Clued-up Cracksman team hope to share another Precious moment

Racegoers have one of the last chances this year to see Frankie Dettori riding in the Cracksman colours when he partners the John Gosden-trained Precious Ramotswe in her first appearance in almost a year.

Six days on from Cracksman's stunning victory in the Champion Stakes, Dettori takes the reins in the 1m2f handicap (2.50) at Newbury on Anthony Oppenheimer's filly, who has been absent since making a winning debut at Kempton 311 days ago.

She is named after the main character from the Alexander McCall Smith series of novels about the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.

"She's out of Miss Pinkerton," explained Oppenheimer. "Pinkertons is a detective agency and we were looking round for detectives all over the world. Most of them had gone, then we alighted on Precious Ramotswe.

"She had a very slight stress fracture that kept her off racing. I understand she's now fully well. Obviously she can have only a couple of runs this year and then we'll keep her for next year."

Dettori's vintage wardrobe

It had been a decade since the maroon and white silks so synonymous with Sheikh Mohammed's stars of old had been visible on British tracks, and Dettori wore them regularly before he became Godolphin stable jockey.

On Friday he will pull them on for the first time in many years when he partners the unbeaten Royal Line, who bids to continue a perfect start to her career for Sheikha Al Jalila, the daughter of Sheikh Mohammed and Princess Haya.

A son of Dubawi out of a half-sister to Galileo and Sea The Stars, Royal Line followed up a debut win at Windsor by landing a handicap at Haydock and faces just two opponents for the £19,000 conditions race (3.25).

Military call-up

Gosden has the pick of the pedigrees among the two-year-olds on show, not only with First Eleven, the Frankel half-brother to Kingman, who has his third start in the second division of the mile novice race (2.15), but also Qatar Racing's Military Law in division one (1.10).

David Redvers, racing adviser to Qatar Racing, said: "Mr Gosden likes the horse and says he's a next-year horse. He had the first run to wake him up a bit and give him very valuable racecourse experience. I guess this will be another step to a very valuable three-year-old career.

"He's a very attractive individual and, as a typical Dubawi, is going to benefit from a little bit of time and maturity, mentally and physically."

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