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Frankie Dettori

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first: 2006-01-15
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“Well, it's a bit ironic, but the book I like to take is The History of the Derby because I never won it, so maybe they'll give me a few tips how to win it.”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Number eight I chose this crazy song because every day I spend two hours in the gym to keep my weight down this tune is called Insonia play by Faithless.”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“At some stage are left to retire, but it's one thing that is missing in my CV. I want everything else in the world. And it'd be nice to say, well, I've done everything, but right now I haven't.”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Times have you run it 13 14 times. It took so good on Richard till he was forty nine to win us, and he was one of our greatest jockeys.”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And he came back again at 55. He means a rule of his own. See, Lester Pigoris, Lester Pigot. You can't compare him to anybody else.”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I'm thirty five soon, I would say because I love the job so much, and as long as I keep healthy, I think another ten years.”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was his vision, really, to send me to England, to the rains in the well, to send me to America. So, you know, obviously he's very proud because he was a big influence and big part of what I've did, you know. If it wasn't for his vision, then... I wouldn't have been where I am now.”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Me and my father had a bit of a conflict we didn't speak to each other for two or three years, and the plane crash really was what broke the ice and we came to terms that life was too short. Let's not end I have fantastic relationship with my dad now.”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah I didn't know if I wanted to be a jockey or family man. I didn't know. And I was doing neither good. And the thing was I did two years of question of sport. Well, I extremely enjoyed. And one day on the panel I had this great rugby player called Thomas Castagnier and his French. And it was really nice. And this is pre-show. He's just about to come on and he said to me, oh, Frankie, how long have you been retired? And only Danny Daunty, Miss as well. People think that I do this for a job. Actually, my job is a jockey. So I decided, right, I'm going to give it up and I'll be champion again. Rego number seven Robbie Williams and Feel I love the song and even my son Leo sings it. That's why I chose this. It reminds me of my family.”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, for a split second, I was thinking of retiring, I'll be honest with you, because I thought, well, the hello this, why, you know, we just had a young boy, Leo, was our first son. I'll be honest with it, I think it took me three years to get over it.”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean he absolutely scared the hell out of me we cheated death really you know we should have been dead and we are alive so”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He was trying to basically go out there and try to get the body of the pally out. You know, I remember Ray really lost was going absolutely mad and he was beating the ground and kicking hisself and was screaming. It was awful to see, you know, and I had the mobile in my pocket, so I gave it to Ray and he called obviously 999 ambulances and everything.”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And thank God that the luggage door, a little luggage door behind the door itself, you can only open from the outside with impact he opened. So there was a way out. So Olly then I realized that I brought my legs so I couldn't really move very fast. So I shoved half of my body through it and Ray gave me a good kick up the backside and pushed me out. and Ray got out and just grabbed him by the scruff for the neck and he dragged me twenty thirty yards away because he knew I was going to explode. So by the time he went back to try to get the pilot out. Then all things explored and just become a big fireball. And I could see Ray took his jacket off and was trying to beat the flames down. With his jacket. I mean, this is a ball of fire and it got three degrees bird in his face and hands.”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“then I could see everything, but I couldn't focus on it. I could see the two engines on fire, I could see Patrick the pilot with his head down the dashboard. Well, it looked dead. But I didn't know I was trying to ask myself, am I on the other side? Is this afterlife? I just couldn't do any, I couldn't move, I couldn't focus. And then all of a sudden, Ray started screaming, get out, get out because we're full of fuel. I went for the door because I was closest to the door and the door was like all crumbled and squashed. You couldn't even It didn't resemble to a door, we were basically locked in now.”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh yes, without a doubt, I mean when the plane was going down, I mean the plane didn't go up that high but high enough, you know, and you're going at one hundred fifty miles an hour in a flimsy plane, so when you're gonna hit the ground, you're gonna Smash and die radiant. And luckily we clicked the bank with one of the wings and it probably softened the impact. and that's what probably saved us. Yold enough to your seat like You want to try to get inside it. You can hear the horrible crescendo noise of the engines and he's awful feeling. You could see the engine on fire. And I turn round to Ray and swore and I said, We're going to die. And then massive impact with the ground. Basically, we must roll two or three times. Then the plane came to a halt. And I don't know if I was concost or not, but I had this kind of”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Rifle shik mom, and I spend a lot of time in Dubai and are extremely love it. That's why I chose this track, which reminds me of Dubai.”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Regular number six is simply red, fair grounds, one of my favourite tunes, reminds me of Dubai. That's when I first met Michael, was lead singer or simply read.”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was determined. And I really believed I could, I really, I had 100% of myself, then I could do it. You know, and everything came to fruition, then I was champion that year after.”