With 77 Royal Ascot winners to his name, including eight Gold Cup triumphs, seven King George winners and the Magnificent Seven in September 1996, Frankie Dettori will race for the final time at Ascot in 2023. Dettori has taken centre stage at Ascot for over 30 years and admits that by day five of this year’s meeting he will cry because he ‘will know it is the end’. After huge success at Royal Ascot over the years, the Italian believes he’s finishing his career at the right time: ‘My heart doesn’t want to stop. But my brain tells me that I’m 52 and if I’d like to finish on the top I think this is the right time.’
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