The legendary Henry Cecil has been able to score on four separate occasions. Main Reef was the winner in 1979 and it was Upend that saw the same trainer in the winners’ enclosure in 1988 before Wellbeing was on target in 2000. High Pitched was victorious a year later to score the 2001 St Simon Stakes.
As far as horse racing betting trends go, there have been a mixture of different-aged winners for this Newbury Racecourse encounter. Max Vega was the 2022 winner as a five-year-old and he followed in the footsteps of the four-year-old victor Ilaraab. The latter was trained by William Haggas and the former obliged courtesy of Ralph Beckett.
Not many seven-year-olds have been winners when it has come to the recent running of the St Simon Stakes, although Euchen Glen was able to score in the 2020 renewal at that particular age.
It is worth considering an each-way bet on this horse race, with a seven pound penalty in place for any Group 1 winner, with five pounds penalty for Group 2 winners and three pounds for any horse that has won a Group 3 encounter.
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