\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Worldfly\u2019s Wells<\/B> paid $13.00 to win Saturday\u2019s St. Leggs Marathon in Victoria.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>As many predicted, dawnrun<\/I>\u2019s five-year-old went straight to the lead and stayed there for all of the fourteen furlongs. \u00a0<\/SPAN>Celtic Legend (FR)<\/B> pressed the pace early, staying with Worldfly\u2019s Wells<\/B> throughout the early stages of the race and not allowing him to run away with it entirely.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Turning down the stretch, however, saw the favorite fading, though jockey M. Miller did everything possible to keep Celtic Legend (FR)<\/B> up front. \u00a0<\/SPAN>Despite his best efforts, Wordlfy\u2019s Wells<\/B> powered on to what was at one point a seven length lead.<\/P> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/SPAN>In the final furlong a tremendous cheer broke out from the crowd as a pair of fillies, Mockingbird<\/B> and Impulsion<\/B>, made late runs. \u00a0<\/SPAN>Impulsion<\/B> has found new success recently on turf and finished in third. \u00a0<\/SPAN>Mockingbird<\/B>, although shipped in from the states, had become a crowd favorite over the past week and made many of her new fans happy by coming home second and cutting Worldfly\u2019s Wells\u2019 <\/B>lead to four and a quarter lengths. \u00a0<\/SPAN>Pedro\u2019s Speedster<\/B> finished fourth, while Celtic Legend(FR)<\/B> held on for fifth.<\/P> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Whether or not you believe the legend of St. Leggs, for whom this race was named, there is no denying that Worldfly\u2019s Wells<\/B> made this one look easy.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>While a few in the crowd proclaimed him an equal to Leggs, most were content to celebrate this victory and leave legends to another era. \u00a0<\/SPAN><\/P> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/SPAN>It should be noted that all who participated in this race were presented with commemorative leg wraps afterward that bear a picture of Leggs himself. \u00a0<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Field Unable To Catch Worldfly’s Wells In Marathon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":170,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/170"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}