Al Shaqab are to pay the famed jockey half as much this year, on the grounds that they expect to have fewer runners in Britain
It’s a terrible thing when middle-aged workers, having given their best years to a company, are tossed on the scrapheap because they’ve risen up the pay scale and become too expensive. Such are my thoughts as I contemplate this news that Frankie Dettori has had his annual retainer cut in half by Al Shaqab.
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