Son Of Camelot Gains First Group Success

Leinster (4g Camelot - Black Envy, by Kingman) captured his first black-type race when winning the Group 3 Irish St. Leger Trial at the Curragh on Saturday.

The Joseph O’Brien-trained gelding was stepping up to Group company for the first time but took that in his stride to record an emphatic four-and-a-quarter-length success under Dylan Browne McMonagle.

The winning rider said: “We went a steady speed, and he was a bit in my hands all the way. I’d love if they had gone on a stride, but I just needed to get him to relax today because we were riding him forward and he was just doing too much the last couple of days.

“Today, coming back in trip and up in grade, I thought there would have been more of an even gallop on, but we did go slow again.

“I was comfortable down past the two [pole] and I just let him flow. He stays this trip well and is a good horse.”

Leinster is a homebred for Al Shira'aa Racing.