| DONCASTER ST LEGER 1982 | |||
The 206th winner of the St Leger, held on Saturday 11th September 1982 over 1 mile 6 furlongs and 132 yards of Town Moor, was Touching Wood, a brown colt by Roberto out of Mandera, owned by Maktoum Al Maktoum. A field of 16 runners contested the race which was worth £100,000. (Equivalent to £353,000 in 2017) The Youtube link below, supplied by World of Sport, is a 3 minute 39 second clip of the 1982 race TOUCHING WOOD SR 1966 |
|||
| Horse | Jockey | Trainer | Owner/Betting |
| TOUCHING WOOD | Paul Cook | Harry Thomson Jones | Maktoum Al Maktoum 7/1 |
| ZILOS | Geoff Baxter | Bruce Hobbs | Mrs H Cambanis |
| DIAMOND SHOAL | John Matthias | Ian Balding | Mr Paul Mellon |
| BORN HERO | Billy Newnes | Henry Candy |  |
| BROKEN RAIL | Willie Carson | W R Hern | |
| CHEM | Alain Lequeux | Olivier Douieb | |
| ELECTRIC | Walter Swinburn | Michael Stoute | |
| JALMOOD | Lester Piggott | John Dunlop | |
| KHAIPOUR | John Reid | R Houghton | |
| LE MAIN JAUNE | H Samani | Francois Mathet | |
| MUSLAB | Terry Rogers | H Thomson Jones | |
| NORWICK | Greville Starkey | Guy Harwood | |
| PALACE GOLD | Tony Ives | W O'Gorman | |
| RIVELLING | Ernie Johnson | John Oxx | |
| ROCAMADOUR | Edward Hide | Arthur Pitt | |
| LAST FEATHER | Steve Cauthen | Barry Hills | |
| The winner won by a length and a half in 3 minutes 3.53 seconds, with a further two and a half lengths back to the third. In a 9 race career Touching Wood won 3 and was second four times. | Over Round N/A | ||
| Note: The image above is in the public domain in the United Arab Emirates. | |||
 |
 |
 |
 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ISBN 978-0-9957632-0-3 652 pages 774 former courses |
ISBN 978-0-9957632-1-0 352 pages 400 former courses |
ISBN 978-0-9957632-2-7 180 pages 140 former courses |
ISBN 978-0-9957632-3-4 264 pages 235 former courses |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Copies of the above books are only available by emailing johnwslusar@gmail.com stating your requirements, method of payment (cheque payable to W.Slusar) or Bank transfer, and the address where the book(s) should be sent. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||