BRITISH RACING: Ricahrd Hills will step in for chicken-pox victim Frankie Dettori on Sakhee in the Prix Gontaut-Biron at Deauville on Saturday.

Hills, retained jockey to Sakhee's breeder Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum, teams up with the five-year-old for the first time on the track in two years after the horse was supplemented yesterday for the Group Three contest over a mile and a quarter.

Sakhee ran in Sheikh Hamdan's colours for the first two years of his career with Hills finishing second on him behind Sinndar in the Vodafone Derby.

Since running under the Godolphin banner, Dettori has been the regular pilot but he was forced to pull out yesterday after the illness he caught from his children took a turn for the worse.

"I talked to him this morning and unfortunately he is not going to be able to make it on Saturday," Godolphin racing manager Simon Crisford said yesterday.

"I think the situation deteriorated overnight so unfortunately we are minus Frankie, but Sakhee is in great form and Richard Hills will ride him.

"The horse is sitting right on top of a race and he has to run to retain his mental focus and physical fitness if we are going to be successful with the big plan which is to win the Irish Champion Stakes and to take on High Chaparral."

Sakhee has not raced since finishing a disappointing third to his stablemate Street Cry in the Dubai World Cup in March. He missed the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes at Ascot last month because of unsuitable ground, but he looks like having his favoured soft going in France and he has been the subject of pleasing reports.

A total of 11 remain in the race including two other British challengers, the Barry Hills-trained Chancellor and Richard Hannon's Potemkin.