FRIDAY OCTOBER 19th RACING POST 2012. FRANKEL WEEK COUNTDOWN TO CHAMPIONS DAY 2012 ASCOT TOMORROW

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RACING POST FRIDAY OCTOBER 19th 2012 .

WEEK MONDAY OCTOBER 15th TO SUNDAY OCTOBER 21st

REVIEW YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
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PREVIEW TODAY'S CARDS

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WORLDWIDE STAKES RACES TODAY

1:20	MRS	Prix Andre Baboin (Grand Prix des Provinces) (Group 3) (3yo+) (Turf) 1m2f	Card	Betting
6:54	BLP	Frank ´Pancho´ Martin Stakes (Listed Race) (3yo+) (Dirt) 1m110y	Card	Betting

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 Trainer Sir Henry Cecil hails Frankel's career
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19992803

 

 

 

 

 

Ascot could be heavy for Champions Day

By David Baxter 11:19AM 17 OCT 2012

 

 

CHAMPIONS DAY at Ascot on Saturday could potentially take place on heavy ground after a significant amount of rain fell at the track on Tuesday night.

 

http://www.racingpost.com/news/horse-racing/cotc-chris-stickels-ascot-going-could-be-heavy-for-champions-day-with-rain-forecast/1135085/#newsArchiveTabs=last7DaysNews




"FRANKEL WEEK WHAT DOES TOMORROW HAVE INSTORE?

All depends upon how well the Turf Track at Ascot  has managed to cope with the heavy rain, as summed up by Paul Cole in this morning's Racing Post:

Paul Cole

"FRANKEL only has one thing to beat and that is the ground. It's been a difficult year for clerks of courses and trainers and it would be awful if it keeps raining.

 

"With FRANKEL you have to believe what you see and that he is probably the best horse any of us have ever seen. I saw the trainer at the sales and he told me the horse is in fantastic condition. If he can handle the going he should win as he's the best there's been for a long, long time, but the ground could spoil the party."

 

 

 

JMC Turfcall Comment.

FRANKEL is only four years old now this year  2012.

FRANKEL Foaled in 2008

FRANKEL a yearling from January 1st 2009

A two year old from January 1st 2010 FRANKEL'S winning debut performance and the other challenges he faced as a two-year-old, he won all his races, with ease.

 

A three year old on January 1st 2011 FRANKEL goes from strength to strength winning all his races with ease, learns to settle much better with attention paid, careful handling, riding to gain his trust and his confidence the number one priority. Achieved.

Throughout 2012 FRANKEL now as a four-year-old has absorbed all he has been asked to absorb, throughout 2009 as a yearling. Throughout 2010 as a two-year-old. Throughout 2011 as a three-year-old. And now throughout 2012 as a four year old, again we see FRANKEL  going forward again  from strength to strength, with the same Team building his superstar talent.

 

All his working life to date FRANKEL has been learning. Frankel has been allowed to learn

and to develop, whilst at the same time reaching peak athletic fitness for all the races that he has been asked to challenge,  he has gone out and won them all. FRANKEL has been allowed to developed and to understand what is being asked of him, he has grown into a confident and a happy racehorse. All his prep homework learned through careful patient 'Bloodhorse Literate Know How' a great and wonderful achievement by TEAM CECIL united. 

 

The skill and art, the hard work, the thrills, the spills, the disappointments and the heart break but through it all the true friendship of some wonderful horses. The bustle of Morning Stables. The tranquillity of Evening Stables every day of every week, fair weather or foul, the discipline and routine continue to evolve. Favourite horses ... big winners, brave losers, extracts of those magic moments, characters and horses, going about their varied tasks on the racecourses at exercise, on the gallops, in the paddocks and in the stable yard. The homework that goes into preparation of an animal for the track, and the results of those efforts .... win, loose or draw. ... big winners or brave losers

 

 

 

 

Tomorrow's Horse Racing Cards

RACES SHOWN ON TERRESTRIAL TV

1:45	ASC	Qipco British Champions Long Distance Cup (Group 3) Cl1 2m BBC1	Card	Betting
2:00	CHE	Edward Gillespie Hands Over The Reins Novices´ Hurdle Cl3 3m1f110y CH4	Card
2:15	CAT	totepool.com Fillies´ Nursery Cl4 7f CH4	Card	Betting
2:20	ASC	Qipco British Champions Sprint Stakes (Group 2) Cl1 6f BBC1	Card	Betting
2:30	CHE	BetVictor.com Handicap Chase Cl2 2m4f CH4	Card	Betting
2:50	CAT	totescoop6 Catterick Dash (Handicap Stakes) Cl2 5f CH4	Card	Betting
2:55	ASC	Qipco British Champions Fillies´ And Mares´ Stakes (Group 2) Cl1 1m4f BBC1	Card	Betting
3:05	CHE	Masterson Holdings Hurdle Cl2 2m110y CH4	Card
3:15	KEL	EDF-ER Fallago Rig Handicap Chase Cl3 3m2f CH4	Card
3:30	ASC	Queen Elizabeth II Stakes Sponsored By Qipco (British Champions Mile) (Group 1) Cl1 1m BBC1	Card	Betting
3:40	CHE	Ryman The Stationer Handicap Chase Cl2 3m110y CH4	Card
4:05	ASC	Qipco Champion Stakes (British Champions Middle Distance) (Group 1) Cl1 1m2f BBC1	Card	Betting

