Dettori in tears as Enable produces a perfect 10

With the iconic riding career on these shores of Frankie Dettori set to draw to a close at British Champions Day, now is the perfect time to reminisce over some of the never to be forgotten moments the Italian has left racing fans with in his glittering 36-year British career. With 2489 wins in total worldwide, Dettori will be desperate to hit the…

As the 35 Breeders' Cup World Championships approached, one of the main storylines involved a European superstar who was planning an overseas jaunt with an elusive goal in her sights. Enable, owned by Khalid Abdullah's Juddmonte Farms and trained by John Gosden, had already established herself as one of the best racehorses of the 21 century by…

Frankie Dettori will ride FREE WIND in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe on Sunday (1st Oct), which will be the final time we'll see the popular Italian jockey in the big Longchamp race that he's won a record-breaking 6 times. Frankie Dettori and trainer John Gosden have teamed up to win the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe three times since 2015 and they are…

Frankie Dettori rued his luck following Free Wind's narrow defeat in the Pertemps Network Yorkshire Oaks and believes the mare's troubled passage during the race could have cost her victory. The five-year-old was caught behind horses in the home straight and was unable to make a move until two furlongs out. Once in the clear she stormed home but…

There was a beautiful symmetry about Soul Sister's emphatic Betfred Oaks victory. It was a win that completed the circle for Frankie Dettori, who landed his first British Classic in the same race with Balanchine way back in 1994. There have been a further 21 Classic wins on'home' soil since but with time ticking on one of the most enduring careers…

Frankie Dettori has been pure box office for racing - one of those rare figures to cross the divide from the back pages to the front. Ebullient, effervescent, magical - just a sample of the adjectives one could attach to peak Dettori moments throughout his illustrious near 40-year career, which will come to a close at the end of 2023, following the…

Frankie Dettori has been pure box office for racing - one of those rare figures to cross the divide from the back pages to the front. Ebullient, effervescent, magical - just a sample of the adjectives one could attach to peak Dettori moments throughout his illustrious near 40-year career, which will come to a close at the end of 2023, following the…

Dettori joined Gosden in 1993 and was champion jockey in both 1994 and 1995 during his first spell with the Newmarket-based handler. However, it is since returning to Clarehaven for a second time and rejoining forces with his old boss that the Gosden/Dettori axis has found the most fame, with the pair synonymous with a conveyor belt of equine…

John Gosden and Frankie Dettori: the pair joined forces in 2015 They were only together for seven years, but the Frankie Dettori-John Gosden partnership became a part of racing furniture. However, it was announced late on Friday that their high-profile relationship "is on sabbatical" . Here is a look at their time together. . . March 2015 Frankie…

Frankie Dettori's mount Emily Upjohn was the favourite for the big race at Epsom on Friday. Full 1-2-3 result here and odds as Tuesday galloped to victory at the Derby Festival Tuesday ridden by Ryan Moore (right) wins the Cazoo Oaks Tuesday held on in an absorbing finish to the Cazoo Oaks at Epsom Racecourse. The Group 1, with a first prize of…

English flat racing royalty John Gosden was more than happy with Emily Upjohn's showing on the Cazoo Epsom Derby Gallops Morning. Of course, his filly is favourite for the top females' race known as The Oaks and his three-year-old may prove an immovable object in the big race on June 3. The Sea The Stars filly is likely to start odds-on for the one…

The John & Thady Gosden-trained Sea The Stars filly, who scored on her only start of 2021 at Wolverhampton, tracked leader Follow That Star (14-1) under Frankie Dettori. Taking the lead two furlongs from home, she kept finding more and more, coming home nine and a half lengths to the good over Follow That Star. She is as low as 7/1 with Paddy Power…

Horse & Hound is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Learn more This afternoon (Saturday 24 July), there is even more brilliant Group One racing for us to feast on when the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes gets underway at Ascot. Here's the…

Queen of the turf. King of the saddle. A master trainer and the sporting prince. But could the weather rain on racing royalty's parade? Sunday sees record-breaking mare Enable aimed at one more piece of history in probably her final competitive outing - an unprecedented third victory in Europe's richest race, the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. Victory…

It is a plan which has been a year in the making and the curtain looks certain to finally come down on Enable's glittering career following Sunday's Prix de l' Arc de Triomphe on Sunday. John Gosden's superstar is attempting to make history by landing three runnings of the iconic autumn final at ParisLongchamp, a year after she finished second to…

Love is a deserved favourite for the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in the view of Frankie Dettori following her exploits this season. Victories in the 1000 Guineas, Oaks and Yorkshire Oaks have seen Aidan O'Brien's filly usurp Enable at the head of the market for the European middle-distance championship - and Dettori is fully aware of the threat she…

Victories in the 1000 Guineas, Oaks and Yorkshire Oaks have seen Aidan O'Brien's filly usurp Enable at the head of the market for the European middle-distance championship - and Dettori is fully aware of the threat she poses to the John Gosden-trained mare's bid for an unprecedented third victory in the race. The Italian is back in Britain and…

Germany, France, and England will all host Group 1 races during the coming week, with the most significant action taking place at York. The Juddmonte International (G1) and Yorkshire Oaks (G1) - "Win and You're In" qualifiers for the Breeders' Cup Classic (G1), and Filly & Mare Turf (G1), respectively - are among the major races slated to be held…

Enable produced another sparkling display to claim an unprecedented third victory in the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Qipco Stakes. John Gosden's superstar mare was narrowly denied in her bid to become the first three-time winner of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe last season - and has been kept in training as a six-year-old with the primary…

Aidan O'Brien (left) and John Gosden: who will come out on top in Saturday's feature Group 1? Enable could face a tidal wave of runners from Ballydoyle in her bid for a historic third King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot on Saturday as Aidan O'Brien on Monday refused to rule out running all six of his entries. O'Brien and Enable's…

Our virtual trip around the international world of horse racing continues over the July 4-5 weekend with a bevy of important races in England and France. Four postponed classics are on the agenda, including the coveted Oaks and Derby in England, but the highlight of the weekend is undoubtedly the Coral-Eclipse Stakes, in which superstar Enable will…

John Gosden's brilliant mare became the eighth dual winner of Europe's premier middle-distance contest last season and was kept in training as a five-year-old with the chief aim of becoming the first horse to win the race three times. While she endured a troubled preparation last term, the current campaign has been faultless as she has stretched…

ENABLE (1-4f) was in a class of her own once again as the Queen of the Turf reigned supreme over her rivals in the Yorkshire Oaks. Frankie Dettori took his wondermare straight to the front in the Group 1 contest and the pair never saw another rival. It was business as usual. John Gosden's five-year-old had been very short odds for the Yorkshire…

ENABLE can keep her crown and establish herself as one of the greatest ever mares in Thursday's Yorkshire Oaks. John Gosden's five-year-old has returned this season in better nick than ever, with stunning victories recently in both the Eclipse and King George. Her performance at Ascot where she toppled Crystal Ocean, the highest-rated horse in the…

John Gosden is wary and respectful of Enable's high-class opponents as she bids to regain her crown in the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes. The dual Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe heroine proved she has lost none of her brilliance when making a successful start to her campaign in the Coral-Eclipse at Sandown three weeks ago, and will bring the…