{"id":295043,"date":"2023-10-31T23:25:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T23:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/?p=295043"},"modified":"2023-10-31T23:25:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T23:25:33","slug":"frankie-who-dettori-feeling-liberated-after-moving-to-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/horse-racing\/frankie-who-dettori-feeling-liberated-after-moving-to-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Frankie who? Dettori feeling liberated after moving to California"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Frankie who? Dettori feels liberated by anonymity after moving to California to extend his career as the 52-year-old sets his sights on\u00a0Breeders Cup glory<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Frankie Dettori says he feels reinvigorated after starting a new life in America\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Jockey flew out last week and has been house-hunting with his wife,\u00a0Catherine<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>He gave his Breeders Cup hope Inspiral a gallop\u00a0around the Santa Anita track<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Frankie Dettori says he feels reinvigorated after starting a new life in America and feels his decision was vindicated by a bar-room incident last week.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian shelved his decision to retire last month, having made up his mind to carry on in August.<\/p>\n<p>The pressure of living with a secret, he explained, had left him restless.<\/p>\n<p>Dettori, who gave his main Breeders Cup hope Inspiral a gallop around the Santa Anita track on Tuesday morning, flew out to California last week and has been house-hunting with his wife, Catherine.<\/p>\n<p>He has also been getting to know the local area and when he went out after racing on Saturday, the 52-year-old found it liberating to not be mobbed at the bar.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/31\/22\/77245421-0-image-a-1_1698791125286.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Frankie Dettori flew out last week and has been house-hunting in California<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I\u2019ve been making connections with all sorts of trainers,\u2019 said Dettori. \u2018It is amazing, really. I went out to a restaurant with Catherine; I went to get a drink at the bar and I found myself looking around in case people were looking at me but nobody was bothered.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I started talking to a random person at the bar and they didn\u2019t have a clue who I was! It\u2019s brilliant. There is a weight off my shoulders. I feel good, relaxed. The lifestyle suits me.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It ticks all the boxes in the twilight of my career.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Aside from John Gosden\u2019s brilliant filly Inspiral, Dettori will also ride King Of Steel in the Breeders Cup Turf \u2014 the colt who gave him such a remarkable final ride at Ascot in the Champion Stakes.<\/p>\n<p>The colt, trained by Roger Varian, had a ferocious race 10 days ago and this target wasn\u2019t originally on the cards but owners Amo Racing were ambitious to have a runner on the biggest stage.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I\u2019m not confident \u2014 he had to fight hard and he had a tough race,\u2019 said Dettori. \u2018I\u2019m sure Roger wouldn\u2019t have brought him here if he didn\u2019t think he had recovered.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/racing\/article-12695419\/Frankie-Jockey-Dettori-feeling-liberated-moving-California-extend-career-52-year-old-sets-sights-Breeders-Cup-glory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frankie who? Dettori feels liberated by anonymity after moving to California to extend his career as the 52-year-old sets his sights on\u00a0Breeders Cup glory Frankie Dettori says he feels reinvigorated after starting a new life in America\u00a0 Jockey flew out last week and has been house-hunting with his wife,\u00a0Catherine He gave his Breeders Cup hope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Frankie who? 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