Epsom Derby 2015: Frankie Dettori wins Derby for second time after steering favourite Golden Horn to victory
Was he happy? Was he hell. Right-fist clenched approaching the finish line, a look of astonishment after it as the realisation of what he had achieved hit him hard, Frankie Dettori was in the mood to embrace everyone and everything in his path as he returned Golden Horn to Epsom’s tiny winner’s enclosure, a second Derby victory secure. First to get a smacker was the winning trainer John Gosden, the man to whom the Italian was stable jockey in the 1990s, and who he regards as a “father figure and a friend”; then owner Anthony Oppenheimer, a member of the De Beers diamond family; the 44-year-old even puckered up to a television camera lens.