Frankel (foaled February 11, 2008) is a British Horse Racing racehorse. Frankel has never been unbeaten in his career at fourteen races and is the world's highest racehorse since May 2011. In 2010 he defeated a field including Nathaniel and Color Vision on his debut before winning the Royal Lodge Stakes with ten lengths and Dewhurst Stakes. where he defeated the winner of Middle Park Stakes, Dream Ahead. As a three-year-old boy, he won the Classical 2000 Guineas by six long, defeating the fabulous Canford Cliffs old in the much anticipated Sussex Stakes at Goodwood and winning the Queen Elizabeth II bet at Ascot. Frankel extended his unbeaten run in 2012 by winning Lockinge Stakes, Queen Anne Stakes and Sussex Stakes for the second time. In August he was transferred to the mile and quarter for the first time and won the International Stakes in York. In October he won the Stakes Champion at Ascot, again over a mile and a quarter, after which his retirement from racing was announced.
After his victory at Queen Elizabeth II's Ownership in Ascot in October 2011, Frankel was ranked 143 by Timeform, the highest mark awarded by the organization in over forty years and the fourth all-time high behind Sea Bird, Brigadier Gerard and Tudor Minstrel. In June 2012, after his victory at Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot, Timeform raised its temporary rating to 147, making it the highest rated horse in the organization's history. In January 2013 Timeform announced that his final ranking at the end of his racing career was also 147.
The World Thoroughbred Racehorse Rankings Committee ranked Frankel as the best raceman they value since their rating was introduced in 1977, by two points difference. In January 2013 they announced that their ratings have been re-calibrated, since it is believed that in the early years horse schemes have been treated more generously than recently. Frankel's ranking was confirmed at 140, but Dancing Brave was reduced from 141 to 138, predicted from 140 to 134 and Shergar from 140 to 136.
Since 1900, the British-ridden horse only Ribot has won more races and ended his unbeaten career (racing mostly in Italy). Frankel's record of nine consecutive Group 1 wins is unmatched and is only matched by Zenyatta's filly from the US.
Frankel's performance in 2000 Guineas has been described as "one of the greatest performances in the British racetrack". British bloodstock institution McKeever Bloodstock and Banstead Manor Stud Manager Philip Mitchell have suggested that Frankel has an assessment of Ã, Â £ 100 million, a possible estimate "conservative".
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Frankel is a horse bay with a big white star, a white snip just above his nose, and four white legs. He was raised by Juddmonte Farms and trained by Henry Cecil, and owned by Khalid Abdullah. He was named after the famous and late American coach Bobby Frankel.
Frankel is with the sire champion Galileo, from the Listed Sprint-winner Kind who is the daughter of the Sire champion Danehill. Although Galileo won the Derby, doubts arose about whether Frankel's staying power would be enough for the Classic mile-and-a-half. Frankel is instead targeted for a three-year campaign over a mile, his first major target being the Classic 2000 Guineas.
Frankel Dam, Kind, is the half-brother of the winner of Arlington Million Powerscourt. Retired to the field in 2006, he has so far successfully frozen three horses to win the Group race: Frankel who has three sections of Bullet Train brothers - often his co-workers and pacemaker - has won the Group 3 Lingfield Derby Trial, while his brother Frankel, Noble Mission, after winning the Registered Newmarket Bet and second place in Group 2 King Edward VII Stakes at Royal Ascot, then winning Group 3 Gordon Stakes at Glorious Goodwood; He eventually won three Group Ones for Sir Henry Cecil's widow, Lady Jane Cecil, the latter being QIPCO Champion Stakes at Ascot, mimicking Frankel's last victory in the same contest. Kind's fourth child, Morpheus, made his first racetrack appearance in October 2012. The three relatives were also trained by Sir Henry Cecil and owned by Prince Khalid Abdulla. As a descendant of Broodmare Circassia, Frankel is from the same branch of the Thoroughbred 1-k family who also produced the 2000 Guineas Do not Forget Me winner.
Frankel grew up in the cross of Galileo-Danehill, the famous nick that is also evident in the group winners of Group 1 Teofilo, Golden Lilac, Roderic O'Connor, Maybe, Intello and Cima De Triomphe.
