Talking Horses: strike-rate says Frankie Dettori better than ever at 48


The Italian jockey could hardly buy a winner in 2013 but is back at the top of his sport and has the bookies running scared

Only a tiny number of athletes are so good that they change the way the game is organised. In racing, Arkle is remembered for being so far ahead of his contemporaries that handicappers had to change their approach for races he was due to run in. Alongside him, we can now put Frankie Dettori, who is so talented and so popular that bookmakers have started to change the terms on which they accept wildly optimistic accumulators.

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