RACING POST TUESDAY AUGUST 28th 2012
WEEK MONDAY AUGUST 27th TO SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 2nd
PREVIEW TODAY'S CARDS
FRANKEL
(foaled 11 February 2008)
Sire GALILEO (IRE) b 1998 - Dam KIND (IRE) b. 2001
JMC AN INTERESTING RP SPECIAL FOCUS TODAY.
RP ASK " WOULD THE ARC BE A RACE TOO FAR FOR THE BEST HORSE IN THE WORLD?"
RP
Nicholas Godfrey (editorial editor), Tony Morris (breeding guru) Tom O'Ryan
(reporter and former jockey), Tom Pennington (bloodstock world), and Graham Rodway (trading post) assess the
options for connections of the wonder horse as they plan the denouement to a
career that has touched us all....
A Bloodhorse Literate Opinion?
Or a Bloodhorse Illiterate opinion?
What difference to FRANKEL the colt?
TOM O'RYAN
(bloodhorse literate)
"Were FRANKEL to run in and win the Champion Stakes would it enhance his standing and legacy?
"Of course it would. It would extend his unbeaten sequence
to 14 wins and bring his Group 1 victories into double figures. It would also
enable him to add a second mile-and-a-quarter triumph to his total dominance
over a mile. The unbeaten tag is important
to his legacy."
" What considerations need to be taken into account when
deciding if FRANKEL should contest the Prix de L'Arc de Triomphe?
"Whether it would be in FRANKEL'S best interest is the main
one. Others are size of field, the possibility of soft ground, allied to the
step up in distance, meeting trouble in running in a notoriously rough race and
whether he would truly stay. I think a lot of people who previously said the
only way he'd get a mile and a half would be in a horsebox were left to
question that judgement after he settled so well and stayed an extended mile
and a quarter so stoutly at York. But I don't believe he will be tried over it."
NICHOLAS GODFREY
"Were FRANKEL to run in and win the Champion Stakes would it enhance his standing and legacy?
"Perhaps more than might be
readily acknowledged right now. The intention is clearly for the Champion
Stakes to become recognised as Britain's true championship event, at the world
'Classic' distance of a mile and a quarter, with the biggest prize fund. It
will take a while but in decades to come having FRANKEL'S name on this role of
honour may well add to his legacy. Closer to hand, it wouldn't hurt to have
another top event over a mile and a quarter on his cv.
" What considerations need to be taken into account when deciding if FRANKEL should contest the Prix de L'Arc de Triomphe?
"The main one whether connections
think he will win, so we're talking about issues like trip and ground, as with
any other race. A messy race and pure bad luck are always worries at Longchamp,
but most of the greats can overcome any such issues.
"Still FRANKEL has never been
bumped around and never been oversees and his long stride requires a proper
gallop, so their are questions. Less prosaically, and maybe more crucially,
there is the issue of 'legacy': winning the Arc would plainly add something
more, something exciting, something unarguable, to the career record of the
best horse I have ever seen.
GRAEME RODWAY "No. His legacy
as one of the greats, and probably the greatest of all time, is already in
place."
JMC Comment
FRANKEL
would have never reached his present status as an unbeaten world renowned
racehorse if FRANKEL had been placed by the owner within a bloodhorse illiterate environment,
or an unbalanced bloodhorse literate team environment, handled and ridden by the bloodhorse illiterate, FRANKEL'S talents would never have been allowed to
see the light of day, leave alone to develop. The key factor balance needs to be true professional bloodhorse literacy. (Grade A)
TRUE BLOODHORSE LITERATE DAILY WORKING SKILLS
WITHIN 'TEAM CECIL'
With Bloodhorse Literate Handler Rider SHANE
FETHERSTONHAUGH (Grade A)
Handler Presenter at York last week SANDEEP GUAVARAM (Grade C)
TEAM CECIL have been carefully working with FRANKEL every single day since he was placed with Sir Henry in training by his owner, breeder Prince Khalid Abdullah as a yearling (2009) as a two year old (2010) as a three year old (2011) and this year (2012) as a four year old. Without the skills of the daily bloodhorse literate we would most probably never have heard of FRANKEL.
