Filming the St Leger: What I Learnt About Telling a Story You Don't Know Yet

When the St Leger commission came up, I applied for it. Then I got it. And somewhere between those two things it dawned on me that I didn’t know the first thing about horse racing.

I’ve lived in and around Doncaster most of my life. I knew the St Leger was on, the way you know the weather’s on. Oldest Classic in the world, run on the Town Moor since 1776, the town fills up for a week every September. Beyond that, nothing.