Frankie Dettori to ride at Listowel for first time during Harvest Festival

Ascot (United Kingdom) (AFP) - Frankie Dettori brought the curtain down on his dazzling three-decade career in Europe on Saturday in fairytale fashion with two big race winners on British Champions Day. The flamboyant Italian showman began his final day riding in Europe with one of his trademark flying dismounts after upsetting hot favourite…

Frankie Dettori brought the curtain down on his dazzling three-decade career in Europe on Saturday in fairytale fashion with two big race winners on British Champions Day. The flamboyant Italian showman began his final day riding in Europe with one of his trademark flying dismounts after upsetting hot favourite Kyprios on Trawlerman in the Long…

Should we have ever doubted him? Given the year - and career - Frankie Dettori has had, he was always going to produce something special at Ascot on his farewell to British racing. But to ride off into the American sunshine by winning the Qipco Champion Stakes on King Of Steel? Even he could not quite believe it. The day started with an incredible…

Should we have ever doubted him? Given the year - and career - Frankie Dettori has had, he was always going to produce something special at Ascot on his farewell to British racing. But to ride off into the American sunshine by winning the Qipco Champion Stakes on King Of Steel? Even he could not quite believe it. The day started with an incredible…

Frankie Dettori reacts after riding Godolphin's Trawlerman to victory in the British Champions Long Distance Stakes at Ascot Racecourse on Saturday. AFP Frankie Dettori brought the curtain down on his dazzling three-decade career in Europe on Saturday in fairytale fashion with two big race winners on British Champions Day. The flamboyant Italian…

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Ascot racecourse helped develop Frankie Dettori into the world-famous jockey he became thanks to his'Magnificent Seven' in 1996, on an afternoon which evolved into Qipco Champions Day. So it is fitting he will bid farewell - at least it seems he will - to British racing at that meeting this weekend. That incredible day saw Dettori win all seven…

BOOKIES have revealed a very cheeky 50-1 Frankie Dettori retirement special that's sure to ruffle a few feathers. The world's most famous jockey announced this morning he is in fact not retiring and staying in the saddle for another year. He will race in the States as he aims to fulfil a lifetime ambition and win the Kentucky Derby. As it…

Saturday's 2023 Sun Chariot Stakes betting will be focused around the classy John Gosden-trained filly INSPIRAL, who will be ridden by Frankie Dettori in what will be the Italian jockeys last ride in the Newmarket Group One. The big UK horse race this week is the Group One Sun Chariot Stakes at Newmarket and at this stage there are nine entries for…

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…

For all of modern history, horse racing has long been one of the biggest and most influential sports in Ireland. Sites such as the Curragh plains have been central to Irish myth and folklore with tall tales of figures such as Fionn MacCumhaill. Throughout Irish history, successive institutions have understood how central horse racing is to Irish…

Master Of The Hunt might get punters off to a winning start by taking the Irish Stallion Farms EBF 2-Y-0 Maiden in Listowel. This No Nay Never colt is trained by Aidan O'Brien, who has won two of the last three runnings of this race, shaped with plenty of promise on his Curragh debut and sets a decent standard boosted by the 5lb claim of Killian…

Oisín Murphy is going home to Kerry on Tuesday where the triple-British champion jockey will have four rides on Day Three of the Listowel festival. The 28-year-old Killarney native has never ridden in his native county before but adds some stardust to the Harvest Festival action. Once billed as a potential successor to Frankie Dettori as racing's…

Down Royal racegoers are in for a rare treat on Friday with Frankie Dettori set to make his first ever appearance at the Lisburn circuit. The 52-year-old might be preparing to bring his glittering career in the saddle to an end later this year but he has shown absolutely no signs of slowing down, riding a whole host of big-race winners both at home…

Popular jockey Frankie Dettori almost has a full book of rides at Meydan on Saturday. You can see which horses Frankie Dettori rides at the Dubai World Cup Meeting below. Over the years Frankie Dettori has ridden the Dubai World Cup winner four times. The first of those successes came in 2000 with the very useful Godolphin horse Dubai Millennium,…

2022-12-22Frankie Dettori and Davy Russell: A fond farewell to two contrasting horse racing legends Frankie Dettori and Davy Russell, one a flat racing legend, the other a star of National Hunt racing stunned the sport by announcing their retirements this week. The announcements, like the jockeys themselves, could not have been more contrasting,…

Magnor Glory gave the bookies some respite, in front of a huge crowd (officially 27323), on Ladies Day at Listowel's Harvest Festival when landing the €100000 Ladbrokes Handicap Hurdle. Owned by Barry Walsh and Joe Sheahan, trained in Carrigtwohill by Terence O'Brien, and only a second winner as a professional for 7lb claimer Michael O'Sullivan,…

There are six race meetings across the UK and Ireland on Wednesday, with perhaps the pick of the bunch being the jumps card at Listowel (2.00-5.30), which hosts the Kerry National. The first action is from the day's other National Hunt card at Perth (1.00-4.30), while they race on the Flat at Redcar (1.43-5.38), Goodwood (1.50-5.20), Kempton…

Tom Thurgood shares his views on the €200000 Guinness Kerry National, the highlight of the Listowel Festival. Enjoy Wednesday's big event live on Racing TV and Racing TV Extra. The Tote Galway Plate could well prove the key form line to Wednesday's Guinness Kerry National, with no less than eight contenders from that big race set to line up once…

With Frankie Dettori already off the mark on the first day of this year's Royal Ascot (16 June), we take a look at the reasons why the Italian jockey is such a favourite with the public - and it's not just for his flying dismounts… Lanfranco Dettori, the son of Italian champion jockey Gianfranco Dettori and a circus performer mother, was born in…

Family man: Frankie with wife Catherine son Leo and daughter Ella at the premiere of The Chronicles Of Narnia in December 2005 Star jockey Frankie Dettori today apologised for'letting down my wife and children' after being banned from racing for six months for drug taking. The 41-year-old Italian tested positive for a banned substance, thought to…

Racegoers witnessed a moment in history on The Knavesmire today when Frankie Dettori stole the show on his final ride in York's richest race. PETER BARRON was among the spectators… As Frankie Dettori made his triumphant way back to the winner's enclosure on a gleaming dark colt, named Mostahdaf, I Gotta Feeling by the Black Eyed Peas was played on…