Dettori blazes into record books
1996 — Champion jockey Frankie Dettori blazed into the record books, winning all seven races on the card at cumulative odds of 25,095-1. Dettori took the opening day of the big two-day autumn festival by storm and cost the bookmakers millions in the process. The history-making successes were on Wall Street (2-1 favourite), Diffident (12-1), Mark of Esteem (100-30), Decorated Hero (7-1), Fatefully (7-4 favourite), Lochangel (5-4 joint favourite) and Fujiyama Crest (21 favourite). The feat surpassed all others and brought a big crowd to its feet as Dettori booted home his last winner, making all the running and holding on narrowly to win by a neck. Ex-champion Willie Carson had six winners from seven rides at Newcastle in 1990.
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