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By Cornelius Lysaght
BBC horse racing correspondent
Big-race owner Paul Dean has his own suggestions, although st Leger week started over Theresa May’s honours list.
Sir Ron Priestley, ranked a lively contender against Logician, Sir Dragonet along with also co. in flat racing’s oldest and closing traditional race of this year staged Doncaster, is just one of a series of horses Dean has named after friends to whom he is also granted’his own type’ of knighthood.
The late Mr Priestley was a first customer in the betting shop opened in the 1960s by Dean, among the racehorse owners who was firmly about the Mark Johnston bandwagon nicely prior to his successful performance at Middleham, North Yorkshire became high profile as it is today.
And talking 49, Sir Ron Priestley’s jockey Franny Norton, will be deserving of an, maybe even a gong, was a standing dish at the jockeys’ changing room for years.
A champion amateur boxer who turned down the opportunity to go to the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur so as to focus on becoming a jockey, the Scouser, has needed to shake his way into the summit of racing.
A successful apprentice rider, he found that the going heavy because a fully-fledged rider, however, a later teaming up with Johnston, who also saddles outsider Nayef Road, has established a revelation.
But though Norton’s staged in 2 stagings of the 1,000 Guineas and in the 2014 St Leger – in 3 Classic races – he’s never been successful at the highest Group One level of the sport.
Maybe that CV void can be, filled by twice a winner in Goodwood in August, Sir Ron Priestley .
Norton stated:”We haven’t got to the bottom of himand he is always dug deep to me.
“We know exactly what Logician and the others are attracted to the table, however we also know what we’re bringing to the table also, most importantly, if there’s any chinks in their armour Sir Ron may find them because he’s tough and he is brave.
“The three in front of him at the gambling, are they really that bombproof? I am very positive and I will be providing my horse all of the positive vibes.”
Together with Norton being the very level jockey – ahead of Frankie Dettori – and having ridden his first winner in May 1989 before many of his rivals were born, a success at this level could be acclaimed.
While acknowledging it could be a”great story”, he insists he’s philosophical about what might or might not occur.
“If Franny Norton ends his racing career, and he did not ride a Group One winner, would I lose any sleep? No I won’t,” he said.
“If Franny Norton wins a Group One race along with even a Classic, does this make it better? No it does not. Will it put my career up further? No, because I’ll be completed in a couple of years anyway.
“But you’re right it would be a great story – folks enjoy a rollercoaster, and that’s what I have needed – so, yes it would be great.”
Up to eight runners are due to line up from the St Leger, first staged four years in 1776 ahead of the Epsom Derby.
The area ridden by Dettori is headed by the unbeaten Logician, a grey-coloured son of champion Frankel and trained by John Gosden.
Dettori, who’s looking for his sixth largest St Leger success – in contrast to Gosden for whom success would be number five – stated:”He’s still learning, but he struck the line nicely [at the Great Voltigeur Stakes at York in August], and that is going to bring him on further.”
The Dettori/Gosden accessibility has been much more like a juggernaut in major prizes throughout the summer – with more to come, notably Enable in October’s Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp in Paris – although that the Irish-based Aidan O’Brien group was in nearly equally potent kind.
Consequently, O’Brien and Gosden are efficiently neck and neck at the prize-money-decided British trainers’ championship – which lasts till 31 December – but although Gosden retains a #300,000-plus guide, the #700,000 online at Doncaster, with benefits right down to sixth position, could readily make all of the difference.
Sir Dragonet, which shot to prominence when operating away with all the Chester Vase at May before finishing down the field in the Epsom Derby, is best fancied of a three-strong O’Brien obstacle as the County Tipperary trainer goes for a third win in just three years, seven full.
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