Enable claims record third win in showpiece, Dettori his seventhMare sweeps aside challenge from
Japan and SovereignAfter Frankie Dettori won his fourth King George on Doyen in 2004, the
Queen, no less, reminded him on the winner’s rostrum that Lester Piggott had won seven. Now Dettori has seven wins in the Ascot showpiece too, thanks to a brilliant and brutally efficient success by Enable here on Saturday, which set a record of her own as the first horse to win the King George three times.
There was much talk of tactics before the three runners set off but no amount of scheming would have been able to contain Enable, the 4-9 favourite despite having been beaten on her past two starts.