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Racing career
2010: two-year season
Frankel began his two-year career on August 13th in a mile race in Newmarket on soft ground. He breaks slowly, and is detained by jockey Tom Queally before making two dawn progress. He leads inside the final pitch and runs to win "easily" with half the length of future King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes winner Nathaniel John Gosden.
Four weeks later, Frankel ran at Frank Whittle Conditions Stakes for seven miles in Doncaster. Only two horses opposed it (Farhh's second favorite was withdrawn before the start) and he began to dispute 1/2. Tom Queally traces Diamond Geezah's leader before moving Frankel forward a furlong from the finish. The horse accelerated past his opponents and pulled away to win with thirteen longs from Marcel Boussac's third third of next Rainbow Springs in an impressive style.
Juddmonte Royal Lodge Stakes
On September 25, Frankel handled the Group company for the first time at the Juddmonte Royal Urban Stakes in Ascot, a race sponsored by its owner, Khalid Abdulla. The race was famous for mid-Frankel races moving around the turn of the house, and the horse beat the next Horris Hill Stakes winner Klammer with 10 long. Treasure Beach, The Derby runner-up and Irish Derby winner the following year, were beaten just under 11 long. After the race, Peter Scargill from The Racing Post said that "the jockey just pushed his hands and heels to win by ten long - it could easily become more". Trainer Henry Cecil said: "He is very impressive, he has ticked all the right boxes, and in the last two months he has started to really improve, improve and improve."
Dewhurst Stakes
Frankel's last start of the year was Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket on 16 October, his first race at Group 1. The race - called the two-year-old race of the century - also featured two other undefeated colts; Dream Ahead, a 9-length winner from Group 1 Middle Park Stakes two weeks earlier and Saamidd, a winner of Doncaster's Champagne Stakes and labeled "Pegasus" by his Godolphin stable. Frankel was held by Queally before moving on to lead the next round from the finish. He won a "comfortable" race by two and a quarter long, though hanging to the right in the closing stages. Runner-up, Roderic O'Connor, then won Group 1 CritÃÆ' Â © rium International in Saint-Cloud and then Irish 2000 Guineas as a three-year-old. The next day, Henry Cecil said: "Frankel unfortunately got a nasty lump leaving the stalls and that shocked him and the result he ran very freely... things do not always go as expected and I do not think the ground also helps.
2011: three-year season
Greenham Stakes
Frankel's preparations for 2000 Guineas and the first start of his three-year career were Greenham Stakes at Newbury on April 16 for seven furlongs. He defeated Excelebration - who later won Mehl-MÃÆ'¼lhens-Rennen (Germany 2000 Guineas) with seven lengths and Group 1 Prix du Moulin de Longchamp that season - with four lengths, showing the usual foot turn around furlong from home. After the race, coach Henry Cecil insists that the foal will increase dramatically for the event before Classic Newmarket.
2000 Guineas Bets
On April 30th, Frankel was the shortest favorite in the race since 1974 with a 1/2 odds. He jumped straight ahead, surprised many jockeys in the race, and had a second horse, winner of the Race Post Trophy Casamento, from the reins after only three furlong. Frankel led about 15 long by half way and won by six lengths; the greatest margin of victory since Tudor Minstrel in 1947.
The show was described as "almost unbelievable", while Paul Curtis of the Racing Post said afterwards that "Frankel's amazing performance puts him strongly in superstar status".
St James's Palace Stakes
Though he is an old favorite for Epsom Derby 2011, the doubts of stamina mean that Frankel did not run in the race race Blue Riband many people. Instead, the next start is at St. James Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot on 14 June. In the race, the pacemaker, Rerouted, regulates high speed and opens a sizeable lead by half way. Frankel was then asked by jockey Tom Queally to go after the leader and pass Rerouted immediately after the three-long marker, going on to open a six-lead lead in the rest of the field with two furlongs to go. However, in the final round, Zoffany's 20-1 shot began to make significant ground and Frankel finally only won by three-quarters of his length. After the race, Queally received criticism from a number of quarters for what some perceived as insolent riders, as mid-race movements seemed likely to take too many horse casualties. Although there are claims from Cecil and Queally that Frankel just stays in front, some observers see the race as the first time the horse looks less immune.
