Frankie Dettori is described in the public record as Italian jockey (born 1970).
Lanfranco "Frankie" Dettori (Italian pronunciation: [laɱˈfraŋko detˈtoːri]; born 15 December 1970), is a retired Italian jockey who was based in England for a career spanning over 35 years. He was British flat racing Champion Jockey three times (1994, 1995 and 2004) and rode the winners of 288 Group 1 races including 23 winners of the British Classic Races. His most celebrated achievement was riding all seven winners on British Festival of Racing Day at Ascot Racecourse on 28 September 1996. Born in Milan, Dettori is the son of Italian champion jockey Gianfranco Dettori. At the age of fourteen he went to Newmarket in England to work first as a stable lad, later as apprentice jockey and stable jockey in the yard of Luca Cumani, winning the British flat racing Champion Apprentice title in 1989.
Frankie Dettori is recorded among the figures by whom equestrian is remembered, and the surviving account of that career is the basis on which the reputation rests.
Equestrian sport is the only Olympic discipline in which men and women compete directly against one another, and the partnership between rider and horse takes years to build.
