Simple Verse has been reinstated as the St Leger winner, following a three-hour hearing at which her connections appealed against the fact that she was disqualified and placed second by the Doncaster stewards
Simple Verse confirmed her status as arguably the leading staying filly of her generation with her remarkable run in Saturday’s classic, the final leg of the British Triple Crown
“It’s great. I don’t know what to say. It’s a dream really. It’s unbelievable. I rode him like the best horse in the race. He travelled brilliant and he is so laid back he just goes to sleep. When I pulled him out he was always going to get there.”
James McDonald closed a highly successful short-term stint in Hong Kong with a quartet at Sha Tin on Sunday
