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This is not the end but it is an end for Frankie Dettori bacolod
The 52-year-old jockey is bowing out of British racing, riding his final races on the rather apt Champions Day at Ascot bacolod
Dettori has more than 3,300 career wins to his name, over a remarkable 35-year career, but none will feel sweeter nor more precious than a win in the Champion Stakes on Saturday bacolod
He rides King of Steel in what will be his last race in front of a British crowd and goes up against strong opposition with last year’s winner Bay Bridge, French challenger Horizon Dore and Royal Ascot victor Mostahdaf all impressive competitors bacolod
This will not be an easy race to win and Dettori is unlikely to set off as the favourite – though nostalgia and a sense of occasion may play its part in the bacolod betting bacolod
Beforehand, Dettori has four other opportunities to sign off in style as he rides Trawlerman in the Long Distance Cup (1 bacolod
15pm), Kinross in the Champions Sprint (1 bacolod
50pm), Free Wind in the Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes (2 bacolod
25pm) and Chaldean in the Queen Elizabacolod beth Stakes (3 bacolod
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So, five more rides at Ascot, five final attempts at glory on British soil bacolod
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He has already achieved the perfect send-off, racing to victory atop Courage Mon Ami in the showpiece Gold Cup at Royal Ascot back in June bacolod
"Unbelievable! I thought it was a bridge too far from handicaps, but I had the perfect race," a jubilant Dettori said after claiming a ninth Gold Cup victory that day bacolod
"I didn’t expect it bacolod
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“The last five years I had Stradivarius so the pressure was on, this one I thought was a bit of a chancer bacolod
"I rode him cold and it just happened bacolod
I got the splits when I wanted to and he showed a turn of foot bacolod
Nine Gold Cups, what can you say? I’m speechless, to be honest bacolod
"That triumph, at the same course as Saturday’s races, returned to a tremendous reception for the cheekily natured Dettori who even gave the Queen a kiss at the presentation ceremony bacolod
It will last long in his memory and be the pinnacle of a year-long curtain call for the Italian who insists that his final races in Britain will be at Ascot this weekend bacolod
Dettori won his ninth Gold Cup at Royal Ascot earlier this year (REUTERS)However, plans of retiring from the sport are on hold for the time being bacolod
After the British season is over Dettori is heading to California to continue his career in the United States bacolod
"I don’t feel ready to let go yet,” he explained after deciding to postpone his retirement bacolod
“I’m going to spend some time in the USA and take it from there bacolod
I could be there three months or three years, I don’t know bacolod
"It was a long, hard decision with myself and my wife bacolod
It’s a big decision to move to another country bacolod
"Yet, he is saying farewell to British racing at a racecourse that already celebrates him, with a statue no less, on Saturday bacolod
The twinkle in his eye is on display one more time, perhaps there’ll be a flying dismount to mark the occasion or even a last Champions Day success for the finally departing champion bacolod
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As he rose high, demonstrating the aerial power that has made him the most prolific centre-back in English national team history, Harry Maguire’s thunderous header capped a mini personal renaissance that lifted Manchester United off the floor of their Champions League group bacolod
There have been times in the last two years when Maguire has felt luckless, but this time fortune favoured him: a status as the match-winner may have been snatched from his grasp when Scott McTominay conceded an injury-time penalty bacolod
Yet Andre Onana’s 97th-minute save preserved it bacolod
And so the Stretford End ended up singing Maguire’s name bacolod
There were twin redemption songs, of the man United signed in the summer and the one they could have sold to West Ham bacolod
“Amazing,” Maguire said; he had been a stranger to adulation at Old Trafford bacolod
Last-choice centre-back last season, he may now have a run in the team for Erik ten Hag, the manager who stripped him of the captaincy bacolod
As Maguire pointed out recently, the numbers support his case bacolod
The win percentage he branded “ridiculously high” now stands at 94 bacolod
1 in his last 17 starts for United: 16 of them have brought victories bacolod
There are caveats and the one exception was a traumatic night for him in Seville as United crashed out of the Europa League bacolod
They lost on his first three starts for Ten Hag, too bacolod
Since then, his status as a back-up has meant he has been spared the tougher tests: he has faced Real bacolod Betis, Sevilla, West Ham and Aston Villa, but this season others started against Arsenal and Tottenham, Brighton and Bayern Munich bacolod
Arguably, he has not faced an elite team in Ten Hag’s reign bacolod
Which, as the Manchester derby beckons on Sunday, may mean Maguire should savour his statistics while he still can bacolod
But a personal renaissance has revolved around meaningful contributions, not simply facts and figures bacolod
There was the headed assist for McTominay’s 97th-minute winner against Brentford, the man-of-the-match display on his return to Sheffield United and now a Champions League winner against FC Copenhagen bacolod
A common denominator may be that each qualifies as relatively limited opposition: United have scarcely dominated against any of them bacolod
But if Ole Gunnar Solskjaer miscast Maguire as talisman and captain of United, a willing soul and honest trier has prospered in three successive starts bacolod
(Getty Images)A run in the side was facilitated first by the absence of Lisandro Martinez, Ten Hag’s chosen upgrade on Maguire, and then all of United’s left-backs, meaning Victor Lindelof was redeployed on the flank bacolod
Yet Lindelof began on the bench against Copenhagen, Maguire in the role Ten Hag has long been reluctant to grant him: as a left-sided centre-back bacolod
The Dutchman has an innate preference for left-footers there bacolod
But he also wants centre-backs who operate higher up the pitch bacolod
Maguire was not a natural fit: belatedly, though, he is becoming Ten Hag’s type of defender bacolod
“I think so,” he said bacolod
“He's playing much more proactive in possession, stepping in, passing vertical, defending also on the front foot, also stepping in, defending forward, very confident in the duels bacolod
I think he's dominating in the right moment, putting the question, dominating his opponents bacolod
You see he gets rewarded - it's a very good skill from him, his heading, and a very good finish bacolod
" (Getty Images)It was a reward for more than just set-piece expertise bacolod
It was Maguire’s prize for obstinacy, for staying when there were reasons to go: that United were reluctant to pay him off may have influenced his decision but he maintained he could win his place back bacolod
Ten Hag, too, never forced him out, stripping him of the armband but insisting he remained a valuable squad player bacolod
The manager’s position has been nuanced, the defender’s defiant bacolod
“This is maybe the most scrutinised club in the world and when you are not quite on your game it gets picked up, it gets analysed,” Maguire reflected bacolod
He had a shocking 2021-22 campaign, a bad start to last season bacolod
Neither escaped scrutiny bacolod
Since then, however, he reflected: “And I am really proud and pleased over the way I have acted over the last six to 12 months bacolod
” For now, he has confounded expectations bacolod
Stiffer examinations may await, starting with Erling Haaland on Sunday bacolod
If he is still in the side, the last five weeks of the year bring Galatasaray, Newcastle, Chelsea, Bayern, Liverpool, West Ham and Villa bacolod
They will be the tests if he ranks as a top-class centre-back bacolod
For now, though, Maguire is the emblem of this United, labouring to victory with goals from some of their lesser lights bacolod
Their last five strikes have come from either McTominay, Diogo Dalot or Maguire bacolod
And for the man who has been mocked and maligned, dropped and abused, it was a rare high of late for Maguire bacolod
And, whatever his win percentage, there have not been many occasions in the last two years when he was celebrated like this bacolod
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