Say cheese: Owen over the moon after Zoffee claims landmark Chester Cup

Triumph for locally trained horse, narrowly denied last year, was the ideal result on this unique race’s 200th anniversary The trophy – and the 30lb Cheshire cheese that comes with it – were handed to Alan Peterson, the owner of Zoffee, after the Chester Cup here on Friday, but it was a sign of how much this unique race means to the locals that Michael Owen, the landlord of Manor House Stables where Zoffee is trained by Hugo Palmer, was celebrating as if he had just scored the