AWESOME, FRANK-LY 'HAV' YOU SEEN HER? Dam Purchased As a Yearling by CB Agency
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SUNDAY, MAY 1, 2011 For information about TDN, call 732-747-8060. AWESOME, FRANK-LY ‘HAV’ YOU SEEN HER? Some had cast similarities with the great Dubai Every spring, there is a significant betting move on Millennium (GB) prior to yesterday and Khalid one of Newmarket=s Classic hopefuls, and a few weeks Abdullah=s brilliant Frankel (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) lived up to ago, the money was down on James and Anita Wigan=s all the hype and mass of Havant (GB) (Halling) ahead of the G1 Qipco 1000 expectation with a ruthless Guineas. Something of a dark horse entering today=s demonstration of galloping in the renewal, the unbeaten Sir Michael Stoute trainee had G1 Qipco 2000 Guineas at the subsequent UAE Derby winner Khawlah (Ire) (Cape Newmarket. He had hinted at Cross {Ire}) five lengths behind on the second of her something special to come during two winning efforts in the G3 Oh So Sharp S. over a pioneering two-year-old seven furlongs here at the beginning of October. Up campaign and in his warm-up run against some talented and proven fillies here, she has it in the G3 Greenham S. at Newbury to prove, but her conditioner believes she won=t be two weeks ago, but few expected lacking in the class department. AShe is a scopey filly, is this unprecedented show of very straightforward, and put up two very good superiority. In front from the performances last year,@ Stoute said recently. AThey outset, jockey Tom Queally let the were on ground that was softer than good on both 1-2 favorite--the shortest-priced occasions, so she loves that, and I=m a little bit Frankel since the beaten Apalachee in concerned with the way the weather is behaving. She Edward Whitaker/Racing Post 1974--use his impressive stride wouldn=t want it too fast, but we=ll see. I=ve always and he had buried all opposition found it so difficult training these Guineas fillies, and before he reached the quarter pole. Only Dubawi Gold it=s just happening for her now. The trip should not be a (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) and Native Khan (Fr) (Azamour problem.@ 1000 Guineas field p4; Editorial cont. p5 {Ire}) could emerge from the pack to chase after that in complete vain. Cont. p2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Machen Wins Under the Lights at Churchill...........p8-9 Saturday, Newmarket, Britain QIPCO 2000 GUINEAS (203RD RUNNING)-G1, Electronica >Caixa-s= in the Westchester.................p10 Dubawi Filly Reaches New Heights in Wilshire........p10 ,350,000, Newmarket, 4-30, 3yo, c/f, 1mT, 1:37.30, gd/fm. Animal Kingdom Among Several Derby Workers p16-17 1--FRANKEL (GB), 126, c, 3, by Galileo (Ire) 1st Dam: Kind (Ire), by Danehill 2nd Dam: Rainbow Lake (GB), by Rainbow Quest 3rd Dam: Rockfest, by Stage Door Johnny O-Khalid Abdullah; B-Juddmonte Farms; T-Henry Cecil; J-Tom Queally; ,198,695. Lifetime Record: 6-6-0-0, ,493,553. Werk Nick Rating: A+++ *Triple Plus*. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. 2--Dubawi Gold (GB), 126, c, 3, Dubawi (Ire)--Savannah Belle (GB), by Green Desert. (42,000gns wnlg >08 TATDEC; ,85,000 yrl >09 DONAUG; 160,000gns 2yo >10 TATAPR; 130,000gns RNA HIT >10 TATHIT). O-Andrew Tinkler; B-A H Bennett; T-Richard Hannon; ,75,320. 3--Native Khan (Fr), 126, c, 3, Azamour (Ire)--Viva Maria (Fr), by Kendor (Fr). (i70,000 yrl >09 ARQAUG; 180,000gns 2yo >10 TATAPR). O-Vefa Ibrahim Araci; B-Gilles & Aliette Forien; T-Ed Dunlop; ,37,695. Dam Purchased as a Yearling by CB Agency Margins: 6, HF, 11. Odds: 1-2, 33-1, 16-1. Also Ran: Slim Shadey (GB), Fury (GB), Happy Today, Pathfork, Rerouted, Loving Spirit (GB), Casamento (Ire), Roderic O=Connor (Ire), Saamidd (GB), Broox (Ire). P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 5/1/11 • PAGE 2 of 18 • thoroughbreddailynews.com English 2000 Guineas cont. ATo win a Classic is special, and I=m glad that he did it Bobby Frankel was a vital cog in the Juddmonte like that, as the media were building him up to be workings for a long time and it was always going to something super-equine,@ Queally added. AThey were take an unusual specimen to be named after the hall-of- right. It would have been an anti-climax to win by a famer. From the first instance, the equine namesake length. He loves galloping--they might have been showed that honor was not wasted on him and he expecting me to get cover, so I caught them on the went from a super-smooth introduction over a mile on hop. I know the horse and have a lot of confidence in the July Course here in August--where he earned him--it may have looked like I wasn=t hanging about, but J “TDN Rising Star” J status--to display electric he feels like he is doing it a lot steadier than he is. He speed when following up in a seven-furlong conditions showed a lot of speed today, and we learned that he is event at Doncaster Sept. 10. Just 15 days later, he able to motor--in the last furlong he was just idling and turned Ascot=s G2 Royal Lodge S. into a procession it=s great to sit on something so great so early in my with a 10-length victory made even more extraordinary career.