Legendary jockey is happy that it includes the bad parts amid the good
Ask a racing fan to name his or her favourite horse movie and they would probably nominate the 2003 production,The latest horse racing movie — just released on the UK circuit — iswhich portrays the life of jockey Frankie Dettori, who is as famous in his sport as Cristiano Ronaldo is in football and Rafael Nadal in tennis.
When Dettori says it has been a “rollercoaster ride” he is right on the button — a plane crash that nearly killed him, his “Magnificent Seven” winners at Ascot, his up-and-down time with Godolphin, a cocaine ban by French authorities and the revival of his career and successful partnership with star mare Enable.
“I didn’t want the film to include just the good bits of my life. It had to have the bad bits as well. If they had asked me as a 30-year-old I maybe wouldn’t have been brave enough to do a film like this, or I might have tried to hide away from the bad things. A part of the film deals with his rocky relationship with his father, Gianfranco Dettori, who was a successful jockey too, in Italy. “We were fighting all the time and just didn’t see eye to eye. I had my points of view and he had his points of view. I’m sure a lot of people who watch the film will be able to relate to that sort of thing in their own lives.”
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