Frankel to secure the 2012 Qipco Sussex Stakes in a field pronounced with weak entries
The series of success at the Glorious Goodwood meeting has just started for trainer, Sir Henry Cecil, who won the Group 3 Bet365 Gordon Stakes yesterday through his under charge, Noble Mission. However, for Frankel’s trainer this much does not suffice as Galileo’s bay colt is defending his Group 1 Qipco Sussex Stakes (British Champions Series) at Goodwood over a mile on Wednesday, 1st August.
Last year he won the race from Canford Cliffs by five lengths and this time an altogether new margin is being defined for the unbeaten colt. The lengths by which he has won after that have become massive and according to, Dominic Gardiner-Hill, the handicapper at BHA who is responsible for milers, the lengths to favour Frankel today can increase to an easy ten with high possibilities of an eleven too.
The top miler did win the Group 1 Queen Anne Stakes (British Champions Series) on 19th June, 2012 at the Ascot race course by eleven lengths, setting Excelebration as the runner-up for a straight third time and a total of four times.
Frankel is putting his impeccable record on the line for a twelfth time and will get back to the connections with the £179,487 prize money. The four-year-old has taken down some highly talented and truly versatile fields before and this one does not come at par with any of his attempts before.
His stable mate, Bullet Train, remains to be the pace setter for yet another race and the two that remain, Farhh and Gabrial, will not be an issue for the star colt to over ride.
This is the only event that has managed distracting the frenzied audience from the Olympics as despite the weather forecast an audience of 13,000 were in attendance yesterday, and today double the number of spectators are expected at the race course.
“The Olympics heads the great summer of British sport, and we are proud to be a part of that. Because the Olympics is taking place, there is no other major event in the south of England besides Glorious Goodwood. We have been going for more than 200 years so we must have confidence in the product,” the managing director at Goodwood, Adam Waterworth said.
Fighting with stomach cancer, the proud trainer of the wondrous colt remains deprived of attending such an important meeting.
Queally said: 'It is amazing to think that a horse so good can, like he showed last time, get even better. 'When you win the Queen Anne by 11 lengths, if that is not a peak I don't know what is. He puts his head down and gallops all the way to the line.”
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