12 October 2020

Enable – A glorious career in pictures

By NewsChain Sport
12 October 2020

Five seasons, 19 races, 15 wins, 11 Group Ones and over £10million in prize-money – Enable certainly has no questions left to answer as she heads for her new life in the paddocks. We look back on her astonishing career in 10 memorable images of racing’s golden girl:

Enable powered through a thunderstorm to claim the Oaks at Epsom back in 2017, beginning her reign as queen of the middle-distance division (PA Archive)
Dettori salutes the crowd as Enable lifts a first King George at Ascot (PA Archive)
Enable was in a different county winning the 2017 Yorkshire Oaks - a prelude to a demolition job in her first Arc (PA Archive)
Enable and Crystal Ocean produced a race for the ages in last year's King George (PA Archive)
We all thought last year's Yorkshire Oaks was her swansong, but Arc defeat ensured we had another 12 months to relish the great Enable (PA Archive)
It was not to be for Enable on her Eclipse return at Sandown in July, but this image is a beauty (PA Wire)
Enable raised the bar with an unprecedented third King George in July - and Dettori could not hide his emotions (PA Wire)
Dettori has made no secret of the special place Enable will always hold in his heart (PA Wire)
A final flying dismount from Dettori at Kempton in September, yet Arc heartbreak lay ahead (PA Wire)
And then she was gone - Enable will certainly not be forgotten though. Happy retirement old girl (PA Wire)

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