200/1 Frankie Dettori acca for final Royal Ascot meeting in jockey’s final season
Frankie Dettori is set to retire this season, making this his final Royal Ascot meeting.
Dettori winning is synonymous with Ascot racecourse, ever since he rode out his 'Magnificent Seven', winning all seven races back in September 1996.
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It's estimated that the bookmakers lost £30million because of his achievement - a feat we are likely not going to see ever again.
The cumulative odds of these wins was 25,051-1, and earned one lucky punter an incredible £500,000.
He has recounted many times being told by racegoers how much they won that day - and this year he has a chance to gain a few more winners with rides on prominent chances across the biggest races of the week.
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Dettori, 52, has ridden 77 Royal Ascot winners in all and is set to have to have a few chances in his final year as a jockey in the UK, at a course he thrives at.
Frankie Dettori 200/1 Acca
- 2.30: Inspiral - Tuesday
- 4.20: Chaldean - Tuesday
- 3.40: Soul Sister - Thursday
- 4.20: Free Wind - Saturday
Dettori told : "Royal Ascot is my favourite place in the world without question. It is like the Olympics of racing, but the difference is it takes place every year.
"I love everything about Royal Ascot but in the week before I always get the same combination of nerves and excitement.
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"It is the biggest and best week of my year, I know that I come alive there and I’m in a different zone. It lifts me every time and this year will be so special because it will be my last ever Royal Ascot."
Inspiral 9/4
Dettori's first Group 1 of the acca could be very fitting as Inspiral lines up in the 1m Queen Anne Stakes.
A horse by Frankel, who did exceptionally well here and was the highest ever rated horse using the RPR system.
Inspiral is a four-year-old filly and as such is given a 3lb allowance to the colts in the field.
She's won six times out of her eight runs so far accumulating over £1.2m in prizemoney.
Notably though, she won at Royal Ascot in 2022 by nearly five lengths in exceptional fashion to win the Coronation Stakes, with Dettori on board.
This early in the proceedings, she's as short as 9/4 already and could go in further once the final field is announced in the coming days.
Chaldean 7/4
This Andrew Balding-trained colt is a very exciting colt by Frankel, winning the 2000 Guineas Stakes at Newmarket in May in great fashion too.
Crucially, he will still be able to build on that as he drifted left in the final furlong but that was also when he took the lead.
Paddington was a big winner of the Irish 2000 Guineas in late May, but it's likely there's more to come from this Frankel colt who will suit this Ascot track, where Paddington seemed to not do too well on debut.
Both are however clear winners who love to get ahead of the field which is what makes a great Group 1 horse.
Soul Sister 4/1
Soul Sister won the Oaks at Epsom on Derby weekend at the start of June, beating the red-hot favourite Savethelastdance.
Savethelastdance was sent off at 5/6 favourite under Ryan Moore for Aidan O'Brien.
She was that short due to her incredible 22-length victory in the Cheshire Oaks, but under Dettori for trainers John & Thady Gosden the 11/4 shot won impressively.
There's every chance that form works out better and better as the season progresses.
And she looks like improving herself as there were many times during the race that could have held her back from winning, like taking too keen of a hold in the early stages or hanging left in the final furlong.
This is another filly by Frankel too and to get a 4/1 price on an Oaks winner is an incredible price.
Free Wind 7/2
The Group 2 Hardwicke Stakes is another that will likely see Dettori on board one of the leading fancies.
Free Wind also trained by the Gosdens is a five-year-old mare, by Galileo.
Dettori has been aboard three times in her career and won each time, including by seven lengths in September 2021 in the Group 2 Park Hill Stakes at Doncaster.
She was only raced once in the whole of 2022 and returned from a lengthy layoff in May to win another Group 2 at York.
She's lightly raced for her age and we may not have seen the best of her form yet - and to beat the favourite Hukum, would be just that.
It could also cap off this incredible four-fold priced at 200/1 on talkSPORT BET.
Most of Dettori's rides when winning the Magnificent Seven came at similar prices to these, so it wouldn't be a surprise to see them dispatch of a few shorter priced favourites at his Royal Ascot swansong.
No riders are confirmed as of yet but these are his likely rides that also have a big chance of coming to fruition in the group races, though he will have plenty more in various handicaps.
All odds correct at time of writing
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