When watching FRANKEL and TOM QUEALLY racing we are seeing the result of the daily imput of days, weeks, months, years, of other people's work going on behind the scenes with FRANKEL. (Join Up as Monty Roberts describes bloodhorse literacy)" .
Sir Henry is always most careful to tell us where FRANKEL will run next, according to FRANKEL how he comes out of his last race.
Everything depends upon FRANKEL'S wellbeing and rightly so.
MONTY ROBERTS TRUE BLOODHORSE LITERACY SHOWN IN ACTION
BLUSHING ET DOCUMENTARY
Just
Champion for Frankel as trainer Cecil sets his sights on Ascot
for final run
PUBLISHED:22:26,
23 August 2012| UPDATED:22:26, 23 August 2012
FRANKEL
(foaled 11 February 2008)
Sire GALILEO (IRE) b 1998 - Dam KIND (IRE) b. 2001
"A British thoroughbred racehorse. FRANKEL is unbeaten in thirteen races and has been the highest-rated racehorse in the world since May 2011.[2]In 2010 as a 2 year old he defeated a field including Nathanieland Colour Vision on his debut before winning the Royal Lodge Stakes by ten lengths and the Dewhurst Stakes in which he defeated the Middle Park Stakes winner DREAM AHEAD
"In 2012 as a 4 year old FRANKEL extended his unbeaten record by winning the Lockinge Stakes, the Queen Anne Stakes and the Sussex Stakes for a second time. In August he was moved up to a mile and a quarter for the first time and won the International Stakes at York.(22.08.2012)"
FRANKEL(GB) b. C,2008DP=5-2-15-7-1(30) DI=0.94 CD=0.10-13 Starts, 13 Wins, 0 Places, 0 Shows
Career Earnings: £2,261,072
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE TWO LEGGED VARIETY
ROBERT JULIAN FRANKEL
1941 - 2009
ZARATHUSTRA
(1951 -
1967)
"Unusually for a future champion stayer, Zarathustra demonstrated precocious speed, winning three times as a two-year-old over the minimum distance of five furlongs. "
Owned by Terence Gray (Wei Wu Wei), Zarathustra
was first trained by Michael Hurley in Ireland,
becoming the winner of the Irish
Derby and the Irish St. Leger in 1954.
1953–1956: Ireland
Unusually
for a future champion stayer, Zarathustra demonstrated precocious speed,
winning three times as a two-year-old over the minimum distance of five furlongs. The
most important of these was the Blake Plate at Phoenix Park. In 1955 he was one of the
best horses in Ireland,
winning the Irish Derby and the Irish
St. Leger as well as the Desmond
Plate at the Curragh. Following his win in the Irish Derby,
Gray reportedly turned down an offer of £20,000 for the horse.[1]
As a four-year-old Zarathustra won the Royal
Whip Stakes.
1956–1957: Britain
After
one unsuccessful run in early 1956 he was transferred to England where he was trained at Newmarket, Suffolk by Cecil Boyd-Rochfort. By the end of the season
he had won four races in Britain
including the Ascot Stakes (by five lengths)[2]
and the Goodwood
Cup. In 1957 Zarathustra sustained a fracture to his cannon bone
which threatened his racing career.[1]
After spending two months recuperating in his stable he returned to the
racecourse to run in the Ascot Gold Cup. The stable jockey, Harry Carr
preferred to ride the Queen's runner Atlas, leaving Zarathustra to be
ridden by Lester Piggott.[3]
After racing just behind the leaders, Zarathustra took the lead early in the
straight and won the race by one and a half lengths from the St
Leger winner Cambremer.[4]
Exported to Japan
in 1964, he died there in 1967.
