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
St Leger St Leger, 1st Viscount Doneraile several other members of his family, he served in the Irish House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for Doneraile, sitting between 1749 and 1776. On 2 July 1776, St Leger was created Baron Doneraile in the Peerage of Ireland. On 5 January 1785, he was created Viscount Doneraile, of Doneraile in County Cork, the title previously held by his maternal relations. He married Mary Barry, the daughter of Redmond Barry, and together they had six children, including Hayes St Leger, 2nd Viscount. St Leger St Leger, 1st Viscount Doneraile St Leger St Leger, 1st Viscount Doneraile (born St