• Crystal Ocean runner-up for second successive year
• Dettori: ‘We gave the public the race they came to see’
For John Gosden, Enable’s trainer, it resembled the men’s final at Wimbledon, 12-all in the final set. Others saw a heavyweight title fight, with two great boxers toe-to-toe. But the image that perhaps came into most minds after Enable’s narrow defeat of Crystal Ocean in the King George here on Saturdaywas Grundy’s epic duel with Bustino in the same race nearly half a century ago.
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Written by Greg Wood at Ascot
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jul/27/king-george-queen-elizabeth-stakes-enable-frankie-dettori under the title “Frankie Dettori and Enable dig deep to win epic King George at Ascot”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
