14th November 2012
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Unbeaten in his fourteen starts, one of the greatest horses of all time has retired to stud
SARAH WHITEALW: Frankel, the winner of all 14 of his starts, joins just a handful of great champions to retire unbeaten.
I watched Usain Bolt and Frankel win remarkable sporting feats and have absolutely no doubt that I will never see anything like it again.
Frankel. The horse that defined a generation. And the best in 300 years. That’s something to take all our breath away!
Four of the world’s top six turf racehorses within touching distance of each other and a winning farewell for Frankel! Thats the QIPCO British Champions Day at Ascot this Saturday, to be shown live on Tellytrack.
LANCE BENSON: My reservations about Africa’s richest sand race, the Gr2 Emerald Cup, being run on the 22nd day of the month, might have been allayed somewhat by the Brits, who showed that it is not the timing but the horse that swings things.
ROBYN LOUW: Frankel is more than simply a racing phenomenon, he is a star. People are drawn to excellence and with his story of action, drama, pathos, royalty (!), friendship, loyalty and sheer brilliance, Frankel is a best-seller in anyone’s language.
SARAH WHITELAW: Frankel, whose value is said to be as high as 100 million pounds, is likely to retire after just one more start.
Frankel has reduced Camelot’sleadin the latest point standings for the 2012 Cartier Horse Of The Year Award following a facile six-length success in the Group One QIPCO Sussex Stakes at Glorious Goodwood on 1 August.
Two South African star performers in Dean Kannemeyer’s Gimme A Prince and the Vaughan Marshall champion 3yo One Stripe, who runs in Sunday’s HSH Princess Charlene Big Cap, feature in the first edition of the LONGINES World’s Best Racehorse Rankings for 2025
The tongue-twistingly named sprinter was bred and is owned in South Africa, trained by a US-based Brit and will be ridden by a French-based Belgian
