Frankie lands big win... and wine!

FRANKIE DETTORI’S decision to swap York for Deauville paid dividends again yesterday when he landed the Prix Morny on the impressive Campanelle.

Dettori’s sixth win in the Group One two-year-old contest on the Wesley Ward-trained filly — who had won the Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot — followed last weekend’s successes at Deauville on Palace Pier in the Group One Prix Jacques Le Marois and Mishriff in the Group Two Prix Guillaume D’Ornano.

The Italian opted to base himself in Normandy over the last two weekends rather than ride at York’s Ebor Meeting as a trade-off to compete within Covid-19 travel restrictions

Dettori will have a coronavirus test today, with elite athlete quarantine rules meaning he will have a few days to regain his race-riding legs before partnering dual Arc winner Enable in the September Stakes at Kempton on Saturday week.

Dettori said: ‘I have had a fantastic week and some great results. I have filled my car with wine, baguettes and cheese, I will travel through the night, get my test tomorrow and then lock myself in the house for a week.’

Campanelle decisively beat Clive Cox-trained Coventry Stakes winner Nando Parrado by two lengths with Richard Fahey’s Rhythm Master third, a neck further back.

Ward said Campanelle will be given a tentative entry in Newmarket’s Cheveley Park Stakes but her priority will be the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf on her home track of Keeneland in November.