Frankie takes bookies to the cleaners
Frankie Dettori finally claimed his first Derby on Saturday on the massive favourite Authorized. All the pre-race chatter was about the little Italian, which is normally a bad sign, but he managed to live up to the hype, as did Authorized, romping home by a country mile, much to the disgust of the bookies.
He compounded their misery 24 hours later, winning the French Derby on on Sunday riding another short odds favourite Lawman. Like red buses. You wait for years and then two come along at once…
The double Derby result is estimated to have cost the bookies around £100M, which I’m sure will upset nobody other than the bookies themselves. After winning all 7 races on the card a few years back when he again cost them a fortune, I suspect that Mr Ladbrookes et al can’t wait for the little man to retire.