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WORLDWIDE STAKES RACES

6:05	CAU	BMW Caulfield Cup (Group 1 Handicap) (3yo+) (Turf) 1m4f	Card
1:45	ASC	Qipco British Champions Long Distance Cup (Group 3) Cl1 2m BBC1	Card	Betting
2:20	ASC	Qipco British Champions Sprint Stakes (Group 2) Cl1 6f BBC1	Card	Betting
2:55	ASC	Qipco British Champions Fillies´ And Mares´ Stakes (Group 2) Cl1 1m4f BBC1	Card	Betting
3:30	ASC	Queen Elizabeth II Stakes Sponsored By Qipco (British Champions Mile) (Group 1) Cl1 1m BBC1	Card	Betting
3:45	COK	Corkracecourse.ie Navigation Stakes (Listed Race) 1m100y	Card
4:05	ASC	Qipco Champion Stakes (British Champions Middle Distance) (Group 1) Cl1 1m2f BBC1	Card	Betting

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ASCOT AR/RU

MEETING INFO COURSE MAPSTATISTICSFAVOURITESSIGNPOSTSSTANDARD TIMESPRINT-OUTS

GOING: SOFT (GoingStick: Stands' side 7.0, Centre 7.2, Far side 7.1, Round 5.8). (Scattered showers)
STALLS: Straight course - Stands' side; Round course - Inside

1:45	Qipco British Champions Long Distance Cup (Group 3) Cl1 2m BBC1	Card	Betting
2:20	Qipco British Champions Sprint Stakes (Group 2) Cl1 6f BBC1	Card	Betting
2:55	Qipco British Champions Fillies´ And Mares´ Stakes (Group 2) Cl1 1m4f BBC1	Card	Betting
3:30	Queen Elizabeth II Stakes Sponsored By Qipco (British Champions Mile) (Group 1) Cl1 1m BBC1	Card	Betting
4:05	Qipco Champion Stakes (British Champions Middle Distance) (Group 1) Cl1 1m2f BBC1	Card	Betting
4:45	Qipco Future Stars Apprentice Handicap Cl2 7f	Card	Betting

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«4:05 »Ascot

SAT 20 OCT 2012 Ascot 1:45Ascot 2:20Ascot 2:55Ascot 3:30Ascot 4:05Ascot 4:45Catterick 1:40Catterick 2:15Catterick 2:50Catterick 3:25Catterick 4:00Catterick 4:40Catterick 5:15Catterick 5:45Cheltenham 2:00Cheltenham 2:30Cheltenham 3:05Cheltenham 3:40Cheltenham 4:20Cheltenham 4:55Cheltenham 5:30Cork (IRE) 2:10Cork (IRE) 2:40Cork (IRE) 3:10Cork (IRE) 3:45Cork (IRE) 4:20Cork (IRE) 4:50Cork (IRE) 5:20Caulfield (AUS) 6:05Kelso 2:05Kelso 2:40Kelso 3:15Kelso 3:50Kelso 4:30Kelso 5:05Kelso 5:40Wolverhampton (AW) 5:50Wolverhampton (AW) 6:20Wolverhampton (AW) 6:50Wolverhampton (AW) 7:20Wolverhampton (AW) 7:50Wolverhampton (AW) 8:20Wolverhampton (AW) 8:50Wolverhampton (AW) 9:20

 

Qipco Champion Stakes (British Champions Middle Distance) (Group 1) (CLASS 1) (3yo+) Winner £737,230 BBC1
Soft 1m2f Number of runners: 6

SHOW: Comments Form Notes Pedigrees Owner Conditions

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The Telegraph

By Marcus Armytage (Bloodhorse Literate)

7:00AM BST 23 Aug 2012

2 Comments

"CECIL, who owns a stud at nearby Helmsley, was born in Scotland but is one of Yorkshire’s

 

most popular adopted sons and, as much as the cheering was for his wonder horse, an equal

 

 amount was for the trainer, an integral part of the story and whose comeback from the

 

brink has been so intertwined with this one horse FRANKEL.

 

"FRANKEL'S victory at York made me feel 'twenty years better', says trainer Sir Henry Cecil,

as he battles cancer. "

 

"Even by Sir Henry Cecil's standards the reception accorded him and his horse on

 

Knavesmire was something special, the sort of noise reserved for victors on the history-

 

sodden fields of Aintree and Cheltenham and rarely heard in the more reserved and refined

 

enclosures of the Flat.

"Still fighting cancer, suffering from a desperately low immune system and looking thin and

 

frail underneath his black fedora, Cecil has hardly been seen on a racecourse since Frankel

 

won at Royal Ascot. Just getting to York had been such an obvious effort and that was a fact

 

hugely appreciated in this most sporting of counties, but the feeling was mutual. “It’s

 

fantastic,” whispered Cecil. “It’s great for Yorkshire and they deserved to see him.”

 

MR FRISK

 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/horseracing/9492952/Frankels-victory-at-York-made-me-feel-twenty-years-better-says-trainer-Sir-Henry-Cecil-as-he-battles-cancer.html#


MARCUS  ARMYTAGE
(Bloodhorse Literate)
 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/columnists/marcus-armytage/ 

MR FRISK partner MARCUS ARMYTAGE
Winner - 1990 Grand National
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrL9FL8jJ0E