Frankie Dettori and Kieren Fallon made a victorious return to the British racing scene at Windsor yesterday when, fresh from their respective triumphs in Dubai, they each scored on their first rides of the new turf Flat season.

Dettori had an armchair ride on Verbose in the Bourne End Fillies' Maiden, but only after the John Gosden-trained three-year-old had played up at the start and all but refused to enter the stalls.

While Fallon was at his strongest to bring Ian Balding's Sign Of Hope from well off the pace to justify favouritism, at 11 to 2.