Frankie forges eight clear
Defending champion Kieren Fallon was also in fine form at the Dunstall Park track, landing a double, but the gap between the pair has stretched to eight, with Dettori leading 174 to 166.
Fallon drew first blood when he just got Watchmyeyes home to win division one of the opening Holiday Inn Garden Court Maiden Auction Stakes after the juvenile hung across the track.
Dettori took division two half an hour later aboard Cloonavery, and then won following Come Floodlit Racing This Saturday ‘Premier’ Claiming Stakes with Forzeen, both trained by Jamie Osborne.
The Italian was also on the mark with Nautical for Tony Carroll in the Sponsor A Race Handicap.
The gap had grown to nine, but Fallon went home a little happier after Blythe Spirit won the closing Come Racing Saturday Night At Dunstall Park Handicap.
Remarking on the fact that he had pulled further clear, Dettori said: “It’s swings and roundabouts.
“I’ve got a day off tomorrow, so you just have to take it a day at a time. I’ve got great respect for Kieren, he’s a fantastic jockey, and we are both doing our best.”
Meanwhile, Jamie Moore was back in the winner’s enclosure at Ludlow yesterday on his return to racing following his horrific fall in late July.
Last season’s champion conditional jockey, 19, fractured three vertebrae in his back when novice chaser Isard came to grief at Newton Abbot.
But, as Martin Pipe’s travelling head lad Bob Hodge said after the win on Rosemauve (15-8) in the bet365.com Shropshire Cup handicap hurdle: “You would hardly have known it from the way he rode.”