Sussex Stakes
Sussex's stakes are billed as "The Duel on the Downs" and are seen by many as the most eagerly awaited confrontation over the years. Frankel scored a five-long victory over the world's youngest player of more than one world and a five-time 1 st winner Group 1 in a row of Canford Cliffs on July 27 at Goodwood. In a fairly tactical and tactical affair, Frankel made it all run to defeat a horse that has betrayed the three-time Breeders' Cup Mile Goldikova winner in the previous race. The Canford cliffs are found to have shadows in the past, which can cause serious damage if aggravated. Thus, he retired at the veterinarian's suggestion immediately after the race.
Frankel received many awards after his victory. His coach Sir Henry Cecil said: "I thought it was a funny thing to say, but he is the best I've ever seen.I think the only thing I can compare is Shergar and Blushing Groom the best I can not go back to Tudor Minstrel days and racing games, but he's the best in my life. "During the interview Cecil also said that he expected the horse to win easily, despite having enough respect for his horse rival, Canford Cliffs.
After the victory, the British Horseracing Authority raised Frankel's official rank of 130 (tied to Australian Black Caviar) to 135, making it officially the world's best racehorse.
After Frankel's victory, rumors spread that Cecil would direct him to the Juddmonte International Stake in York in mid-August. The race, over a mile and a quarter, will be the first time Frankel will follow the distance race. However, after considering the owner of Prince Khalid Abdulla, Cecil announced on the next day that the horse will only have one more race in 2011, at Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot's inaugural QIPCO British Champions Day on October 15th.
Ownership of Queen Elizabeth II
Despite his reputation, Frankel did not intimidate the opposition on October 15 as a field of eight strong horses was declared for Queen Elizabeth II Bet. Runners include Excelebration, Prix du Moulin de Longchamp winners, Priory bet and Prix Jacques Le Marois winners Immortal Verse and Dick Turpin, who won Premio Vittorio in Capua earlier this year. The previous year's winner of Queen Elizabeth II Stakes, Godolphin-trained Voice Voice, was also featured.
Frankel won by 4 lengths with Group 1 winners Excelebration and Immortal Verse filling minor placements. This is the third time that Excelebration has succumbed to the star that Cecil trained.
He was rated Timeform 143 at the end of his three-year career and took him to fourth in the list of average ratings all the time.
2012: four-year season
While up until now Frankel has been fighting a race of no more than a mile (eight furlongs) as two and three years, his four-year campaign is expected to consist of several mid-range ten-furlong race on the calendar. In October 2011 Teddy Grimthorpe, the racing manager for Prince Khalid Abdulla, mentioned "Eclipse and Juddmonte" as potential targets in the 2012 season later, while it may be that the horse might challenge the Breeders' Cup Mile or Classic at Santa Anita as a last career start.
Trainer Sir Henry Cecil said in October 2011 that he believes his demands will increase for another winter and that horses "will earn miles and quarters very easily". Newmarket coach added: "He's really starting to grow big.You'll see a better horse next year and he's pretty good as he is."
Attack injuries
Reports appear that Frankel has suffered an injury before leaving on Wednesday 11 April while working at Racecourse Side in Newmarket. A statement from Juddmonte, owner of Frankel's operations, Khalid Abdulla, reads: "He is a tremendous driver that he beats himself." At this stage, the injuries appear shallow but he will continue to be monitored for the next few days.
Frankel performs a clear scan but, because it fills the wound, the scan for the next week is set to arrive at a more definitive diagnosis after the filling is lost.
Prior to this second scan, rumors sparked by TV reports during Grand National coverage on Aintree spread that Frankel had retired. This claim was rejected by Grimthorpe and, later, the second scan showed no damage.
On April 25, Frankel worked for the first time after causing his injury and, on May 5, Frankel took part in a public practice at Newmarket. He pulled his co-workers from Bullet Train and Jet Away in the closing stages of the exercise in a fun style Cecil.
