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CIAO CHAMPION FRANKIE DETTORI
The Straits Times
|February 03, 2026
Legendary Italian jockey hangs up boots for good, signing off with two winners in Brazil
The final chapter to Frankie Dettori's feted 35-year-old riding career could not have been better scripted - one last flying dismount for the world to see.
At his final race-riding meeting, which came at Gavea racecourse in Brazil on Feb 1, the flamboyant 55-year-old Italian jockey got his fairy-tale ending with a double.
Dettori, who had first retired in 2023 but changed his mind to resurrect his career in the US since late 2023, announced that he would this time hang up his boots for good back in October 2025.
But he would not bow out before one last fling at the Breeders' Cup in Del Mar, US, on Nov 1 and at farewell cameos in South America, a box he always wanted to tick.
"It's something I've always wanted to do," he then said of one of the rare continents he had not conquered.
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