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Frankie Dettori
Champion
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Born
Dec 15, 1970
Age
42
Lanfranco "Frankie" Dettori, MBE is an Italian horse racing jockey and celebrity. Dettori has been Champion Jockey on three occasions and has ridden the winners of more than 500 Group races. He has had many successes in his role of stable jockey to Godolphin… Read More
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Frankie Dettori Invites Cbb Rivals Spencer Pratt And Heidi Montag To His House With Neil 'Razor' RuddockDaily Mail (UK) - Feb 05, 2013 -
Celebrity Big Brother 2013: Frankie Dettori And Tricia Penrose Exit The House Following Double EvictionDaily Mail (UK) - Jan 24, 2013 -
Speidi Receive 10 Out Of 10 Nominations To Join Paula Hamilton And Frankie Dettori For The First EvictionDaily Mail (UK) - Jan 08, 2013 -
Celebrity Big Brother 2013: Frankie Dettori Keeps Neil Raddock Basement Bound As He Sends Speidi Into The Luxury HouseDaily Mail (UK) - Jan 05, 2013
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1970
Birth
Born in 1970.
TEENAGE
1985
15 Years Old
The following year he went to Great Britain where he apprenticed with trainer Luca Cumani at Newmarket in 1985 and became a stable jockey soon after.
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1986
16 Years Old
His first win came at the age of 16 in Turin in November 1986, while his first victory in Britain was the following June.
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TWENTIES
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Dettori's most celebrated achievement was his riding of all seven winners on Champion's Day at Ascot in 1996.
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1998
28 Years Old
In an interview with the BBC's Newsnight, he admitted that he used to take diuretic drugs to keep his weight down. Dettori said he had used a wide range of substances before the Jockey Club banned them in June 1998 after a spate of positive drug tests revealed how prevalent their use was becoming: "I took Lasix, pee pills, diuretics, laxatives; all sorts."
THIRTIES
On 29 December 2000 he received an honorary MBE.
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2003
33 Years Old
He quit his position as a team captain on the BBC quiz A Question of Sport in 2003, when he was apparently stung by a question from a participant as to when he retired from riding.
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He was rewarded for his new found dedication by becoming the British Champion Jockey in 2004.
2006
36 Years Old
Thieves stole many of his medals from his home on the evening of 25 August 2006.
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The Epsom Derby was the only British Classic Race Dettori had not won in his career, until his fifteenth attempt on 2 June 2007 on the Peter Chapple-Hyam trained Authorized.
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