Horse & Hound

Dettori signs off from Epsom with a flourish

FRANKIE DETTORI has always been the ultimate confidence jockey; when things are going well, as he proved at Ascot in 1996 on the day that he rode seven winners and launched himself into international superstardom, he is unstoppable.

He went into his last Derby day in that sort of form, having landed the Group One double of

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