A’ALI’S comfortable victory in the Group 2 Prix Robert Papin at Deauville last Sunday contributed to the stupendous recent French record of his jockey, Frankie Dettori.

The Italian failed to ride a winner on his drop-in visit to Killarney but, less than 24 hours on from his heroics in the Irish Oaks, the Papin triumph meant that in the last three Sundays Dettori has won on six of his eight French mounts, in the process landing two Group 1 races, two Group 2s and two listed races.