Racing icon Frankie Dettori to come out of retirement for special Doncaster race
The sports legend will be back at Town Moor for the St Leger
Racing icon Frankie Dettori is to come out of retirment for a special race at this year’s St Leger meeting in Doncaster.
The Italian jockey, who won Doncaster’s premier race six times during a glittering career, will take place in the the Leger Legends race at this year’s meeting.
The UK's only charity race, The Betfred Leger Legends sees ex-professional jockeys return to the saddle once more to raise money for the Injured Jockeys Fund
The race will take place on Betfred Gents Day on September 11 as part of the four day meeting.
The 55-year-old, whose career spanned more than 35 years, was British flat racing Champion Jockey three times and rode 287 winners, including 23 winners of the British Classic Races.
His most celebrated achievement was riding all seven winners on British Festival of Racing Day at Ascot Racecourse on 28 September 1996.
Born in Milan, at the age of fourteen he went to Newmarket to work first as a stable lad, later as a jockey in the yard of Luca Cumani, winning the British champion apprentice jockey in 1989.
He was appointed stable jockey for Sheikh Mohammed's newly founded Godolphin Racing in 1994 and during the next eighteen years rode most of his worldwide big race victories in Godolphin's royal-blue colours.
He announced in December 2022 that 2023 would be his final year of professional riding.