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Magnificent Seven is the nickname taken from the headline of the Sporting Times for the seven horse race wins achieved by the British-Italian jockey Frankie Dettori, taking place at Ascot Racecourse on a single day of 28 September 1996.

known in the race program title as The Festival at Ascot, a group of races that came to become the British Champions Day.

Pre-race

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Prior to the Ascot meetings, only two jockeys have managed a 100% record on a six-race card in the United Kingdom; Gordon Richards at Chepstow Racecourse, Chepstow in Monmouthshire, Wales on 4th October 1933 and Alec Russell at Bogside Racecourse on 19th July 1957. Richard’s achievement was part of a twelve-race winning sequence in three consecutive days; the last race at Nottingham Racecourse, the entire races at Chepstow and then the first five races at Chepstow the next day[1] before being beaten in a close finish in the final race of the meeting.[2] Only American jockey Chris Antley bettered that total number on 31st October 1987 with nine wins in a day; Four of those at Aqueduct Racetrack, South Ozone Park, Queens, New York City with another five at Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford, New Jersey later in the evening.[1]

The Horses

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Raceday

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Effects on bookmakers

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The combined odds for winning all seven-card races was at 25,000-1,[3] as a result this believed to have cost gambling industries a tune of over £30 million in payouts.[4]

The worst hit was the bookmaker, Gary Wiltshire, who believed to have lost £1 million.[5] Dettori's horse for the Rosemary Dated Stakes, the fifth race, Fatefully was prior in the morning quoted at the odds of 9/2 but had it reduced to 5/2 when large bookmakers went into damage limitation mode and later lowed the odds to 13/8.


the Ascot betting ring, the big firms were now trying to limit the damage from Dettori having ridden the first four winners. Fatefully opened at and was well backed down


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As a result of this, he was forced to sell his house and cars and made a living selling Christmas paper in Oxford Street. Soon after, he made his money betting at six race meetings and six greyhound races tracks each week.[7]

One compulsive gambler from Morecambe in Lancashire; a joinery business owner who faced financial troubles, had been forced to quit his gambling habit by his wife but secretly made a bet of £67.58 backing Dettori. Despite fearing redundancy for his six employees, he earned £550,000 from his bets, doubling his business and moved into a new house.[7]


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Post race

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On 15 October 2012, Irish jockey Richard Hughes tied with Dettori with the same number of wins but failed to achieve the same number of consecutive wins as he came third in his sixth race of the eight he partipicated in.[10][11][12]

For his achievement, Dettori was nominated for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award in which he came third behind Steve Redgrave and Damon Hill,[13][14] the best for a jockey.[15]

The races have been ranked at 27 in Channel 4's 100 Greatest Sporting Moments[16] broadcasted on January 2002.

Fujiyama Crest, the horse that helped Dettori to achieve his seventh and last win of the day, had a later career in hurdling until 2000, when Dettori took the opportunity to buy him and lived the rest of his life as Dettori's family pet. Fujiyama Crest passed away at the age of 23[17] in 2015.[18]

Results

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# Time (BST) Race name Horse Trainer Owner Grade Distance Age/Sex Source
1 14:00 Cumberland Lodge Stakes Wall Street Saeed bin Suroor Godolphin 1m 4f 3 [19]
2 14:35 Diadem Stakes Diffident Saeed bin Suroor Godolphin 6f 3 [20]
3 15:20 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes Mark of Esteem Saeed bin Suroor Godolphin 1m 3 [21]
4 15:55 Tote Festival Handicap Decorated Hero John Gosden Herbert Allen 7f 3 [22]
5 16:30 Rosemary Stakes Fatefully Saeed bin Suroor Godolphin 1m 3 [23]
6 17:00 Blue Seal Stakes Lochangel Ian Balding Jeff Smith 6f 2 [24]
7 17:35 Gordon Carter Stakes Fujiyama Crest Michael Stoute Seisuke Hata 2m 45y 3 [25]

[26][27] http://www.sportinglife.com/racing/racecards/28-09-1996/ascot/racecard/132214/gordon-carter-stakes-handicap http://www.sportinglife.com/racing/racecards/03-10-2014/ascot/racecard/643303/ascot-camra-beer-festival-gordon-carter-handicap


