{"id":296541,"date":"2023-10-20T18:24:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T18:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/?p=296541"},"modified":"2023-10-20T18:24:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T18:24:30","slug":"mail-sports-marcus-townend-picks-his-favourite-dettori-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/horse-racing\/mail-sports-marcus-townend-picks-his-favourite-dettori-moments\/","title":{"rendered":"Mail Sport&apos;s Marcus Townend picks his favourite\u00a0Dettori moments"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>From his stunning Arc win to showing his genius on Never Can Tell and riding the first four winners on Gold Cup day at Royal Ascot &#8211; Mail Sport&#8217;s Marcus Townend picks his favourite\u00a0Frankie Dettori moments<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Frankie Dettori bows out of British racing with five rides at Ascot on Saturday<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Dettori was too small to be a footballer, so he followed his jockey dad into racing<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mail Sport&#8217;s new WhatsApp Channel: Get the breaking news and exclusives here\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>View <br \/> comments<\/p>\n<p>Legendary jockey Frankie Dettori\u00a0makes his final appearance in front of a British crowd as Ascot on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The 52-year-old bows out with five rides on Champions Day at Ascot, including\u00a0King of Steel in the Champion Stakes.<\/p>\n<p>Beforehand, Dettori has four other opportunities to sign off in style as he rides Trawlerman in the Long Distance Cup (1.15pm), Kinross in the Champions Sprint (1.50pm), Free Wind in the Champions Fillies &amp; Mares Stakes (2.25pm) and Chaldean in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes (3.05pm).<\/p>\n<p>Dettori has claimed more than 3,300 career wins over a remarkable 35-year career.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here, Mail Sport&#8217;s Racing Editor Marcus Townend picks out his 10 favourite moments.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/20\/17\/76810725-0-image-a-15_1697820077919.jpg\" height=\"448\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Frankie Dettori riding Golden Horn wins The Qatar Prix De L&#8217;Arc De Triomphe in 2015<\/p>\n<p><span>1. Golden Horn\u2019s 2015 Arc win<\/span><\/p>\n<p>How do you start to whittle down Dettori masterclasses? Undoubtedly, the best jockey riding from the front and controlling the pace since the great Steve Cauthen. This was one of his best.<\/p>\n<p>A wide draw in stall 14 of the 17 runners was a concern but Dettori counter-intuitively kept his mount wide of the remaining runners for the first two furlongs before cutting in to sit just behind the pacesetter.<\/p>\n<p>There he restrained Golden Horn until launching an attack for the line a quarter mile from the finish which saw him beat Flintshire two lengths with two-time Arc winner Treve back in fourth.<\/p>\n<p><span>2. Enable\u2019s 2018 Breeders\u2019 Cup Turf win<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dettori won a heap of big races with his favourite racehorse including three King Georges and two Arcs. But at the end of a difficult season, when she only ran three times, Enable and Dettori produced a courageous run at Churchill Downs as pulled three-quarters of a length clear of Magical who had slipped through to lead while Enable had to go wider on the home turn around the runner-up\u2019s stablemate Hunting Horn. The punch in the air as he crossed the line showed how much the win meant to Dettori.<\/p>\n<p><span>3. Never Can Tell\u2019s win in the 2011 Cesarewitch<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A ride which encapsulated Frankie\u2019s genius. The 25-1 shot looked a write-off when drawn impossibly wide in stall 36 of 36. But, within two furlongs of the two and a quarter mile contest, Dettori got his mount over to inside rail in the lead before switching Never Can Tell to race solo up the long Rowley Mile straight after the field took the only bend in the race. Dettori\u2019s tactics looked madness but it was an audacious success as his mount won by a length and a half.<\/p>\n<p><span>4. Mother Earth\u2019s 2021 1,000 Guineas win<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Not everyone likes Frankie Dettori\u2019s antics, they feel he wants to hog the limelight. But no other jockeys have garnered the sport as much interest and publicity.<\/p>\n<p>This wins sticks in the memory because of Dettori\u2019s reaction. Covid-19 restrictions meant Newmarket was virtually deserted with the atmosphere of a library. Frankie celebrated his 20th British Classic by whooping and hollering all the way back to the winner\u2019s enclosure before repeatedly shouting \u2018Come On Me\u2019 which you could still hear echoing around the Weighing Room.