Steve Norton: 'He was the best boss ever' - Group 1-winning trainer dies aged 87

Steve Norton: groundbreaking trainer has died at 87

Steve Norton, a "gritty Yorkshireman" and pioneering Group 1-winning trainer, has died at the age of 87.

Norton started out with jumpers and had a winner at the Cheltenham Festival before focusing on the Flat and training Britain's first Prix Marcel Boussac winner at Longchamp on Arc day with Goodbye Shelley in 1982.

His nephew John Norton, who trains in South Yorkshire, says: "My father and he bought a farm in Silkstone, near Barnsley and my dad ran the farm side of things while my uncle took care of the horses.

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Published on 19 October 2024inRacing Lives

Last updated 18:11, 19 October 2024

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