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And now, here's your host, Emmett Kennedy.

Welcome along to a special edition of the Final Furlong podcast,

where we are going to preview the first couple of days of racing at the Doncaster St. Ledger Festival.

We've got Adam Mills, as always alongside me from TPD, and making his debut on the show. We've stolen him from the Bar Stewards for one podcast.

Maybe not one only, though, hopefully to be first of many. It is Patrick Veitch's lesser-known

brother, Jack Veach. Welcome to the show. There we go. Good evening, Emmett. I can't claim to be a

relative of Patrick, but hopefully after a few winners, you think I might be. So there we go good evening Emmett I can't claim to be a relative of

Patrick but hopefully after a few winners you think I might be so there we go

you can't claim to be relative of Patrick but nobody said I can't claim that

whatsoever so how is Tony Bloom doing and his Venetian son a good thing Tony's doing

well I think he had a very good weekend didn't he would he reel off a three-timer on Saturday so yeah not that he was going well. I think he had a very good weekend, didn't he? What he real off? A three-timer on Saturday, so yeah, not that he was going poor, but I think he'll keep his head above water for another day.

And you say you're not related to Patrick Feitch.

I don't believe it, Jack, at all.

We're going to take you through some of the most interesting races over the next few days at Doncaster.

And we'll get the thoughts from the boys on the St. Ledger and the Irish Champion's stakes as well.

I've got a wild one for the Irish champion stakes, which Adam didn't laugh at actually and he didn't try to talk me out of either. So he's 33 to 1 currently. So more on that to come in a little bit. The betting for the Weatherby's scientific £300,000, two-year--old stakes, was headed by Brussels. He's drifted out

a little bit, 7-2. He's been replaced by gel pepper, who he finished in front of in the July stakes at Newmarket. More on that to come. Calendar Girl, Safie Osborne, takes over 13-2-2. Song of the Clyde has already got one of these big sales races in the bag. 13-2 shot as well. Adam, what's your thoughts on the race?

I thought this was a very hard race to pull apart.

Song of the Clyde is one that I did look at because I like the fact that when you win one sales race, you have another crack at another one, but I just thought the price was a bit short. I could see Brussels absolutely bolting up. I could also see Brussels finishing out the back of the telly. I'm not really sure what to make of that run last time. The one that I came down on is like a sort of big double figure price of Richard Hannan called Slay Queen, won the last two starts. The three-runner race at Goodwood was completely pointless, and you can't really learn a lot from that. But the time before at Newbury, I thought she produced a really good performance to win there.

Is that good enough to win a race at this level? We're not sure, but I'm getting a big price 18 to 1 at the time of recording. I really liked her closing sectionals. She had a really good

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