Dettori shines on Shamardal in French Derby

SHAMARDAL stepped up in distance as the Prix du Jockey Club came in the opposite direction with perfect results at Chantilly yesterday.

Frankie Dettori executed a copybook ride aboard the winner of the race best known as the French Derby, which was being run for the first time in its 169-year history over a new trip of one mile two and a half furlongs.

Having scraped home under another fine front-running ride in the French 2000 Guineas three weeks earlier, it was surprising to see Dettori being allowed to execute the same tactics.