It is my last one and it is even sweeter winning it. He added: “The crowd gave me an amazing cheer and my son is here and my wife is watching at home. I don’t know if I want to cry, laugh or enjoy it. It has been tremendous after what happened at Newbury and I thought, ‘At least stay on this time’. “It is difficult to win Classic races and to cap my last season with victory in one is beyond my wildest dreams. It is my last 2,000 Guineas, and to win it in front of my home crowd is amazing. But I saw plenty of daylight and then I thought, ‘I can’t believe this is happening’. “I was in a fight with Oisin and once I got rid of him I thought something was going to come. Now it is sinking in and the tears are coming. “I’m not dreaming, am I?,” asked Dettori. Only a victory for Dettori on Saga, beaten a head earlier on Coronation day in the royal silks, could have made it any better for the effervescent jockey who Balding described as an “omnipresent superstar” in racing throughout his adult life. Unlike in the Greenham Stakes a fortnight ago, this time the race could not have gone more to plan for the Chaldean camp and there was not the semblance of a mistake.
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