Saturday racing tips and betting news: Trackman has all the latest news from the tracks and picks out his best bets at Doncaster

ALL roads lead north today.

There will be a full house at Doncaster for the St Leger where funtime Frankie Dettori is ready to rock’n’roll on Logician in our final Classic.

Mind you, it hasn’t all been beer and skittles up there this week. Plenty of Billy Bunters had the raging hump after Noel Fehily was chinned on Hammer Gun (10-1 to 4-1) in the Legends race.

The Greek national debt had been bet on this one but he was done by a cigarette paper after getting stuck behind a wall of backsides at the furlong pole. It was a right old video nasty and fingers were severely singed.

John Best is a better angle spotter than Pythagoras and used his loaf to nick the Jump Jockeys’ Derby with Berrahri at Epsom on Thursday.

Wide-awake Besty noticed that Flat jockey Joey Haynes was qualified to ride in the race as he’d had a couple of spins in bumpers.

He hit the speed-dial, booked his man and jolly Joey did the rest with a shrewd front-running ride.

The horse and his fan club head to glitzy St Moritz for the Grand Prix next and its dollars to donuts they won’t return empty handed.

There were some lumpy old bets pinging round the ring before the mile handicap where Peter Hiatt’s Thorn (25-1 to 14-1) was supported by some clever faces.

One fast-talking fella whacked £1,500 down to win £25,000 on this rascal and almost copped the lot when his horse ran a nailer to finish second.

He’ll hit a home-run soon and it’s well worth sticking Dream Tonight in your notebook too.

This kiddie is an unraced Mark Johnston two-year-old and the word is she’s lapping pigeons on the Middleham gallops.

We had a bumper crowd at Fontwell’s Family Fun Day where Richard Johnson turned up for two rides who ran like blocked drains.

The `champ’ could have got the hump at this point but never stopped smiling and posed for a stack of selfies with grateful locals after the last. Top man!

By the way, Leighton Aspell was keen to pass on a good word for Oliver Sherwood’s Archimento who bolted-up in a novice hurdle on this card.

Lucky Leighton has done more laps of the track than Mick The Miller and is certain this fella will leave his current form behind when he moves up in trip on softer ground.

There’s always something to make you smile in this game and I heard a blinding set of riding instructions the other day.

As the trainer went to sling the jockey up he moved in close and snarled “I want you to get out in front and unleash hell…..”

The race was a 2m selling handicap on the all-weather and the horse struggled to move fast enough to keep warm.

You won’t meet a nicer bloke than William Muir and he’s unearthed a proper diamond in Pyledriver.

This fella looked smarter than the average bear when he bolted-up at Haydock last weekend and wily William reports that he’s been in cracking form at home since.

The Royal Lodge or Autumn Stakes’ are next on his dance card and a bold bid is expected.

Roger Teal knows the time of day and his OXTED has a cracking chance in the William Hill Portland Handicap (1.50) at Doncaster today.

Nothing went right for this speedball at Newmarket last time but he’s been primed for this and is ridden by find of the season Cieren Fallon.

Richard Hannon had a face as long as a fiddle after THREAT was chinned at Glorious Goodwood and will be expecting him to win the Pommery Champagne Stakes (3.00, Doncaster).

A step-up to 7f will be right up this colt’s strasse and he looks a cut above this field.