Dettori has written a memoir, Leap of Faith, a reference to his flying dismount. I ask Catherine if she has read it. She gives me a look. “Erm, no. Is it good?” Why would she read it, she asks. “I know the story. Anything I don’t know, he’s telling lies or has forgotten.” So, Frankie in a nutshell, she says – easily bored, impatient, crotchety. It’s obvious that she adores him. “On his gravestone, they’re going to put: ‘I’m not waiting.’ This all started when we went skiing. We’d get to the top of the slopes and the kids were snowboarding and he’d say: ‘I’m not waiting.’ He gets so bored.” Dettori bursts out laughing but I am not sure if it’s genuine mirth or a deflection of his real feelings. In all the sentimentality of his Ascot farewell could his dad finally congratulate him? “No chance,” Dettori says. “Dad is set in his ways. For years he hurt me but, now that I know his character, it doesn’t affect me in the slightest. Last night on the show newcomer Frankie put the question on everyone's lips to pop princess Britney Spears' sister Jamie Lynn. He asked her: “Is it true you don’t get on with her now?” To which she awkwardly replied: “I love my sister.”

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