No More Heroes Anymore

When a Hero falls, faith in the Human Race takes a dive. People who you think have everything in life that represents happiness and contentment then turns out to be the opposite. If people like them with every thing going for them can't be content then what chance have the rest of us. What is in the human psyche that makes it impossible for us to be content? Why do we always want more? How much is enough?

Is it this embedded gene in the human thought process that drove original man from the cave to today's advanced society? Are we finished evolving? What exactly do we want?

All this thought was brought about by the revelation of Frankie Dettori's drug debacle. I knew something was wrong when he was sacked after 18 years with Godolphin  and trainer, Saeed Bin Surror. Frankie was and is always the life and soul of the party on and off the race course. All the money he wants or needs, a beautiful wife and family and the respect of every punter of the Flat. As a result of his positive test result he will be the subject of a hearing conducted by France Galop, France's racing govern body in Paris. 

This is not the first time the celebrated horseman, who in 1996 made racing history when riding all seven winners at Ascot, has hit the headlines for the wrong reasons.In 1993 he was stopped by police on London's Oxford Street with a small quantity of cocaine in his car.He escaped with a caution but the incident cost him a lucrative two-year contract to ride in Hong Kong.

He has won all five English classics, including the Epsom Derby on Authorized in 2007, and the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, Europe's most prestigious race, three times on Lammtarra in 1995, Sakhee in 2001 and Marienbard the following year.

Dettori is not the first British-based jockey to fall foul of French racing's doping rules.

In 2006 six-time British champion Kieren Fallon was banned for six months after testing positive for a metabolite of a prohibited substance.

The following season he failed a control for cocaine at Deauville racecourse and was suspended for 18 months.