Jockey has highest-profile win of career at NewmarketThunderous upsets favourite at York to land Dante Stakes Frankie Dettori’s loss was Hollie Doyle’s gain on Thursday, when the Italian went to York to ride four losers and missed the winning mount aboard Dame Malliot in the Princess Of Wales, the big race on day one of Newmarket’s July meeting. Doyle stepped into the breach and, thanks to some improvised tactics, landed the biggest success of her career to date.
Dettori may have imagined he wasn’t missing much, as Dame Malliot was having her first run of the year and taking on bigger names such as Enbihaar, Alounak and last year’s winner, Communique. The filly was allowed to start at 8-1 but put her big stride to devastating effect and came home clear, just as she had done in a Listed race here last summer on the only previous occasion that Doyle rode her.