St Leger Stakes popular adage "sell in May and go away, come back on St Leger Day" suggests investors should sell their shares in May and buy again after the race. The Agatha Christie novel The ABC Murders has the St Leger as a plot point near the end of the novel. St Leger Stakes The St Leger Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies. It is run at Doncaster over a distance of 1 mile, 6 furlongs and 115 yards (2,921 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year
Ralph St Leger now lost. It depicts Ralph prone with hands together in prayer and dressed in full armour, his bare head resting on his helm atop which is the crest of St Leger, "a griffin passant". His wife Anne lies to his left, and wears an elaborate head-dress. Both persons feet rest on dogs. The Latin inscription beneath is as follows (expanded from abbreviated text): "Orate pro animabus Radulphi Sentleger Armigeri et Anne uxoris suae qui quidam Radulphus obiit undecimo die Novembriis anno domini millencimo CCCCLXX. Quorum animabus propicietur Deus Amen" ("Pray ye for the souls of Ralph Saint Leger, Esquire, and