IT looked like Order Of St George was back to his best in the Comer Group Irish St Leger Trial at the Curragh on Saturday.

The odds-on favourite he may have been, but this was not a formality. Aidan O’Brien’s horse faced formidable opposition in the progressive Rekindling and the talented Renneti and last year’s Irish Leger winner Wicklow Brave, who was rated just 5lb lower than the favourite.