- Chester specialist Franny Norton steers smooth success
- Mark Johnston: Norton comes into his own on track like this
Few jockeys in the long history of racing at Chester have ridden the Roodee as confidently as Franny Norton, but until Friday morning, the course’s most famous and historic race was still one of the few here that had eluded him.
The runners went to post for the Chester Cup in a cloudburst of spectacular proportions, however, and as the downpour continued throughout the race, Norton drew on all his experience and trackcraft to win from front on Making Miracles, having set off from an apparently hopeless position in stall 16.
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