| DONCASTER ST LEGER 1901 | |||
The 126th winner of the St Leger, held on Wednesday 26th September 1901 over the Old St Leger course on Town Moor, was Doricles, a brown colt by Florizel II out of Rosalie, owned by Mr Leopold de Rothschild. A field of 13 runners contested the race, although there were 234 subscriptions of 25 sovereigns each, which was worth 5850 sovereigns. The value to the winner was £5,425. (Equivalent to £613,000 in 2017) DORICLES SR 1844 |
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| Horse | Jockey | Trainer | Owner/Betting |
| DORICLES | Kempton Cannon | Alfred Hayhoe | Mr Leopold de Rothschild 40/1 |
| VOLODYOVSKI | L Reiff |  |
Mr W C Whitney 5/6 fav |
| REVENUE | Herbert Jones | Mr John Gubbins 100/8 | |
| PIETERMARITZBURG | Morny Cannon | Mr G Faber 25/1 | |
| LORD BOBS | Sam Loates | Sir J Blundell 25/1 | |
| FORTUNATUS | Danny Maher | Mr Arthur James 10/1 | |
| IAN | J H Martin | Sir R Waldie 100/6 | |
| JACOBITE II | G Stern | M J de Bremond 10/1 | |
| PRINCESS MELTON | Otto Madden | Mr J B Joel 40/1 | |
| SYNEROS | F Finlay | Mr Vyner 100/1 | |
| VERONESE | Fred Rickaby | Mr Douglas Baird 100/8 | |
| AIDA | W Halsey | Sir J Miller 100/1 | |
| CYNICAL | R Jones | Mr A James 100/1 | |
| After a heated start the field were led in the early stages by Cynical, followed by Fortunatus and Volodyovski. After 2 furlongs Cycnical continued to lead and maintained it beyond the rifle butts, but as they entered the straight he began to drop away leaving favourite Volodyovski to take up the running on the inside. At the distance Volodyovski was challenged by Doricles and eventually succumbed by a neck in 3 minutes 8.4 seconds, with 3 lengths back to Revenue. | Over Round 109% | ||
| Note: The image above is shown courtesy of Vanity Fair and is in the public doamin because the artist died in 1922, more than 80 years ago. | |||
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