WEST AUSTRALIAN
David Cormack on West Australian, a great horse of the past

A2,000 Guineas winner who follows up in the Derby opens the door to the immortality offered to the horse that can then win the St Leger and complete the Triple Crown. Nijinsky was the last to achieve the feat in 1970. It’s 49 years on now and none have managed the epic task since.
The last to travel to Doncaster with a chance of doing so was Aidan O’Brien’s Camelot in 2012 but he was beaten into second by Encke, whose win was later tarnished as he was implicated in the doping scandal that engulfed ...