2012 St Leger Saturday at Doncaster Preview Part 1

The big day is finally upon us and everybody is anxiously awaiting Camelot's big to reach thoroughbred racing immortality by becoming the first colt to win the British Triple Crown since the legendary Nijinsky back in 1970. The feature contest runs in the middle of the card at 3:40 when the top three-year-old stayers in Europe will go 1m6f132y over going that continues to be listed as good.

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There is over £311,000 up for grabs to the winner and, though everybody is expecting Camelot to win the race, there are absolutely no guarantees about how he'll cope with the additional two furlongs – particularly if there is a slow pace early on.

Bookmakers have seen Camelot's odds drift up to 4/9 from the 1/3 they were at across the board for much of the ante post market. It's going to be especially interesting to see how the odds swing around in the build-up to the race as punters who waited to back the three-year-old son of Montjeu could be richly rewarded.

The day's racing kicks off at 1:50 with a 1m handicap contest for mixed company rated between 0-110. Godolphin boasts a triple entry for this one and two of them go off as the high weights. Quick Wit definitely deserves some respect as he finished a very credible second place in his last outing at Newmarket – missing out by just 1/4 of a length.

Mickael Barzalona is not retained for the mount, however, and William Buick will instead get the ride with Barzalona switching over to Red Gulch, who makes his first start since the racing carnival at Meydan.

Mia's Boy has been in the mix a few times lately but just hasn't won in a while. Punters may find themselves veering towards Anderiego and had been running very competitively, with two wins on the bounce, prior to finishing eighth when sent off as the favourite at York in a similarly-rated handicap contest.

The second race of the day kicks off at 2:25 and it's a Group 2 encounter for colts & geldings. Dundonnell lines up for Juddmonte in this one and he's destined to go off as the significant favourite – especially after his quality performance in the Group 3 Acomb Stakes at York. Prior to that, he broke his maiden on the turf at Lingfield by a massive 12 lengths, coming out of the gate at a slim 1/4 price tag.