Frankel

[EJXD2]

Is ThoroGraph willing to share what Frankel\'s sheet looked like heading into the Queen Anne?

[magicnight]

Guess Frankel does not want to visit the adopted home of his namesake:

\"We will leave our options open now. He will tell me what to do, I don\'t tell him. Will he go abroad? It\'s very unlikely,\" added Cecil.

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2012/06/19/sports/19reuters-horse-racing-ascot.html?hp

[sighthound]

That\'s a strange bit of editing they decided to do to that quote, truncating it so markedly.  Here, courtesy of Bloodhorse, is the entire quote:

Cecil told reporters, \"I\'m not surprised but relieved, no horse is a certainty. He\'s a great horse, he did exactly what I thought he would but he\'s still improving.\"

\"It looks like he\'ll stay a mile and a quarter, he\'s in the Eclipse, Sussex Stakes, and Juddmonte, we\'ll feel our way and he\'ll tell me what to do.\"

\"It\'s very unlikely he\'ll go for the Breeders\' Cup,\" Cecil added.

Read more on BloodHorse.com: http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/70659/undefeated-frankel-wins-queen-anne-by-11#ixzz1yG1beAfF

This horse is unbelievable. Winner by 11 lengths.   Black Caviar runs closing day, Saturday.

[magicnight]

\"That\'s a strange bit of editing they decided to do to that quote, truncating it so markedly.\"

Well, it\'s Reuters and it\'s after lunch, and they start pretty early over there.

[sighthound]

I laughed

Frankle could be better than Secretariat.  What an awesome horse.

[Beau]

He even lost a shoe during the running! FREAK!

[sighthound]

Seriously?  Geesh. This horse is legend.

Here we go:  video available now down the page  http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/70659/undefeated-frankel-wins-queen-anne-by-11

And here\'s about 10 minutes with Peter Moody and Black Caviar in England.  Note that Black Caviar is wearing her compression suit when out for the press.  Probably would be Banned in New York.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tNegDe7Ej7A#!

[Beau]

It\'s official. Timeform are rating Frankel on 147. That\'s 2lb higher than Sea-Bird and the best by any horse ever...

[Rick B.]

magicnight Wrote:
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> Well, it\'s Reuters and it\'s after lunch, and they
> start pretty early over there.

Very funny and true.

Doesn\'t make them bad guys, though.    Q>--|

[miff]

The way he separated from the field in the last quarter was electric. Anyone know how fast he finished. Euros not too big on split info.

[magicnight]

Damn! Just saw the replay for the first time. Unreal!

http://www.racingpost.com/news/live.sd?event_id=179183

[Boscar Obarra]

Hard to believe the others are even thoroughbreds. Is he that good? ;-)

[plasticman]

Time to come to America and try and win the Classic on dirt?

Or, is that too much to ask?

[sighthound]

Why bother?

[plasticman]

Because you want to be known as the greatest ever and you can\'t be known as the greatest ever if you only run on turf in  your homeland?