FRANKIE DETTORI has officially lost the £2.7million ride on a horse who made him go ‘wow’.
The world’s most famous jockey has been replaced by Kieran Shoemark on Emily Upjohn for Saturday’s mega-money Dubai Sheema Classic.
Dettori was unlucky not to win the Oaks on the John and Thady Gosden-trained mare in 2022 but then rode her to consecutive Grade 1 successes in the British Champion Fillies & Mares Stakes and Coronation Cup.
It was after the latter that Dettori replied ‘wow’ when asked about her performance at Epsom.
Yet, despite that success, it is Shoemark who will be aboard in her biggest race yet on Saturday afternoon.
The Gosdens have sent the Andrew Lloyd Webber-owned five-year-old to the 1m4f contest in the Middle East.
Emily Upjohn will go head to …