Frankel

If there is an upset with this beast it has to be today. 7f looks the bare minimum trip now at three , really bred imo for middle distances being by Galileo, also Cecil yet to saddle a winner in 167 days , so it could be needing this run before bigger and better things over further, who knows but at 1.35 its surely no value and little downside. Layed it for £200 liabilty £75. In running ....if there's a scorching gallop from the gate it should be suited more with stamina to kick in the final furlong, slow or muddling pace and it gets beat.

fingers Xed.

bitofatwat wrote:If there is an upset with this beast it has to be today. 7f looks the bare minimum trip now at three , really bred imo for middle distances being by Galileo, also Cecil yet to saddle a winner in 167 days , so it could be needing this run before bigger and better things over further, who knows but at 1.35 its surely no value and little downside. Layed it for £200 liabilty £75. In running ....if there's a scorching gallop from the gate it should be suited more with stamina to kick in the final furlong, slow or muddling pace and it gets beat.

fingers Xed.

He took a while to pick up but looked impressive. No El Gran Senor but probably pretty good.

Volonte wrote:

bitofatwat wrote:If there is an upset with this beast it has to be today. 7f looks the bare minimum trip now at three , really bred imo for middle distances being by Galileo, also Cecil yet to saddle a winner in 167 days , so it could be needing this run before bigger and better things over further, who knows but at 1.35 its surely no value and little downside. Layed it for £200 liabilty £75. In running ....if there's a scorching gallop from the gate it should be suited more with stamina to kick in the final furlong, slow or muddling pace and it gets beat.

fingers Xed.

He took a while to pick up but looked impressive. No El Gran Senor but probably pretty good.

Yes he's a machine the way he pulled even with the good gallop suggests he has bags of speed. The 2000 G now looks his for the taking.

Whatever happened to him?

NotBert wrote:Whatever happened to him?

Grew up into an even better'er middle distance horse. Think he could be crowned the best ever now.

you reckon boat?

not just a poor crop then?

No, Eric. The horse is an outstanding phenomenon.

Whatever people think of St Nicholas Abbey, he's no slouch and Frankel went past him like he wasn't there. There's way too much collateral form for him to be in front of an average crop only and the middle distance horses are, if anything, a better than average lot

- Danedream is the fastest Arc winner ever, who beat Nathaniel by the shortest of short heads last up, St Nicholas Abbey a length and a half back. St Nicholas Abbey has taken on the best of the USA and done for it.
- Nathaniel, who was second to him on debut - what a fucking race that has turned out to be - has turned into a champion who has been unlucky with untimely injury.
- Excelebration, after finishing second in its maiden, has won every race bar five and has only had six horses in front of him. The five winners who beat him were Frankel every time. He is a stand out miler in his own right but a poor second to Frankel.

That's the best middle distance form in the world and they're a hearty bunch. As an example of the horse, the betting shop I ducked in to watch in the week was busier than I've ever seen it outside the mug festivalsand he was of course unbackable. It was a Wednesday, a flat day even for mug festivals.

Oddity here

http://www.racingpost.com/horses/result_home.sd?race_id=511657&r_date=2010-08-13&popup=yes#results_top_tabs=re_&results_bottom_tabs=ANALYSIS

British Champions Series Group 1 winners at first and second, the third is a Group 3 Classic Trial winner. Fourth only raced once afterwards, fifth is now plying its trade in the States, sixth has had a career of sand and hurdling, seventh won a handicap, now plying its trade in France, eighth, won a maiden and is now in Ireland, ninth, a clutch of low grade handicap wins flat and hurdles, tenth, a couple of low grade handicap wins, eleventh, beaten 29 lengths, British Champions Series Group 1 winner of the Ascot Gold Cup this year, twelfth, half a dozen runs, career petered out.

Yes, you read that right for the eleventh.