Frankie Dettori Royal Ascot winners

He added: “It’s 81 and every one is special. I’d be here all day talking about all of them, but the last Gold Cup was the biggest race of the week and to win that was amazing.

“It hasn’t hit me yet that it’s my last Royal Ascot because it’s been so good; I won the Gold Cup, had four winners, got past 80, which is what I wanted to do.

““It has been sensational. I can still claim that I retired second at the all-time best meeting in the world.”

Dettori was just 19 when partnering Markofdistinction to victory in the 1990 Queen Anne Stakes for his first Royal Ascot success.

The countdown is on to the legendary @FrankieDettori's final #RoyalAscot…

So let's remind ourselves of ALL his spectacular victories here 👑👏

FIRST UP ⏩
🐴 Markofdistinction
📍 Queen Anne Stakes
📆 1990
📝 1/77#FrankieAtRoyalAscot pic.twitter.com/NLG0JomSkI

— Ascot Racecourse (@Ascot) April 4, 2023

The Italian’s most successful campaigns came in 1998 and 2019, riding seven winners on each occasion.

He landed a four-timer on Ladies’ Day in 2019, with A’ali, Sangarius, Star Catcher and Stradivarius all obliging.

Saeed bin Suroor trained 24 of Frankie’s victors, with John Gosden next best on 22, while American handler Wesley Ward has provided four memorable strikes.

Dettori has been the leading jockey at Royal Ascot six times and his longest-priced scorer was 28/1 shot Invisible Man in the 2010 Royal Hunt Cup.

The Gold Cup has been his favourite elite-level contest with nine triumphs, while he had eight wins in the Group Two Ribblesdale Stakes.

“One of my proudest moments was to win the Ribblesdale on Phantom Gold for The Queen, that was a big plus in my Royal Ascot career,” recalls Dettori.

Even the famous dress code gets Dettori in the mood, as he added: “My hat comes out only for five days a year! It gets all polished and ready to go and I like it, it’s part of the tradition.

“That’s why Royal Ascot is so unique. Even people who don’t know anything about racing, they know about Royal Ascot because of the traditional dressing up.”

Here are Frankie’s winning rides in the eight Royal Ascot races that now carry Group One status:

Ascot Gold Cup

1992 Drum Taps
1993 Drum Taps
1998 Kayf Tara
2004 Papineau
2012 Colour Vision
2018 Stradivarius
2019 Stradivarius
2020 Stradivarius
2023 Courage Mon Ami

Queen Anne Stakes

1990 Markofdistinction
1997 Allied Forces
1998 Intikhab
2003 Dubai Destination
2004 Refuse to Bend
2007 Ramonti
2021 Palace Pier

Prince of Wales’s Stakes

2001 Fantastic Light
2002 Grandera
2011 Rewilding
2019 Crystal Ocean

St James’s Palace Stakes

1997 Starborough
2016 Galileo Gold
2018 Without Parole
2020 Palace Pier

Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes

1995 So Factual
2015 Undrafted

Coronation Stakes

2020 Alpine Star
2022 Inspiral

Commonwealth Cup

2019 Advertise
2021 Campanelle

King’s Stand Stakes

1994 Lochsong

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