On his only appearance as a two-year-old, Saddlers' Hall started 11/10 favourite against ten opponents (including several previous winners) in the Houghton Stakes over seven furlongs at Newmarket Racecourse on 20 October.

Corrupt, who had started joint-favourite for The Derby, headed the betting from the unbeaten Secret Haunt with Saddlers' Hall the 7/1 third choice alongside the French challenger Malmsey and Peking Opera (third in the Chester Vase).

[7] Saddlers' Hall was then stepped up to the highest class and matched against older horses for the first time to contest Britain's most prestigious all-aged race, the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot on 27 July.

In August Saddlers' Hall was dropped in class and started favourite for the Great Voltigeur Stakes at York but was beaten into second place by Corrupt, to whom he was conceding three pounds in weight.

[8] On his final appearance of the season he was sent to the United States for the Breeders' Cup Turf at Churchill Downs on 2 November and made no impact, finishing tenth of the twelve runners behind Miss Alleged.

[12] On 7 July Saddlers' Hall recorded his fourth consecutive Group race success when he started odds-on favourite for the Princess of Wales's Stakes at Newmarket and won by three lengths from Luchiroverte with Mashaallah in third.

[13] At the end of the month Saddlers' Hall ran for the second time in the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes in which he was ridden by Willie Carson and started second favourite.

[14] His most successful flat runners were the St Leger winner Silver Patriarch and Endless Hall who won the Gran Premio di Milano and Singapore Airlines International Cup.