REBEL SOLDIER may have landed the Betfair Gordon Stakes but unlike another Jeremy Noseda-trained winner the Ladbrokes St Leger doesn’t appear on the agenda.
Noseda won the Group Three at Glorious Goodwood in 2006 with Sixties Icon, who went on to Classic glory at Doncaster later that season. But his latest winner Rebel Soldier looks unlikely to take a similar route with concerns over his stamina.
The Gordon Stakes has been won for the past two years by Conduit and Harbinger and Rebel Soldier is another who could go on to better things.
Owner Earle Mack’s racing manager Fiona Shaw nominated the Breeders’ Cup Turf and Canadian International as likely targets after the 4-1 favourite just held off Dandino and Arctic Cosmos to win at Goodwood yesterday under Ryan Moore.
The Danehill Dancer colt had bypassed the John Smith’s Cup at York in favour of yesterday’s contest.
It paid off and although his St Leger odds have been trimmed to a best-priced 14-1 with Ladbrokes, Stan James and Paddy Power, Noseda said: “He is an improving horse, he has worked well at home and he has done that nicely. I think we will go on and have a crack at the Voltigeur, sadly I don’t think the St Leger is in his spectrum in terms of staying but we will see where we are after that race. He’s entered in the Leger.”