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My father's got a house in Morocco, so I lock myself in there for two weeks, so then I concentrated on, you know, getting really light so I could start the season in my ultimate minimum weight. And I go down to a stone. It was probably too light”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I did, yes. Then I refocused myself and I realized now I want to be champion and I want to be remembered not for the wrong things I do. I want to remember something good that I can do.”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was with him eight years. I was without anything and I was grateful to my parents who came to England and tried to put me back on the straight now really.”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Got in your pocket. Yeah, and realize then what I've done. Cried. And I was lucky enough for me the amount of cocaine that I had on me was so small that I go away with a caution. But it was the turning point basically made me realize that I wasn't invincible.”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Went to the Cup final, went to Si Arsenal, a paint in my face, got extremely drunk, end up in a nightclub in London. Did some goat with it by the police, go arrested.”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't, all the toys, all the girls, I didn't have any parents who tell me what to do. I was basically away with the fairies, you know.”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, I'm not a musician whatsoever, but if I have to learn one instrument, it'd be the backpipe and be able to play Amazing Race on a backpipe. Wouldn't it be some party trick? Honey, get the bagpipes out. We got some friends around.”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“before they come to the Absolutely. I mean, to really analyze, we are kind of psychiatrist divorces, you know, because we have to really understand what's going through their mind to make sure that they play the game with us. So we have to really become a bond together. And every horse is different, like a human being, and you have to have every key for every character to make sure that you are an item, and that way you can win races. Recon five is amazing grace. It's a song that every time I hear it makes me cry and it was played to me by Ronnie Wood at my wedding and up to this day it was an amazing day.”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Now it's not allowed to do it. And I remember we were called in front of the stewards. And I remember saying to my father, look, annoy your son, but you can ride his horse for him. That was pretty embarrassing.”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This right and he was eight runners and four of us were detories. It's been amazing feat really and it was really really funny because myself and my father were riding for the same stables. It was only my second race in my life, really green as grass. And I remember being in front. Half my eyes closed and I was pushing like. And then one came by me. And then my father went on and he won the race and I finished third. was good, so I came back in and everybody was laughing at me. I mean, they weren't just laughing, they were in hysterics. And it wasn't until I came back to the jockey's room that I was watching the replay, then I realized my father was actually hitting my horse to try to make it go fast.”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was I was free, as free as free little bird, and I say then I was up to all sorts, basically, you know, tried to get into pubs and nightclubs and everything, you know, tried to grow up, really.”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, actually I forgot to tell you the reason I chose this song is because it reminds me this is when I started courting my wife Catherine.”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Reckon number four, where I think everybody's got must have a Bob Marley CD in their house. So I picked three little birds because... Very jolly songs, and I like”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The odds were still good. Ah, it was 33 to 1, 20 to 1, and I think I won short of £2,000, and I was only about 15. I had £2,000. I didn't know what to do with”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The biggest swing I remember Betwest Dip. In the Grand National because Richard the Woodie's father or George, myself and him, you know, we were a bit of a knight him because nobody wanted to speak to old George because he was too old and nobody could speak to me because I couldn't understand them. So myself a George used to sit in the tack room having sandwiches for breakfast and like a wise old man he said to me, my son's going to win the national this year. And I believed him. I believed him. So I used to go every weekend to place my five pound on it.”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, and it was easier for me to get in betting shops because in Newmarket everybody's the same size. We all five foot. So I never had the questions like, you can't come here son because you're not 18. So I got away with it.”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was rough, yeah, of course I got a few digs and in the ribs and I got stripped off naked a few times they usually carry on”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was very hard talking about 14 years old. Landing in another country, I mean, the family I stayed with, really nice, and with kind of sign language to me the first day I arrived at dinner was a six, you know, with fingers. And they were trying to be nice, and I was offered kind of tin ravioli or heinz ravioli, whatever it was. And they thought, well, we're going to try to make him feel welcome. And you couldn't even give it to the dogs in Italy, that kind of stuff. And I didn't eat a thing of it. And so that wasn't the perfect start.”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I've still not mastered the language yet, but obviously a lot better than then. I think I came to England with hello and goodbye kind of words.”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, no, I try not to know because he's very unhealthy for you, but I try those sorts of remedies. And that's what you do when you're a jockey. I mean, I try to take laxatives or I try pea p-pills. sweating everything”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, probably yes, you know, because obviously lost one child and didn't want me to follow suit. Record number three Madonna into the groove. Amazing song then and even when I listen to it now I big admirer Madonna. I think it's an amazing song.”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Maybe six around that, I think. And I remember really vividly because my dad never picked me up from school, never took me there or picked me And I was a shock to see him outside my school with this horse box. And he picked me up and we drove to a field and it was these three beautiful ponies and he asked me to pick one. And that's where the lover horses came because I picked this beautiful palomino pony and that was it. That was the first sight.”