@ After greeting his third and most important by a final-turn move which killed the contest. When his Guineas winner, Henry Cecil added, AI think I might margin was only 2 1/4 lengths to Roderic O=Connor (Ire) have actually got the plan wrong, as we had planned to (Galileo {Ire}) in the kill them all with his gallop, but G1 Dewhurst S. here in in the last furlong he was October, it was almost an anti- waiting for them,@ said the climax and probably cost him conditioner, who was greeting the outright Juvenile Champion his 25th British Classic winner title which he shared with and the widest-margin winner of Dream Ahead (Diktat {GB}). the Guineas since Tudor After a perfect return in Minstrel (GB) in 1947. AHe had Newbury=s G3 Greenham S. a won his race and was fortnight ago, Henry Cecil had wondering where everything stated at a press conference to else was, but we thought there launch the Champions' Series was something left in the tank. this week that his colt could Whether he=ll get a mile and a make his own running and that half is another matter.@ Cecil was the clearest indicator that continued, AIt is a relief it=s gone Edward Whitaker/Racing Post his homework had hinted at right. He=s a very, very good something extraordinary to come. If his pacemaker horse and, while it=s difficult to compare with other Rerouted (Stormy Atlantic) ever actually led Frankel, it generations and champions, he must be up there with was for a matter of seconds as Tom Queally quickly them. I=ve got ideas, and we=ll sit and think and try and established his intentions on the hot favorite which work it out, but he=s in the G2 Dante S. [at York drew Frankie Dettori and Casamento (Ire) (Shamardal) May 12] and we=ll see how he comes out of this. We=ll into early action. By the halfway mark, where his rider leave all options open and if he=s very well, he could go had a glance back, Godolphin=s G1 Racing Post Trophy there and I could easily bring him back to a mile winner was already beaten and those who had tried to afterwards for the G1 St James=s Palace S. [at Royal stay relatively close were beginning to pay the price. Ascot June 14], but I=ll discuss it with the Prince.@ His rider could not have heard anything coming inside the final quarter mile, but for safety, Frankel received Click for the Racing Post chart, the brisnet.com PPs o r some light slaps with the whip and maintained the the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, momentum all the way to the finish. courtesy Racing UK. It’s Paramount Sales Time! Derby Time for Paramount Grad Archarcharch! Oaks Time for Paramount Grad Lilacs and Lace! Time for you to enter your Sales Yearlings Call us at (859) 296-6455 P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 5/1/11 • PAGE 3 of 18 • thoroughbreddailynews.com English 2000 Guineas cont. Ryan Moore, who finished 11th on Roderic O=Connor From the Eye of the Storm... (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), told PA Sport, AI have never seen Frankel=s performance had Britain=s handicappers in a anything like that. It was the best performance I=ve ever spin, and the longstanding Halifax-based Timeform seen, and Tom [Queally] was very brave to ride him like reacted by giving the Juddmonte star a provisional that. The horse that tried to stay closest to Frankel rating of 142 pounds, which is ahead of the likes of Mill finished the furthest back, and I think that says it all. Reef, Dancing Brave and Sea the Stars (Ire) and makes It=s good for the sport to have a horse like that.@ him the co-fourth-highest-rated horse on their books. Godolphin=s Racing Manager Simon Crisford said of the Fellow trainers and jockeys unplaced pair Casamento (Ire) (Shamardal) and Saamidd were similarly blown away. (GB) (Street Cry {Ire}), AI think we=ve got to put a line Dubawi Gold=s trainer through today, as the brilliant winner had them all hard Richard Hannon at it from a long way out, and we know Casamento is a lot better than his finishing position.