Sanders on road to recovery

JOINT British champion jockey Seb Sanders underwent surgery yesterday to have a bone in his left leg pinned that was broken in his fall at Chester over the weekend.

The 36-year-old had been hoping for a move to a unit nearer home in Suffolk and was delayed in having the operation on his femur after being taken to the Countess of Chester Hospital.

The accident occurred in the Listed corbettsports.com Chester Handicap on Saturday when Sanders’ mount Speed Gifted was brought down in a three-horse pile-up.