“I thought I would cry,” Frankie Dettori said here on Saturday after bringing down the curtain on his extraordinary career in Britain – for this year, at least – with a preposterous, last-to-first flourish on King Of Steel in the Champion Stakes that completed a 39-1 double on the day. “But I’m too happy to cry, to be honest. I didn’t expect it, it’s fantastic. What a day.”
Win or lose, this was always going to be Dettori’s afternoon, but in the end, he made sure that it was his from start to finish.
