FRANKIE Dettori and James Doyle were out of luck in Bahrain last Friday, with Adrie de Vries instead taking the honours with a big-race treble on one of the best day’s racing in the Kingdom.

The Dutchman won the feature race, the His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa Cup, on Port Lions, finishing two lengths ahead of Doyle’s mount Rustang, trained by Allan Smith. Dettori was back in sixth on last year’s winner and the runner-up’s stablemate, Thorkhill Star.