Locking Stakes
On May 19, Frankel made his first appearance of the year in Group 1 of Lockinge Stakes in Newbury. Among his five rivals is the old rival Excelebration, who has since moved to the stable Ballydoyle at Aidan O'Brien from Marco Botti's yard in Newmarket and, as an easy winner of Sting Gladiness the previous month, has the advantage of racing fitness. However, Frankel - always ahead of Excelebration in the race - tracks his pacemaker Bullet Train before moving into the first two halves of the finish, drawing clear to win with five kicks. The Guardian correspondent described the "aura" that surrounds Frankel as "real". Henry Cecil is measured in his praise, showing that the horse is not in its best condition and will probably increase during the season.
Cecil then said: "Over the past two seasons, Frankel has come well from his first race and hopefully he will do the same this season He has strengthened and grown mentally. All being good, the next start is at Ascot both in Queen Anne or Prince of Wales, the first is my first preference right now, but we'll see. "
Queen Anne Stakes
On June 19, Frankel began a 1/10 dispute for Queen Anne's Ownership at Royal Ascot against a field that included Excelebration and Strong Suit, respectively the same second and fifth rankings of the same aged three years in the world by IFHA in 2011. Frankel lead three spheres from the finish line and draw clearly to win with eleven lengths of Excelebration. Frankel ran a second furlong from behind within 10.58 seconds, which is equivalent to a top speed of over 42 mph. The Guardian correspondent described the performance as the greatest possibility in the history of Thoroughbred racing. The timing responded to victory by raising Frankel's temporary rank to 147, the highest in organizational history, two pounds in advance of 145 recorded in 1965 by Sea-Bird. But the British Horseracing Authority handicapper, Dominic Gardiner-Hill, is more cautious. He rated the horse at 140, which is still just behind the all-time Dancing Brave marks of 141. The Racing Post gives a rating rating of 142, the highest in publication history, three pounds ahead of the Dubai Millennium.
The day after the race, Cecil said that Frankel lost his shoes towards the end of the contest. "Her feet are on the poultice as a precaution but there is no problem and she is out picking grass this morning," he said. Cecil seems to suggest that Sussex Stakes at Goodwood followed by Juddmonte's Stake in York will be the next two Frankel races.
Sussex Stakes
On 1 August Frankel repeated the previous year's victory at Sussex Stakes at Goodwood. Starting from the 1/20 odds against just three rivals, he won by six lengths from Farhh. With this victory, Frankel equaled the record of consecutive European Group 1 victories (seven in a row) set by Rock of Gibraltar, and also became the first horse to win the Sussex Stakes twice.
After the race, Jockey's Tom Queally said: "Every moment spent on Frankel's back is a special moment, he's amazing and all the others cook in half way.This is a great preparation for the next race.He is a different class from every other horse around and do it all very easily... Turn right, I slip him an inch of control You do not have to do much about him He's very competitive and he has the will to win like no other.
Lord Grimthorpe, horse racing manager, Khalid Abdulla, said: "There are two clear races for him, Juddmonte and Champion Stakes [Ascot, October 20], but there is a gap of almost two months between them, and Henry may decide to give him a race in between, maybe something like Prix du Moulin [Longchamp, September 16]. "
Juddmonte International Stakes
On August 22, Frankel won the Juddmonte International Bets in York. The race is over 10 furlongs and is the first time he ran more than a mile. As a result, there is a lot of anticipation about whether he will stay at extra distance. Starting from 1/10 odds against eight rivals, he barely came out of the bridle for an easy win with a long seven from Farhh, whose front nose of four-time Group 1 champion St Nicholas Abbey came in third. Most striking is the dominance of Frankel's very high cruising speeds, especially now looming up to 10 furlong. Indeed, the TV footage after the incident at the Winner's Enclosure shows Cecil in true admiration for his protagon, moving his hand to the horse's back to show that there is almost no sweat to be found. It was the eighth consecutive European Group win, breaking the previous seven consecutive records set by Rock of Gibraltar. After racing coach Sir Henry Cecil said "It's fantastic, it's great for Yorkshire and they deserve to see it." He attended the racetrack after losing his previous victory to Frankel because of poor health and said the victory made him feel "twenty years better."