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/20\/17\/76811083-0-image-a-17_1697820526332.jpg\" height=\"1025\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The jockey celebrates with trademark flying dismount from\u00a0Stradivarius at Royal Ascot in 2019<\/p>\n<p><span>5. Riding the first four winners on Gold Cup day at Royal Ascot in 2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dettori can inject a frisson into a race day like no-one else. A\u2019Ali, Sangarius, Star Catcher and Stradivarius in the Gold Cup gave him a 449-1 four-timer and had the bookies in serious panic mode. He was whipping the crowd into a frenzy and his next mount, Turgenev, was sent off 7-2 favourite in the 28-runner Britannia Handicap.<\/p>\n<p>For seven and a half furlongs of the eight furlong race Turgenev looked like winning and in truth Frankie got a bit carried away and probably kicked on a bit too early. His sixth and final mount was unplaced and bookmakers sighed with relief.<\/p>\n<p>Had he gone through the card at such a big card would have made the financial hit off the scale compared to his 1996 Magnificent Seven.<\/p>\n<p><span>6. Conduit\u2019s 2008 St Leger win<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Another moment frozen in the memory bank for what happened after the race rather than in it. Dettori had already won the St Leger five times but trainer Sir Michael Stoute had been frustrated on a number of occasions including with the great Shergar in 1981 and he hasn\u2019t won it since.<\/p>\n<p>A bubbling Dettori hugged the reserved, publicity-shy trainer and planted a kiss on his cheek, something no other jockey would have dared to do as he said: \u2018I said to Michael that he has had Lester Piggott, Willie Carson, Walter Swinburn, Pat Eddery, Kieren Fallon, Steve Cauthen and Ryan Moore so I was the last name on his book and I have got him out of trouble!\u2019<\/p>\n<p><span>7. Winning the Breeders\u2019 Cup Classic with Raven\u2019s Pass in 2008<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A personal one this, but Dettori blowing kisses to the British Press Corp in the outside media area after he had become the one and only British-trained winner of the signature race of the Breeders\u2019 Cup meeting on the John Gosden-trained colt.<\/p>\n<p>It did help that we were euphoric, our syndicate having just won the Pick Six, while the grumpy US hacks were spitting tacks because the unthinkable had happened with the defeat of hot favourite Curlin, who was chasing back to back wins in the race.<\/p>\n<p><span>8. Lifting Ouija Board home in the 2006 Nassau Stakes<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A race for the ages. Ouija Board and Alexander Goldrun were locked in battle for two furlongs before Alexander Goldrun nosed ahead. But Dettori\u2019s rhythmic urgings lifted his mount back in front by a short-head in what will be forever hailed as one of the greatest races run at Glorious Goodwood.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/20\/18\/76813313-12654647-image-a-17_1697824482689.jpg\" height=\"807\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Dettori hugged and kissed a delighted Sir Michael Stoute after winning the trainer his first St Leger since 1981 27 years later<\/p>\n<p><span>9. Fantastic Light beats Galileo in the 2001 Irish Champion Stakes<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It was revenge for Dettori and trainer Saeed Bin Suroor after they had been beaten by his Aidan O\u2019Brien-trained rival in the King George at Ascot. Pacemakers made it a tactical race but Dettori finding a rail-side run while Mick Kinane was forced wider on Galileo around the Leopardstown home turn ultimately proved decisive in his neck victory.<\/p>\n<p><span>10. Gregory at Royal Ascot this Summer<\/span><\/p>\n<p>You have to have one from his final season and no ride better exemplifies the Dettori skill then this Queen\u2019s Vase winner. In front after a furlong he controlled the pace and the race. The pursuers were all dancing to his tune as he kicked on from pole position entering the home straight.<\/p>\n<p>Only runner-up Saint George could get close enough to lay a glove on him and Dettori had saved more than enough to see him off.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/racing\/article-12654647\/From-stunning-Arc-win-showing-genius-Never-Tell-riding-four-winners-Gold-Cup-day-Royal-Ascot-Mail-Sports-Marcus-Townend-picks-favourite-Frankie-Dettori-moments.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From his stunning Arc win to showing his genius on Never Can Tell and riding the first four winners on <span class=\"more-text\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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