St Leger Past Winners 2006–2025: Results Table with Starting Prices and Trends

Twenty years of St Leger results provide the dataset that serious punters actually use. The full archive stretching back to 1776 has historical interest, but the modern race — with its current prize money, current training methods, and current field sizes — is a different animal from the Victorian or even the mid-twentieth-century version. The period from 2006 to 2025 captures the race as it is now: a Group 1 Classic contested by a small, elite field of three-year-old stayers, dominated by a handful of powerful stables.

This page presents the complete twenty-year results table with starting prices, going, and margins, followed by an analysis of what the odds history reveals and which trainer-jockey partnerships have proven most consistent. The data is designed for betting application, not nostalgia.

St Leger Winners 2006–2025: The Complete Recent Record

The margin column adds a layer that pure starting price data misses. Several St Legers in this period were decided by a short head or a neck — Kew Gardens in 2018, Harbour Law in 2016, Arctic Cosmos in 2010 — suggesting that the margins in this race are often tighter than the small fields would imply. When the top of the market is this concentrated in quality, a nose can separate the winner from the runner-up, and the punter who picked the wrong side of a short-head result had the right analysis but the wrong luck.

Among jockeys, the records across this twenty-year span show clear hierarchies. Bill Scott’s all-time record of nine wins dates from the nineteenth century. Lester Piggott accumulated eight across several decades. Frankie Dettori won six, three of them in this table alone (2006, 2008, 2019). Ryan Moore has ridden four winners in the last eight years, all for Aidan O’Brien, establishing himself as the go-to Leger jockey of the current era.

Starting Price Patterns: What the Odds History Tells Punters

The distribution of winning starting prices across these twenty runnings reveals a market that is moderately predictable — enough to reward informed punters, volatile enough to produce occasional shocks.

Six of the last twelve winners started as favourite or co-favourite. Ten of twelve were in the top three in the betting market. Those numbers paint a picture of a race where the market gets the broad picture right more often than not. The horse that finishes first is usually one of the horses that the betting public expected to be competitive.

But the outliers are significant. Encke at 25/1 (2012), Harbour Law at 22/1 (2016), Mastery at 14/1 (2009), and Arctic Cosmos at 12/1 (2010) — four winners at double-digit prices in the last fourteen years. That upset rate is higher than most Group 1 races and suggests that the St Leger’s small fields can produce volatile results when the favourite underperforms.

The most common winning starting price band in this dataset is 7/2 to 9/2: winners in that range include Eldar Eldarov, Kew Gardens, Leading Light, and Lucarno. The next cluster is in the 2/1 to 3/1 range (Scandinavia, Continuous, Kingston Hill). The extreme ends — odds-on (Hurricane Lane at 8/11, Logician at evens) and double-digit outsiders — account for the rest.

For punters, the practical takeaway is that the sweet spot for St Leger value sits in the 3/1 to 8/1 range. Horses at those prices are competitive enough to win but not so short that the return fails to justify the risk. Backing odds-on shots in the Leger has been profitable in the small sample — both Hurricane Lane and Logician won — but the reward barely compensates for the capital at risk. Backing outsiders is exciting when it works but unprofitable over a meaningful sample. The middle of the market is where the maths favours the punter.

Recurring Trainer-Jockey Partnerships in Recent St Legers

The most dominant trainer-jockey partnership in recent St Leger history is Aidan O’Brien and Ryan Moore. Moore has ridden three of O’Brien’s last six St Leger winners: Leading Light (2013), Capri (2017), Kew Gardens (2018), and Continuous (2023). The combination works because Moore’s riding style — patient, tactically astute, devastating when he commits — suits the demands of a staying race on a galloping track.

Tom Marquand has emerged as an intriguing secondary figure. His two St Leger victories came for two different O’Brien stables: Galileo Chrome for Joseph O’Brien in 2020, and Scandinavia for Aidan O’Brien in 2025. As the Doncaster Free Press noted, Marquand’s second victory came before a crowd of more than 26,000 — a markedly different atmosphere from his first, which took place during the restricted-attendance Covid season. Marquand’s versatility and willingness to ride for the O’Brien operation when Moore is committed elsewhere make him a jockey to respect in any future St Leger.

John Gosden and Frankie Dettori combined for Conduit (2008) and Logician (2019), a partnership that produced some of the most visually impressive St Leger performances of the modern era. Gosden also trained Masked Marvel (2011) and Arctic Cosmos (2010) with William Buick in the saddle, and Lucarno (2007) with Jimmy Fortune. Four St Leger winners across four different jockeys underscores Gosden’s ability to prepare horses for the race regardless of who rides them.

Roger Varian, with Kingston Hill (2014) and Eldar Eldarov (2022), has proven himself a consistent St Leger threat. His partnership with Andrea Atzeni delivered Kingston Hill’s victory in 2014. Varian’s record suggests he targets the Leger specifically and knows how to prepare a horse for the unique demands of the distance.

For punters, the recurring partnerships matter because they indicate horses with a genuine campaign behind them. An O’Brien runner with Moore booked has a proven system delivering it. A Varian runner with an experienced jockey aboard has a trainer who knows the race. These are not guarantees, but they are structural advantages that the market sometimes underprices.