Frankie Dettori’s French agent, Herve Naggar, told guardian.co.uk that some progress was being made in the examination of his case by French Galop and he hopes to be back in action by the end of this week, keeping alive the possibility that he may have a ride in the Epsom Classics on Friday and Saturday.
Naggar went with Dettori and the jockey’s solicitor to a meeting with France Galop officials on Tuesday. Afterwards, he reported: “The medical committee accepted the explanation of the mishap with his earlier test and it is hoped that by the end of the week Frankie Dettori will be allowed to ride in France.” The continuing delay, nine days after the end of his six-month ban for a positive cocaine test at Longchamp, is a source of immense frustration to Dettori’s team.
The jockey’s agent Ray Cochrane said, “I’ve been talking to Frankie and he’s fed-up about it. We’ve got five rides [for Epsom on Friday] but people won’t put up with being messed about like this all the time. We can still organise it but I was hoping to get it done today. Instead, we’ve just got more messing about, keeping people holding on.”