Lochangel


Footnotes

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Museum Treasure". National Horseracing Museum. 1996-09-28. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  2. ^ Lucas, Pat. 1976. Fifty Years of Racing at Chepstow. SBN 901906 14 X
  3. ^ Keogh, Frank (2015-06-06). "Epsom Derby: How Frankie Dettori came back from exile - BBC Sport". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  4. ^ Jo Carter (2010-09-23). "Rewind to Frankie Dettori's Magnificent Seven | Horse Racing Rewind to | ESPN.co.uk". En.espn.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  5. ^  By Jonathan Kay 2:26PM 17 DEC 2013  (2013-12-17). "Wiltshire has put away the chalk at last | Greyhound News". Racing Post. Retrieved 2015-11-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ "Seven is not this bookmaker's lucky number « Sports Journalists' Association". Sportsjournalists.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  7. ^ a b c "Racing: The day Dettori's Magnificent Seven left the bookies in tears | More Sports | Sport". The Independent. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  8. ^ "Racing: Ruin to riches for Wiltshire". Retrieved 2016-09-19.
  9. ^ "Winning It Back by Gary Wiltshire". eclipsemagazine.uk. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
  10. ^ "Richard Hughes wins seven races at Windsor". BBC Sport. 15 October 2012. Retrieved 13 November 2012.
  11. ^ "Bookies' misery as jockey wins magnificent seven". Irish Independent. 16 October 2012. Retrieved 13 November 2012.
  12. ^ "Richard Hughes claims seven victories at Windsor". RTÉ Sport. 16 October 2012. Retrieved 13 November 2012.
  13. ^ "Bramwell Speaks Out: Auntie's social club mars personality prize". Lancashire Evening Telegraph. 12 December 1996. Archived from the original on 9 February 2010. Retrieved 27 May 2014.
  14. ^ Hayes, Alex (11 July 1999). "Motor Racing: Damon Hill – Laps And Lapses Of A Boy Racer". The Independent. Retrieved 7 June 2009.
  15. ^ "BBC Sport - Sports Personality of the Year - Sports Personality facts and figures". BBC News. 2008-10-09. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  16. ^ "C4 - 100 Greatest Sporting Moments". Channel 4. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  17. ^ "Fujiyama Crest Passes Away at 23 | TDN [Thoroughbred Daily News]". Thoroughbreddailynews.com. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  18. ^ Banerjee, Rohan. "Frankie Dettori pays emotional farewell to Fujiyama Crest, the legendary racehorse he bought as a pet after famous Ascot victory | Daily Mail Online". Daily Mail. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  19. ^ "Racecard 14:00 Ascot | Sep 28 1996 | Cumberland Lodge Stakes". Sporting Life. 1996-09-28. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  20. ^ "Racecard 14:35 Ascot | Sep 28 1996 | Racal Diadem Stakes". Sporting Life. 1996-09-28. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  21. ^ "Racecard 15:20 Ascot | Sep 28 1996 | Queen Elizabeth II Stakes". Sporting Life. 1996-09-28. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  22. ^ "Racecard 15:55 Ascot | Sep 28 1996 | Tote Festival Handicap". Sporting Life. 1996-09-28. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  23. ^ "Racecard 16:30 Ascot | Sep 28 1996 | Rosemary Rated Stakes (Handicap) (fillies)". Sporting Life. 1996-09-28. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  24. ^ "Racecard 17:00 Ascot | Sep 28 1996 | Blue Seal Conditions Stakes (fillies)". Sporting Life. 1996-09-28. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  25. ^ "Racecard 17:35 Ascot | Sep 28 1996 | Gordon Carter Stakes (Handicap)". Sporting Life. 1996-09-28. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  26. ^ "How I lost €1.6m in 10 minutes | The Sunday Times". www.thesundaytimes.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
  27. ^ "Tattenham Corner". The Guardian. 2011-02-26. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2016-09-19.

Works cited

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Magnificent Seven: How Frankie Dettori Achieved the Impossible

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