’Brien told AtTheRaces after the 2/1 joint favourite, ridden by Colm O’Donoghue, gave him his fifth St Leger win.
But he conceded: “You’re always sorry to get a race like that.
I think it was a little bit messy up the straight and Colm gave him a great ride. He’s a brave horse.
“There was no doubt he was running back at the line.
“I’m sorry for connections of the second, but we’re delighted that he won.”
Credit to the Ghana supporters for not retaliating
Was the rioting sponsored by Evian or something? Haven’t seen that many bottles of water on a football pitch since Stevie Staunton & co took on the June Orlando sun…
Disgraceful scenes. FIFA must crack down on this violence.
They wont come down too hard as Sepp Blatter probably gets a regular vote from countries like Equatorial Guinea . Its why Africa ridiculously get to have this competition every year now.
It’s held every 2 years and incidents like this are rare. Better competition than World Cup and Euros.
Get the bread van
I thought my trocraire box money was to feed the hungry Africans,these lads throwing bottles of water whilst buying tickets to the soccer,disgraceful
Where is my comment
There
I don’t know what a tracker mortgage is?
Are those my feet?
#Distruption?
Those are Fake Hands…m
I’m elvis
On a side note equatorial Guinea shouldn’t have even been in the semi, it was never a penalty against Tunisia. There was a foul smell of the ref trying anything to get them through