“I struggled from the beginning of the race. But then I realised that it did happen and I felt numb really, it’s just very hard to explain. “I know it’s quite dark anyway, but the euphoria, feeling this can’t be right, this is not real life, this is perhaps some dream.
“I had the same, surreal moment when I won my first Group One with Markofdistinction, everything went dark,” Dettori said. King Of Steel’s win may or may not prove to be Dettori’s final Group One victory in Britain, 33 years after he broke his duck at the highest level on Markofdistinction in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes.īut it was definitely the first Group One success both for King Of Steel, the runner-up in the Derby in June, and his owner, Kia Joorabchian, one of the football world’s most high-profile agents. I wanted to finish at the top and you can’t get any more top than this, so I’m very proud.” I’m fairly new over there, but from the beginning of the season, it’s been tremendous. I can’t take that to America unfortunately. “That was special, ‘Oh, Frankie Dettori’, that’s one thing I’ll miss.
