Irish Leger an option for Plate favourite Flymetothestars could have the Comer Group International Irish St. Leger on his agenda should he confirm his potential in Saturday's Stobart Rail Northumberland Plate at Newcastle. The Sir Mark Prescott-trained stayer has just had the four career starts, but two of his three wins have come on Newcastle's all-weather track. The Plate has been the long-term target and part-owners Middleham Park Racing are looking forward to the big day. Middleham Park's director of racing Tim Palin explained how they came to buy the son of Sea The Stars. He said: "Sir Mark told us that Lady Bamford was going to send him to the sales and he felt the horse would have a good chance in the Northumberland Plate if we wanted to buy him. "We said we would buy him specifically with that race in mind and he's been trained for this race. "He is in the Irish St Leger because it is possible if he were to win the Northumberland Plate you'd be looking at those staying Group races. "He could be a Group horse masquerading in a handicap, we don't know that for sure. All we have seen so far is a nice, progressive, young handicapper that everyone has fallen in love with at Middleham Park. "He's favourite for the Plate and deserves to be the way he beat Endless Acres last time and that horse was second in the Ascot Stakes. Our horse wasn't fully tuned up, there is some improvement in there and we go there with a big chance. "It's a very competitive race and there have been horses laid out for it. We have and he's an improving young gun that seems to fit the bill. "Our worst nightmare would to have been drawn in the car park, but he's drawn eight so the draw gods have been reasonably kind to us and he's had a clean, uninterrupted preparation."
