Enable gallops into Arc pantheon – and Dettori just the man to take her there

After Sunday's Arc came the Prix de l'Opera, but there was no need for the fat lady even to clear her throat – she was redundant. The lady with the big ears had already sung and hit all the high notes with consummate ease.

Being a jumps man to the inner core, it is rare for a Flat race to get the emotions fizzing – winter for the heart, summer for the head – but this triumph leapt across that divide, and joyously so.

Enable’s triumph under a master steer from Frankie Dettori, still irrepressible at the age of 46, tapped straight into the soul. Frankie had the race won in the first 200 yards. His draw in stall two meant that if he got trapped on the rail the next mile and a half could have been all about him trying desperately to push up the coffin lid as the rest of the field, including five Ballydoyle bruisers, hammered nails into it.