Frankie Dettori to ride Sir Michael Stoute’s Veracious in the Qipco 1000 Guineas at Newmarket next month
Dettori will ride Sir Michael Stoute's filly in the Classic for which she is a 10-1 shot following the news that ante-post favourite Clemmie is unlikely to make the Newmarket contest next month
TOP jockey Frankie Dettori has picked up the ride on Veracious in the Qipco 1000 Guineas next month.
Dettori rode the Sir Michael Stoute-trained filly in a racecourse gallop at Newmarket on Wednesday.
Stoute said: "Frankie was very happy with her. She's a nice filly. She won her maiden here well, and I think she has developed very pleasingly and is coming to herself now, really coming.
"We'll run her (in the Guineas) and Frankie will ride her. I did have her in the Nell Gwyn, but I thought that (racecourse gallop) would be more beneficial."
Dettori was suitably impressed.
He said: "It was the first time I'd ridden her and she's fit and well.
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"She handled the dip very well. Sometimes a horse coming here for the first time they can get lost, but she is well coordinated. Fingers crossed."