Frankel flashes the headlines once again at the ROA Awards
Even after getting retired to stud unbeaten in his fourteen career starts, the super star went on to conquer the prestigious Racehorse Owners Association’s Horseracing Awards after ruling the race tracks. Frankel became the proud recipient of not one or two awards, but has easily set another record by striding away with three honours.
The title of the Horse of the Year could not have gone to anyone else and Galileo’s colt secured the respect for a straight second year. He has been rated the best miler in the world and when even that could not be beaten by any other in the field and the industry, Frankel, stood true to the claim and became the proud recipient of the mile and the middle distance horse of the year too.
His stud fee was already the third highest ever, and now with the glitz and glitter of these many awards, it is highly unlikely that the amount will remain the same. Last fee that made news was £125,000, third highest to his own father and an Australian champion, Fastnet Rock.
"The fee for Frankel reflects his merits as being perhaps the greatest racehorse we have ever witnessed. He is by Galileo, who is now recognised as the best sire in the world, and out of Kind, a winner of six races (from five to seven furlongs) and herself a daughter of one of the most influential stallions in the history of thoroughbred breeding, Danehill."
Frankel was and still is the best thing that would ever have happened to his connections, specially, his owner, Khalid Abdullah, who received the title of the owner of the year for a straight third year.
The proud jockey, Tom Queally, who will still race in the white, pink and green of Khalid Abdullah’s string will no longer ride the brilliant miler.
‘He’s the best I’ve ever had, the best I’ve ever seen,’ he said. ‘I’d be very surprised if there’s ever been better.’
"I'm so proud of him," Queally, "It's been an amazing journey and I can't tell you what it means to be part of it.
The equine sensation, Kauto Star, won the hurdler of the year while the Paul Nicholls’ trained, Big Buck’s, backed by eighteen consecutive wins took away the chaser of the year.
At such an illustrious event, the Australian star mare, Black Caviar, could not have been ignored as she won the sprinter of the year.
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