Barbara D. Livingston
Jockey Frankie Dettori, shown in a November 2023 photo, won six consecutive races, including two stakes, sweeping the second through seventh, at Santa Anita on Saturday.
The winning streak began rather anonymously during the lunch hour at Santa Anita on Saturday with a win aboard the well-regarded colt Ball Don’t Like in a maiden race for sprinters.
By mid-afternoon, the world-famous jockey Frankie Dettori had won six consecutive races, including two stakes, sweeping the second through seventh races.
Dettori was on the verge of equaling, and perhaps surpassing, the track’s all-time record of seven wins in a day set by Laffit Pincay Jr. in March 1987.
It was not to be.