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
Barry St. Leger He was also involved in the secret negotiations between Frederick Haldimand, Quebec's governor, and the Vermont Republic's leaders over the possibility of bringing Vermont into the British fold. These negotiations ended with the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. Following the war he remained in Quebec, and briefly commanded the British forces there in 1784. He resigned his commission the following year due to ill health, and died in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England. His Will was proved on the 14th February 1794 at the PCC London by Frances St. Leger, widow. Barry St. Leger Barrimore Matthew "Barry" St. Leger (bap. 1 May