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Whenever they have a big occasion at Ascot racecourse, Frankie Dettori is liable to take over and so it was on Saturday, when the Royal meeting finished with an eight-race bang and the effervescent Italian won three of them. This has been the busiest ever Royal Ascot, extended to 36 races, and must surely have been a severe test of the fitness of a 49-year-old jockey who had been on an enforced holiday until three weeks ago, but the old familiar Tigger act was on display as he bent his fingers into heart shapes for the winning horses and fired imaginary arrows at TV cameras.
It seems a terrible pity that such showmanship should be wasted on an empty grandstand but if any rider in the history of the game could be relied upon to rise above a lack of atmosphere and project his happiness for the folks watching at home, it would be Dettori. He fairly bounced up to a laptop when asked to join a Zoom meeting for the benefit of reporters, crying: “Hey hey! Ho ho! Come on, keep it short and sweet!”
Written by Chris Cook
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