Champion jockey Frankie Dettori has filmed a moving tribute to the NHS - with thoroughbred racehorses Enable Stradivarius also sporting brand new sheets with hearts to support the health service.
The 49-year-old rider filmed the tribute for the Jockey Club at Newmarket Racecourse, in which he says: “Thank you to the NHS for all you are doing.”
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Pictured with racehorses Enable and Stradivarius proudly showing off their new rainbow sheets, Dettori particularly thanks West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds and Addenbrooke’s Hospital in nearby Cambridge.
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He urges staff to “keep up the good work and take care”, thanking them for their “valiant and hard work in the face of a sinister disease”.
Dettori also said that Enbale is “proud of her new sheet”.
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The champion jockey has ridden more than 500 Group race winners, and famously rode seven winners in the same day at Ascot, in 1996, on British Champions’ Day.
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