Frankie Dettori excited to ride Enable and Too Darn Hot next month
The top jockey will partner the top-class pair in the Arc and the Dewhurst in the coming weeks
FRANKIE DETTORI can't wait to get the leg up on two top-class performers in the coming weeks.
The Italian is set to partner the brilliant Enable in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe and the exciting Too Darn Hot next month.
John Gosden's Enable made a stunning return to action when winning a Group 3 at Kempton earlier this month.
She thrashed the high-class Crystal Ocean that day and is a short-priced favourite to defend her Arc crown at Longchamp on Sunday week.
Dettori has won the great race five times already and is confident of landing a sixth success.
Dettori said: "Before her comeback at Kempton, I rode most of her work for the last month.
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"Despite doing some work and her weight being more or less her racing weight, until you try a mile and a half, you can never be sure.
"Taking on a competitive horse like Crystal Ocean, who is race-fit, was always going to test her a little bit.
"Yet she showed me that she hasn't lost her enthusiasm for racing. I was really impressed by her comeback.
"I wasn't the only one who was so happy to see her, though. The racing public have been cheated of her brilliance this year and hopefully we can try to do it again in the Arc.
"I am feeling good about it. As I said, her comeback race was good. She is trying a new track, but she seems very versatile."
The 47-year-old added: "Looking at the trials, the Irish Champion Stakes and so forth, the one I fear the most is William Haggas' filly Sea Of Class.
"She's a Classic winner and was very impressive at York. She will be very dangerous.
"Even though I have won the race five times, I would love to win it again. I regard it as one of the best races in the world."
Enable's stablemate Too Darn Hot preserved his unbeaten record with a runaway victory in the Champagne Stakes at Doncaster.
He heads the betting for the prestigious Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket on 13 October.
Dettori said of the colt: "Riding him at Doncaster on the flat track, I was able to feel that he was a pretty special two-year-old.
"What he did between the three furlong and one furlong point, bridging that gap so quickly and passing them out, was very exciting. You can only be visually impressed.
"The Dewhurst is the next step and will give us another pointer as to where we are at."