Dettori interview

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Rather illuminating and put Sheikh M in not a very good light .

Dettori placed the blame for his downgrading in Godolphin squarely on al Zarooni .

I have to admit seeing Dettori ride one of AOB's to beat Dawn Approach in the DErby would be very very funny .:lol:
 
Haven't seen it but they paid him well for a long time. Should he really be doing this while hes still riding?
 
Ardross said:
Rather illuminating and put Sheikh M in not a very good light .

Dettori placed the blame for his downgrading in Godolphin squarely on al Zarooni .

I have to admit seeing Dettori ride one of AOB's to beat Dawn Approach in the DErby would be very very funny .:lol:
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He should ride Rule of law, made for him.
 
oops, for no prize whatsoever guess which one I meant.
(amazing what a little Vino will dredge up from the memory banks)
 
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Why has The Racing Post chosen to use Frankie Dettori in Derek Smiths silks? I would have assumed a more casual picture would be fitting given the headline.
 
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That would be a bugger if thats true...

Mind you,he was banned when this blood test was taken - surely thats him taking stuff in his own time (cos of the ban) and what he does in his private life is nobodys business but his own !!

(not that I am condoning it in any way shape or form, and frankly youd think he would have the sense not to get caught again IF he has, but there we go)
 
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It looks to me as if Dettori needs a new agent . His return has been rather a damp squib so far - perhaps partly due to his time away. partly due to why he was away but Cochrane has had a very cushy number and may be he is not the man for the job - and Dettori is in need of a Tony Hind style agent .
 
What I find a little odd is that Cumani and Gosden for example , so close to Dettori in the past have not offered him a ride or two .
 
He's got quite a bit to prove at this stage. He's been out of action for six months, he's already well into the veteran stage of his career, and the evidence that he's looking after himself is not reassuring.
 
He is 42- Lester had a full book of rides on Champion Stakes day a week after his comeback at 55 in 1990 !
 
Grey said:
He's got quite a bit to prove at this stage. He's been out of action for six months, he's already well into the veteran stage of his career, and the evidence that he's looking after himself is not reassuring.
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he has nothing to prove
he has won 200 gr1s and it is like Federer coming after a break
he will have plenty of good rides in coming months
 
It doesn't matter how good he has been in the past, what matters is how fit he is at the moment. He's at an age where he needs to look after himself, and I can understand why trainers want to be reassured on that point.
 
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Nobody in horse racing likes a grass.
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He has a ride for Hamdan on Saturday - so if that is true !!! At least one Maktoum appears to have forgiven him .

Given two horses very good rides tonight - I hope and think he is going to do well in his comeback now .
 
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He has a ride for Hamdan on Saturday - so if that is true !!! At least one Maktoum appears to have forgiven him .

Given two horses very good rides tonight - I hope and think he is going to do well in his comeback now .
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Bugger! I liked that conspiracy theory.
 
Speaking after his win:

I've got plenty of rides coming up, including ten on Saturday.
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It seems after all that he's getting all the support from trainers that he could wish for.
 
There is no substitute for race riding, he can't be as racefit and racewise as his colleagues after 6 months off. He'll get better.
Dettori is too easily written off as past it and I just looked at the last 5 years of the jockey championship. In 2009 to 2011 he had the highest winning percentage (20-24%) of wins to rides of the top jockeys. In 2008 his strike rate was only 17% but only Moore bettered that figure. Last year the wheels probably came off and he only scored on 13% of his rides. If he hits the strike rate of those other years, of which I'm sure he's capable, he'll be a force to be reckoned with: 42 is no age for a jockey.
What needs to happen is that the child stops being a fool and the man in him takes over.
 
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