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yet well my mum come from Circus family and basically she was 16 and working in the circus doing all sorts, you know, trapeze artists and performing with other things. She was very supple. Used to put her head between her legs and”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, I mean, I must say I wasn't exactly great from the beginning. I only became what I am now by hard work and tried to learn from the best really, but I was a very average rider when I started.”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's I must say he You know I spoke to him many a times and he always says to me look nobody gave me a book to be a parent and I did what I thought best at the time he also had a very very hard upbringing and I didn't realize that my dad was so hard until I met everybody else. I mean, I thought all dads were like that. You know, it was old fashioned.”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Every day when they go to work they look round at least the ambulance is actually following you all day long, you know. But that's the hook as well, isn't it? Yeah, probably, and the day that you start to think about is the day you have to retire, really. So you just have to go out there and do it. We shall talk about retirement later. Let's have record number two. ACDC back in black. I picked this because I think I can remember it was 10. In those days was like an unbelievable things to have this thing round your head and you can carry around. It wasn't a ghetto blast, it was a portable thing. Cool. Part of growing up and that's why it distracts.”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Little sun's wood fell, and the force of his fall made him kind of bounds, and the horse behind him hit him really like a buffalo head on. And then and then I knew that he was serious, you know, and it was pronounced that. Minutes later, really, just internal injuries. The brutal force of speed and And the size of the animal that unfortunately he died. You know, you do think about it, but when you're in the race, the adrenaline takes over and you carry on really. But that's why, isn't it? Jock is, as you said earlier on, you're quite aggressive when you're out there. I suppose all that banter and all that kind of knocking around with each other, joshing and so on, because you're all aware of the danger you're about to face. How many people can say that?”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Wherever they want to go, but when we say fast, it's, I mean, what kind of speed are we talking about here? And we race within half an inch to each other. So would you say it was the most dangerous sport in the world, do you think? For fatal accident, yes, is definitely the most dangerous. Fatal accident. Yeah, we probably have one a year. When you do have a fall, unfortunately, we haven't got a cage to protect us. And there's always horses behind you that horses in general try to avoid you. But because you race that tight and that close together, then sometimes they can't and you get trampled on. That's why we see obviously roll into a tiny ball and try to make yourself as small an object as possible so you don't get kicked. But that must be terrifying when you're actually rolled up in that book because you know that you could have this. Yeah, I was Linfield when”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Tell me about your first record. My first record, Ronan Keating, Life is a roller coaster because I think it represents my life. It's a song that really catches you thrown in Keating and life is a roller coaster, what's the fastest horse you've ever ridden, Frankie? The best horse I've ever ridden was a horse called Dubai Millennium. What does best mean? Best he was the fastest, the best field in a go from a horse. It was his own person. And if he decided to go one way, then there was no way you could change his because that's the secret, isn't it? I mean, when you're up top, the horse has got to know who's in charge. That's right. But it's a fine dividing line, huh? That's right. Well, you know, you don't want to break their spirit. On the other end, you don't want to...”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, actually I was there in first place and I can tell you what they were trying like hell to beat me. They were so sick of seeing me winning every race But at the end of the day, nobody spoke to me. Indescribable feeling, though, crossing that line. He was. He was. I mean, I'll be honest, I was exhausted because... The mental pressure of the day like that. But at the time I won the seventh, I didn't even remember the first three. So it was really weird. And it's a very happy story because tell me what happened to gangly old Fujiyama crest. He's in the field eating grass as we speak. The lad used to look after him. He spotted him in a Welsh. What is not very glamorous that they probably end up. In the knacker's yard. Absolutely. And so I rang the train and brought him back. And he's a house bet really now. Give him a good life.”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And never in a million years that I thought I was going to be in the seventh race. And I was actually sort of lax about it and I was joking about it because the horse was slashed from a 12th to one shot in the morning to favorite. This was Fujiama Quest and not a pre-possessing horse. No, I mean he was horse and he was out of form that year. Even myself, I could not see the horse win. And I remember the public were cheering me on, and I was saying to myself, you know, I'm not going to let this race spoil it. I've already equaled the record, and that for me is good enough, is great. This source really, he cannot win. I don't know, maybe. Something happened and we won. There was a rumour, of course, wasn't there, that the other jockeys might have let it happen just because they wanted to see the seven go in a row and you to make the record.”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“chilled out and relaxed. You were not chilled out or relaxed on that afternoon in September 1996 at Ascot when you rode all seven winners. Frankie's magnificent seven. Did you know that afternoon that there might be a chance? Had you got any inkling at all? Absolutely no idea. I mean he was a very big racing day that Queen Elizabeth Stakes was the big race and biscuit I was focusing on trying to win that race and I knew I had another couple of chances on the card but obviously a lot of punters thought you could because I mean the book is lost something like 15 million that afternoon because I mean the answer was something like 25,000 to one or something absolutely was madness”
2006-01-15 · Desert Island Discs · Frankie Dettori · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source