Andrew Thornton leads tributes to Dorset trainerLogician team acknowledge worries over infectionTributes have been paid following the death on Monday night of Robert Alner, a popular West Country trainer whose many big-race successes included the 1998 Cheltenham Gold Cup with the 25-1 outsider Cool Dawn. Alner, who was 76, had been paralysed after a car crash in 2007 and there were emotional scenes at Chepstow the following month when his Miko De Beauchene won the Welsh Grand National.“It’s said horses take after their trainer and his did,” said Andrew Thornton, the jockey who was aboard for both those victories. “They just kept coming back and he did the same. He was given two years to live after the crash and he lasted over 12. Continue reading…
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