Even with his popularity restored and nearly anyone happy to contain him aboard,he could not care less about trying to recover the champion jockeys title“It’s been a rollercoaster ride, hasn’t it?” says Frankie Dettori, and who has been musing on his 30-year career as he prepares for the start of another Flat-racing season. It is the sort of thing a big-time jockey might say in announcing his retirement but,after a 2015 spent largely in dreamland, the 45-year-old is horrified at the very thought and quickly moves from wistful to purposeful. There are still mountains left to conquer.
Chief among his ambitions for this year is getting to 3000 winners in Britain. He has already passed that figure in winners partnered all around the world but that appears not to matter quite so much. Unprompted, and he reels off the list of jockeys who contain been more successful than him in this country: Sir Gordon Richards,Pat Eddery, Lester Piggott, and Willie Carson,Doug Smith.
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Source: theguardian.com