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- The Guardian Wednesday 31 July 2019
(^40) Sport
Racing
Nerveless Dettori celebrates
too soon on Stradivarius
Greg Wood
Goodwood
Thirty-two years after riding the fi rst
winner of his career at Goodwood
in June 1987, Frankie Dettori moved
a step closer to completing his best
season at the sport’s highest level
when Stradivarius took the Group
One Goodwood Cup for the third year
running here yesterday.
Dettori has ridden 10 Group One
winners in 2019 and his 2001 total of 16
Group and Grade One victories, set at
the high-water mark of his Godolphin
days, is now within sight.
After the high drama of Enable’s
head-to-head with Crystal Ocean in
Saturday’s King George, Stradivarius
provided Dettori with a relatively
straightforward success. The fi ve-
year-old rarely wins by more than a
length, and had just a neck to spare
over Dee Ex Bee here after Dettori,
by his own admission, started his
celebrations “a stride too soon”. As he
also pointed out, though, “everyone
was panicking but I’ve been here
before, so I know exactly where the
winning post is.”
Dettori has another ride on a Group
One favourite in today’s Sussex Stakes
and has already won as many top-tier
events this year as he has in any season
since 2007.
And he is racking up the big-race
wins at the age of 48, seven years after
his career appeared to be in irrevers-
ible decline when he was banned for
six months for testing positive for
cocaine.
“[Enable and Stradivarius] are the
two most popular and precious horses
that we’ve got in training in England,”
Dettori said. “Stradivarius wastes
very little energy and he’s very tough
mentally. He’s never going to be fl ash
and win by 10 but he gets the job done.
All I have to do is put him in the place
to win the race and he does the rest,
he’s a perfect partner.
“It’s important for the public to
have a horse who stays in training for
so long and keeps on delivering, and
with Stradivarius you know what to
expect. You’re going to get a fi ght and
that’s why people latched on to him
and love him so much. ”
Stradivarius may not get the
chance to add any further Group
Ones to Dettori’s tally this year as
both the Lonsdale Stakes at York next
month and the Long Distance Cup on
Champions Day in October are Group
Twos.
Victory in the Lonsdale, though,
would secure a £1m bonus – the
Stayers’ Million – for the second year
running and the best news for the
chestnut’s many fans is that Bjorn
Nielsen, Stradivarius’s owner and
breeder, is planning to keep him in
training at six.
Pinatubo had a strong claim to be
the best two-year-old to race in Europe
this year as he went to post for the
Group Two Vintage Stakes. His case is
unanswerable after he showed instant
and sustained acceleration to power
fi ve lengths clear of a useful fi eld.
“You really can’t get excited
watching him in the mornings but in
the afternoons there’s no doubt about
it, he excites you,” Charlie Appleby,
Pinatubo’s trainer, said. “As James
[Doyle, his rider] said, he just wheeled
him out there and as soon as he did
he came on the bridle and wanted to
go forward.
“We’ve seen that acceleration on his
last three starts now. Going forward,
we’d spoken about it before [Tuesday’s
race] and thought the [Group One]
National Stakes [at The Curragh in
September] would be a likely target.”
Goodwood 1.50 Lil Rockerfeller 2.25 Dubai
Tradition 3.00 Liberty Beach (nap) 3.35 Phoenix
Of Spain 4.10 Flippa The Strippa 4.45 Nearooz
5.55 Lyndon B (nb)
Perth 2.00 Braid Blue 2.35 Prettylittlething
3.10 Placedela Concorde 3.45 Amalfi Doug
4.20 King’s Wharf 4.55 Angel’s Envy
5.25 Saint Or Sinner
Redcar 2.10 Dutch Decoy 2.45 Sorbonne
3.20 First Flight 3.55 Mina Vagante 4.30 Salam
Zayed 5.00 Searanger 5.30 Fox Hill 6.00 Firby
Sandown Park 5.35 Diviner 6.05 Beignet
6.35 Wild Thunder 7.10 Muraad 7.45 New Jazz
8.20 Buckman Tavern
Leicester 5.45 Barbarella 6.20 Beechwood
James 6.55 Teodora De Vega 7.30 Always
Fearless 8.05 Fair Alibi 8.40 Kermouster
Greg Wood’s tips
Frankie Dettori eases
Stradivarius to a
neck victory in the
Goodwood Cup
Athletics
Semenya
blocked from
defending title
The Swiss supreme court has
reversed a ruling that suspended a
regulation imposed by the sport’s gov-
erning body, the IAAF, regarding tes-
tosterone levels pending her appeal.
The ruling eff ectively means the
South African would be obliged to sub-
mit to hormone-reducing medication
- something she has resolutely refused
to consider – in order to continue to
compete.
In a statement Semenya () said: “I
am very disappointed to be kept from
defending my hard-earned title but
this will not deter me from continuing
my fi ght for the human rights of all of
the female athletes concerned.”
Semenya has twice appealed
against IAAF rules preventing her
from running without medication.
She said in an interview with the BBC
earlier this month that she felt she had
been “crucifi ed” in the course of her
fi ght against the IAAF’s complex rules
regarding “athletes with diff erences of
sex development”.
The IAAF said it wanted the suspen-
sion of the rules to be reversed to avoid
“serious confusion” among athletes
and event organisers and “to protectwas not fulfi lled. Semenya has vowed
to continue her legal battle.
Dorothee Schramm, the lawyer
leading her appeal, said: “The judge’s
procedural decision has no impact on
the appeal itself. We will continue to
pursue Caster’s appeal and fi ght for
her fundamental human rights. A race
is always decided at the fi nish line.”
In a statement, the IAAF said: “We
understand the Swiss federal tribu-
nal will be issuing its full decision on
Wednesday and the IAAF will com-
ment once the tribunal makes its rea-
soning public.” PA Mediathe integrity of the sport”. Last month
Semenya won an interim suspension
in the Swiss court but this has now
been reversed after the court found
the “high threshold” for suspensionCaster Semenya has expressed disap-
pointment over a court ruling which
means she will be prevented from
defending her 800m title at the world
athletics championships in Doha next
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