A son of Galileo, Frankel, whose ten Gr1 scores include wins in the Royal Ascot features the St James’s Palace Stakes and Gr1 Queen Anne Stakes, has already had a superb year in 2021, and the champion’s success continued at the Royal meeting last week.
Mohaafeth wins the Hampton Court Stakes (Pic – Megan Ridgwell)
Frankel, whose son Adayar won the 2021 Cazoo Derby by four and a half lengths with another Frankel colt, Hurricane Lane, finishing third, supplied a trio of winners at Ascot, and Frankel’s promising three-year-old daughter Snow Lantern caught the eye when running second in the G1 Coronation Stakes at the Royal Meeting.
Not only was Frankel responsible for the impressive Gr3 Hampton Court Stakes winner Mohaafeth and Listed Wolferton Stakes hero Juan Elcano, but Frankel colt Amtiyaz beat Frankel mare Dubious Affair into second place when the pair finished first and second in Tuesday’s Copper Horse Stakes.
Mohaafeth, now a winner of four of six starts, is out of a mare by Sea The Stars -the brilliant half-brother to Frankel’s own sire Galileo.
Mohaafeth has a South African connection -his third dam, former Cherry Hinton Stakes runner up Red Rita, is a daughter of the former South African based stallion Kefaah.
Interestingly, Juan Elcano and Amtiyaz are out of mares sired by half-brothers Daylami and Dalakhani respectively, making both colts closely inbred to Miswaki.
Frankel’s triple Gr1 winning own brother Noble Mission also made the frame at Ascot, with his son Spanish Mission finishing third in Thursday’s G1 Gold Cup.
However, as successful as Frankel was at the 2021 Royal Ascot meeting, his remarkable sire Galileo exerted even more influence over proceedings.
Broodmare sire of a pair of winners on Saturday – he is maternal sire of Golden Gates Stakes winner Foxes Tales and Queen Alexandra Stakes victor Stratum – Galileo is also responsible for Love, who was such a game winner of Wednesday’s Gr1 Prince Of Wales’s Stakes at Ascot.
Subjectivist wins the Gold Cup
Galileo is also the sire of the unbeaten Teofilo -whose son Subjectivist captured this year’s Gr1 Gold Cup, while other sire sons of Galileo to taste success at Royal Ascot in 2021 include Nathaniel, Gleneagles, and Australia.
The latter went close to having a notable double with Australia’s son Point Lonsdale running out an impressive winner of Saturday’s Listed Chesham Stakes and Point Lonsdale’s full-brother Broome taking second spot in the same day’s Gr2 Hardwicke Stakes.
The uber impressive 2021 Gr1 St James’s Palace Stakes winner Poetic Flare is a son of Galileo’s St James’s Palace Stakes winning grandson Dawn Approach, while Galileo is also broodmare sire of rising star sire Night Of Thunder – whose daughter Highfield Princess captured Thursday’s Buckingham Palace Stakes.
