There will be more, perhaps many more, days like this one as Frankie Dettori’s farewell tour makes its way around the biggest races in Britain, Europe and beyond, and more opportunities for the only jockey whose first name is enough to reflect on an astonishing career. But it was still clearly a special moment for the adopted son of Newmarket on Saturday as he celebrated a fourth success in the 2,000 Guineas, on Chaldean, on his final start in the season’s first Classic.
Newmarket has been Dettori’s home since he arrived from Italy in the mid-1980s as a 14-year-old stable lad and apprentice jockey.
