Twilight Payment returned to the winners' enclosure for the first time since last year's Melbourne Cup with a spirited performance in the €50,000 Irish St Leger Trial (2816m) at the Curragh on Friday. Declan McDonogh settled Twilight Payment in the box-seat and when the leaders surrendered their advantage at the 700-metre mark, Twilight Payment found himself in the lead. The Joseph O'Brien-trained Twilight Payment ($6) maintained his advantage thereafter, holding off Princess

British National Hunt breeding has landed a coup with the acquisition of the 2019 St Leger winner Logician. The grey son of Frankel, who also landed that season's Great Voltigeur Stakes, joins Peter and Emma Hockenhull's Shropshire operation after a deal was completed with his owner-breeders Juddmonte. His fee will be announced at a later date. Peter Hockenhull said: "The purchase of Logician is the culmination of a four-year search to bring another top-class stallion prospec