Eight Confirmed for St Leger, Scandinavia and Lambourn Lead Ballydoyle Challenge

[Wandering Eyes]

Ante-post favourite Scandinavia (Justify) and dual Derby hero Lambourn (Australia) headline eight confirmations for Saturday's G1 Betfred St Leger at Doncaster.

The pair are both trained by Aidan O'Brien, who is responsible for half of the possible runners in the final Classic of the season, with Stay True (Galileo) and likely outsider Saratoga (Camelot) also featuring.

Scandinavia will be back against his own age group on Town Moor, after beating his older rivals in the G1 Goodwood Cup last time, while Lambourn needs to bounce back from a below-par display when finishing only fifth in the G2 Great Voltigeur Stakes at York. Stay True, who finished one place ahead of Lambourn on the Knavesmire, gives the Ballydoyle handler a live third option.

Carmers filled the runner-up spot behind Pride Of Arras (New Bay) in the Voltigeur and makes up the potential Irish challenge for Paddy Twomey. The son of Wootton Bassett previously won the G3 Queen's Vase at Royal Ascot, beating the subsequent G3 Geoffrey Freer Stakes scorer Furthur (Waldgeist) by three quarters of a length. Andrew Balding's Furthur is set to reoppose on Saturday, along with stablemate Tarriance (Frankel), who faces a significant step up in grade after winning York's Melrose Handicap

The Roger Varian-trained Rahiebb (Frankel), who finished fourth in the G3 Gordon Stakes at Goodwood last time, after a close-up third in the Queen's Vase, completes the list of possibles.

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