“Bizarre,” said Frankie Dettori after finishing sixth behind the front‑running Quickthorn in the Goodwood Cup here on Tuesday. “I’ve seen some weird things, but that was bizarre.”
It was a fair way to sum up a very odd Group One race but, strange though it was, the way it unfolded was hardly unprecedented. Dettori and his fellow riders had been forewarned about the tactics Tom Marquand would adopt on the winner, but they were apparently not forearmed.
