Frankie Dettori turned up the heat in the jockeys' championship chase with a 579 to 1 five-timer yesterday.

Dettori past the century mark for the turf campaign, which governs the title race, with victories on Dr Martens, Mijana and Gold Lance at Windsor and headed off to Leicester's evening meeting where he scored on the Luca Cumani-trained Coretta and Petite Danseuse for Chris Dwyer.

The nap hand takes his score to 103, eight behind the currently suspended leader Kieren Fallon. Fallon is 4 to 6 with the Tote to become champion jockey for the first time with Dettori next best at 13 to 8 and Pat Eddery on 7 to 1.

The irrepressible Italian, who is one of three jockeys in line to partner Benny The Dip in next week's Juddmonte International Stakes at York, clinched his third win with a virtuoso performance on Roland O'Sullivan's notoriously hard ride Gold Lance, who came through late to land the Royal Bank Of Scotland handicap by a length from Queen's Insignia.

Eddery, who went to Leicester needing two winners to register a century, had little luck with some fancied mounts.

Martin Pipe linked up with Tony McCoy to claim three of Worcester's six races with Couchant, Robert's Toy and Running de Cerisy at accumulative odds of around 5 to 1.

Bosra Sham's Classic-wining brother Hector Protector will stand at the National Stud in Britain next year, it was announced yesterday. The nine-year-old has been leased from Teruya Yoshida's Shadai stallion station in Japan for 1998 in a deal handled with the British Bloodstock Agency.

Hector Protector was officially rated Europe's top two-year-old in 1990 and went on to win the French 2000 Guineas and Prix Jacques le Marois the following year vefore his sale to Japan.