Writing a few days after the race, Marcus Armytage says: "Forget the judgment, handicapper judgment or any other method by which you measure a racehorse with another horse, it is unlikely that the world in these two generations or previous generations has ever seen better. Frankel... What makes it unique is his ability to keep up with top-class sprinters over distances... he is a genetic lightning strike that may not be repeated for 100 years. "
Frankel is expected to have just one more race in his career, and to stand as a stallion from 2013. Having shown his ability in York to stay for ten years, there is speculation that there may be a change in his program, with the end of his life. race into twelve furlong (mi and half) Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp in October. However, on August 31, Lord Grimthorpe said that the next Frankel race would be the Champion Stakes.
Champion Stakes
On October 20, Frankel won a champion bet on Ascot for over ten miles. The soil was more tested than he faced up to now, softened, heavy on the spot, and the participation of the horse in doubt until Lord Grimthorpe walked on the field on the morning of the race and gave way on. Despite losing several times at the start, he defeated the previous year's winner Cirrus des Aigles with a length of one and three quarters, with Nathaniel two and a half longer in third. He has attracted a crowd of 32,000 sold-out people, who encouraged him from three winters. After the race, Prince Khalid Abdullah confirmed that the horse will be retired.
Corine Barande-Barbe, coach of Cirrus des Aigles, generously said after the race: "It was a great day and it was like a victory to make Frankel race." Teddy Grimthorpe commented: "The way everyone reacts to Frankel and Henry has been one of the great sporting stories of the year if not for years - it's just brilliant and totally deserved." Tom Queally said: "You never see the F1 car winning on anything but the tarmac but for him to win on the ground as it shows how special he is.There is a bigger crowd at Royal Ascot but this is more intense.I do not know what I will do if he does not win. "Sir Henry Cecil commented:" He's the best I've ever had, the best I've ever seen, I'd be very surprised if anything better. "
Among the tributes paid for Cecil's horse training is an article by Paul Hayward, chief sports writer of the Daily Telegraph, where he writes: "Frankel is the work of Cecil, the monument he will leave in his Patient racing , intelligent, empathic management of the best animals ever in Flat Racing achieved in the midst of damage due to chemotherapy and cancer... From 2,000 Guineas and beyond, Cecil began to modulate Frankel's spirit to make him settle and use more clinical speed... It took a while, but on Saturday, world number 1 was so relaxed that he fell from the stalls half asleep. "Hayward quoted Cecil as saying after the race:" I may have made it too relaxed.
Race note
Mastering career
Frankel stood in a stud at Banstead Manor Stud at Cheveley in Suffolk, where he was born. He covers his first horse on Valentine's Day, February 2013. The cost of his study in 2013 is set at Ã, Â £ 125,000. In his first season as a stallion he included 133 horses, including the winner of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe 2011 Danedream, three-time winner of the Mid-day Nassau Stakes, and Kentucky Broodmare's 2011 Oatsee year. Of them, 126 were scanned as foals for a 95 percent fertility rate. On June 16, 2014, Frankel's first horse sent to auction sold for £ 1.15m.
Frankel's first runner on the racetrack is a colt bay named Cunco who won on his debut at Newbury maiden on Friday, May 13, 2016. Cunco has the distinction of also becoming Frankel's first foal, born in Ireland at Coolmore Stud and out of Chrysanthemum which is a mare first scanned in foal to Frankel. The first major winner Frankel came in the summer of 2016 when Fair Eva won Princess Margaret Stakes and Queen Kindly took Lowther Stakes. In December he had his first winner at the highest level when his daughter Soul Stirring won the Grade 1 Hanshin Juvenile Fillies. In 2017 Soul Stirring won Yushun Himba. Frankel became the first winner of the Group 1 European race when Cracksman won the Champion Stakes in October 2017. As a result, his study costs rose from the beginning Ã, £ 125,000 to Ã, £ 175,000.
Famous progeny
c = colt, f = filly, g = kebiri
Pedigree
Note: b. = Bay, br. = Brown , ch. = Chestnut
- Frankel inbred 3 x 4 into North Dancer's horse, which means North Dancer appears once in the third generation and once in the fourth generation of his pedigree.
Bibliography
- Andrew Pennington and Racing Force, Frankel: The Wonder Horse , Post Racing, 2012, ISBN 978-1-908216-63-2
- Frankel - Official Story [DVD], 2012
See also
- List of the best Racing horse
References
External links
- Frankel's official website, by Juddmonte Farms
- Career 1-2-3 Color Chart - Frankel
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