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G1 Investec Derby favourite English King (Fr) (Camelot {GB}) and new rider Frankie Dettori had an opportunity to get acquainted with one another on the Lambourn gallops on Wednesday, with the Italian partnering the Ed Walker-trained Listed Derby Trial S. winner in a piece of work.

“Today is 10 days out from the Derby, which is always when I would do my last proper piece of work with a horse, and he worked very well,” Walker said. “Frankie came in and had a sit on him, and everything went smoothly. He came out of it good and seems in good shape.

“I wasn’t really nervous about this piece of work, because he’s not a horse that you need or expect to see blasting clear of his lead horse in Frankel-Bullet Train style. I was lucky enough to see that horse work a number of times and I always feared that if that’s what it took to have a Group 1 horse, I probably never would have one. This guy only does what he has to do, and the thing I was most nervous about, with Frankie coming down, was he might not impress Frankie, but he loved the horse. Frankie rode him from his stable and back to his stable–he really wanted to get inside the horse’s head and understand him, which is a mark of Frankie’s professionalism. He rode him for well over an hour, and they got on great.

“His feedback was kind of as I expected–he loves the way he moves, he’s an exceptionally athletic horse and he loved his personality. He’s a playful horse who switches off and conserves energy. He is very straightforward, but has that Montjeu twinkle in his eye. He’ll have another piece of work early next week, all being well. Then it’s just a case of freshening him up and getting him feeling as well as he possibly can for the big day.”

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Frankie Dettori, who on Monday picked up the mount on favourite English King (Fr) (Camelot {GB}) in the July 4 G1 Investec Derby, told Sky Sports Racing on Tuesday that he will get acquainted with Bjorn Nielsen’s Listed Derby Trial S. winner this week.

“I’m going to go and ride him this week,” Dettori said. “I can only go on what I’ve seen, but he was impressive at Newcastle last year, and very impressive at Lingfield.

“He’s interesting. On the plus side, he went round Lingfield like it was a flat track. You would think Epsom is quite similar, so that is a big tick in the box. I’ve had some good success for Bjorn Nielsen with Stradivarius. He approached me when he realised John [Gosden] didn’t have anything for the Derby. He had a quiet word in my ear to see if I would accept the ride, and I said I was all over it. He looks a good horse from what I’ve seen, so it would be my pleasure.

Dettori replaces Tom Marquand aboard the Ed Walker-trained 3-year-old, with the 22-year-old Marquand having ridden him in his maiden-breaking win in November and at Lingfield.

“It [losing big rides] happened a lot to me when I was young,” Dettori reflected. “Tom is 22–I’m sure he’ll have plenty of other chances in his career, but I was just delighted to get the ride.”

Dettori said he thinks the G1 2000 Guineas winner Kameko (Kitten’s Joy) is his biggest threat in the blue riband.

“Classic form is always the strongest, and Kameko hit the line strong,” he said. “He’s the one who brings class to the party, and the one I fear the most.”

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