Deutsch starts next chapter on a bright note with second on comeback ride

Charlie Deutsch is hoping to move on from the episode that led to him spending much of the summer behind bars, and he made a bright start when finishing second on his comeback ride at the Cambridgeshire track.

The 22-year-old served two and a half months of a nine-month sentence after pleading guilty to dangerous driving while over the drink-drive limit and escaping from police custody, and was released from prison in August.

Aboard Rogue Dancer in the 2m7½f handicap chase a day after having his tag removed, Deutsch took up the running early on the last circuit and looked likely to win on his Lawney Hill-trained mount until Hoke Colburn proved too strong from the last.