The St Leger Festival's Gents' Day card kicks off with genuine quality, and Nabati lines up in the Listed Betfred Flying Scotsman Stakes off the back of two wins in his last three starts. William Buick takes the ride for Charlie Appleby. At 6/4, he is today's NAP.
The Form
A recent line of 1-2-1 shows a colt who has been consistently competitive at a high level — two wins either side of a single second, with nothing resembling a below-par effort in that sequence. He's already proven he handles today's trip, and an official rating of 104 is a genuinely strong mark for a two-year-old, placing him firmly among the leading juveniles of his generation.
Race and Conditions
Today's contest is a Class 1 Listed race over 7 furlongs on good to soft ground at Doncaster, worth £36,862 to the winner — a significant prize and a race that regularly attracts some of the better juveniles around, fitting company for a festival card of this stature. He returns 35 days on from his last win, a sensible gap that points to a horse being managed carefully through a big season rather than rushed.
The Honest Assessment
This is a genuinely clean case with fewer red flags than most selections featured here. The weight of 128lb from stall four looks entirely fair for a horse of his rating, and there's no lengthy absence or notable form dip to account for. If there's a caveat at all, it's simply that a Listed field can still throw up an unexposed type capable of running to a higher level than seen so far — the nature of two-year-old racing generally. Beyond that general uncertainty inherent to any juvenile contest, there isn't a specific concern here that needs flagging in the way there has been with several other selections this week.
The Connections
Charlie Appleby trains from Newmarket in Suffolk, and the yard's form is excellent — 35% winners from 17 runners over the last fortnight, comfortably one of the strongest strike rates featured on any selection recently. William Buick takes the ride, one of the most accomplished jockeys in the sport, and the pairing of a red-hot yard with a top-tier rider on a horse with this level of form is about as strong a combination as this feature sees.
The Bottom Line
Two wins from his last three starts, a strong rating for his age, a sensible turnaround, and a yard firing on all cylinders make this one of the more straightforward cases presented this week. At 6/4, Nabati is today's NAP, fitting company for the opening feature of Gents' Day at the 250th St Leger Festival.
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