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Originally Posted by King Glorious (Post 885421)

Well damn. Dammmmmmmn. Dominating win by a truly great horse. Not the greatest of competition but good enough to find out how he'd do in a different situation. Wow. After this, I'm wondering if they might reconsider the Arc? He destroyed the field with Farhh second, St. Nicholas Abbey third, and Twice Over fourth. Another wow.

Saw on Twitter a few minutes ago that this is under consideration. "Whispers" they called it.

That was awesome!

Found this good pictures of Frankel as a yearling (I do love they named this one after Bobby)

At the end of his 3-year-old year he was valued at $100 million

Now he owns the world:

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Originally Posted by Arletta (Post 885445)

2:06.. Is that a track/stake record? :eek:

Sea The Stars was a second and a half faster on similar ground.

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Originally Posted by Mawhip (Post 885473)

Sea The Stars was a second and a half faster on similar ground.

Who wins this race with Frankel, Dubai Millenium, Sea the Stars and Zarkava?

I go with DM.

Sea The Stars vs Frankel. What a race that would have been!

I'd have to side with Frankel. If not already, then should he win the Arc, he will be the best European horse ever.

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Originally Posted by Indian Charlie (Post 885475)

Who wins this race with Frankel, Dubai Millenium, Sea the Stars and Zarkava?

I go with DM.

Zenyatta.

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Originally Posted by Sightseek (Post 885486)

Zenyatta.

There is no way that she could have tolerated the flight over that big pond.

With only one or two starts remaining in his career could you imagine Frankel closing out his career in the Arc?

I know it may be a bit far-fetched, seeing as the Arc is probably not a race you just decide to enter, but rather a race you train up to all year long. But I think that would be a great way for Frankel to close out his career!

If not I think that it would be really amazing if Camelot were to win the UK Triple Crown and Frankel and him lined up in the same starting gate together! What a race that would turn out to be! I think that Frankel would win but Camelot is undoubtedly a special horse and that would be a great match up. Perhaps the best match up that Europe could have to offer this year.

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Originally Posted by Riot (Post 885470)

That was awesome!

Found this good pictures of Frankel as a yearling (I do love they named this one after Bobby)

At the end of his 3-year-old year he was valued at $100 million

Now he owns the world:

Imagine if he didnt have pints of blood pouring out of his lungs? I just feel awful for the poor guy having to race so hard without lasix

Too bad Ryan Moore got injured and couldn't keep the mount on Planteur...:wf

Seeing that race was a great start to my birthday.

And I think Frankel could take Sea the Stars.

Wow.

I really thought this would be his hardest test yet and he'd have to work for it. But he cruised in. Amazing animal.

finally got the chance to watch. he made that look easy.

Frankel's victory at York made me feel 'twenty years better', says trainer Sir Henry Cecil, as he battles cancer

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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.”

When asked how it made him feel, the trainer, who has to issue written instructions to his staff, said: “Twenty years better.”

http://www.timeform.com/show_article.asp?num=3185

Timeform's View - Simon Rowlands' Blog: Frankel, The Superequine

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Sectional timing gives every encouragement. While there were no spectacular sub-11-second furlongs in evidence, Frankel finished the race notably strongly, covering the last two furlongs in 23.55 seconds and in 103.4% of his average race speed while his nearest rivals ran much nearer to 100%.

The reason why Frankel did not (quite) run sub-11-second furlongs is simple. The race itself was run at a sound pace, unlike some of his previous ones, and tested stamina more than raw speed.

The overall time of 2 min 06.59 sec was 1.30 seconds outside the course record set by Sea The Stars in this race in 2009. But, crucially, all the times were slower in 2012 than for the equivalent races three years earlier. Once you adjust for conditions, including wind, Frankel's performance against the clock emerges comfortably the better.

Indeed, Frankel's Timeform timefigure comes out at 136, which is the equal of his timefigure in the 2000 Guineas last year and means that he has the two best time-based ratings by any horse this century.

The arguments about whether Frankel is better than Sea-Bird (145 in 1965) or Brigadier Gerard (144 in 1972) are unlikely to go away, even now, but it is worth remembering that not one horse surpassed 140 in the years after Brigadier Gerard retired and before Frankel burst onto the scene. Frankel has now surpassed that mark six times in a row once ease of victory is allowed for.