Dettori’s Mighty good chance

MIGHTY Ulysses can provide Frankie Dettori with a high-profile win on his first day back riding for the Gosden team since their post-Ascot sabbatical in the Edmondson Hall Solicitors Sir Henry Cecil Stakes at Newmarket.

Much has been written and said about what happened at Royal Ascot – or rather afterwards – but the pair have clearly resolved any differences.

It would have been a shame if one of racing’s biggest partnerships had ended in such fashion, but it now appears the 51-year-old Dettori is set for a final swansong before he eventually calls time on a brilliant career.

Dettori thrives at the bigger meetings and it would be just like him to dominate proceedings at Headquarters.

Mighty Ulysses has run four times this season and once connections realised he did not stay beyond a mile in the Blue Riband Trial at Epsom, he has improved with every performance. He went close in a big Haydock handicap off top-weight but ran way above market expectations at Ascot when beaten just threequarters of a length in the St James’s Palace Stakes.

Dettori did nothing wrong that day, but he will be doubly determined to make sure he brings him home in front on this occasion and a reproduction of that effort will be good enough.

Persian Force can get the better of Little Big Bear in the Close Brothers July Stakes. Richard Hannon’s youngster is on course to be one of the best Brocklesby winners of all time, and found just Archie Watson’s Bradsell too good in the Coventry Stakes.

Logic suggests Masekela will take all the beating in the Bahrain Trophy, but slight preference is for Zechariah.