GODOLPHIN have been patient with 2012 St Leger winner Encke, who returned at Goodwood in August after an absence of nearly two years.

He finished second to Richard Hannon’s Pether’s Moon in the Glorious Stakes that day, but was well held in Brown Panther’s Irish St Leger and last Saturday proved rather disappointing in the Group 3 BMW Cumberland Lodge Stakes, finishing only third of five to Pether’s Moon despite being 6lb better off this time.