Daily Mirror

IT’S THREE AND EASY FOR FRANKIE

- BY DAVID YATES

DID you miss me? Frankie Dettori came back to light up Royal Ascot with an 87-1 treble — spearheade­d by Without Parole’s triumph in the St James’s Palace Stakes.

Twelve months ago, Ascot was missing its favourite son — sidelined by a broken shoulder.

“What a difference a year makes!” laughed the Italian, who will miss next month’s Coral-Eclipse after copping a seven-day whip ban, after the John Gosden-trained Without Parole (right) defended his unbeaten record.

Dettori’s trio — Calyx won the Coventry Stakes before Monarchs Glen captured the Wolferton Handicap — took him past Willie Carson as the third-most successful jockey in Royal Ascot history.

YESTERDAY AT ROYAL ASCOT: SEE PAGE 6

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