Frankel

[booner]

Originally Posted by Kasept

Truly unbelievable.

Okay folks, help me out. I'm at work and didn't get to see it. How impressive was it?

[hockey2315]

Originally Posted by booner

Okay folks, help me out. I'm at work and didn't get to see it. How impressive was it?

From the TDN:

FRANKEL (GB), c, 3, Galileo (Ire)--Kind (Ire), by Danehill.
O-Khalid Abdullah; B-Juddmonte Farms; T-Henry Cecil; J-Tom Queally. Lifetime Record: 6-6-0-0, £493,553.
Some had cast similarities with the great Dubai Millennium (GB) prior to today and Frankel (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) lived up to all the hype and mass of expectation with a ruthless success in the G1 Qipco 2000 Guineas at Newmarket. In front from the outset, Tom Queally let the 1-2 pick use his impressive stride and he had buried all opposition before he reached the quarter pole. Only Dubawi Gold (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) and Native Khan (Fr) (Azamour {Ire}) could emerge from the pack to chase after that, but Khalid Abdullah's unbeaten colossus was far gone and hit the line six lengths clear of the former, with Native Khan a further half length back with daylight behind him. "He did it better than I even thought he'd do it," Queally said after this breathtaking win. "He just made a show of them and to him that speed feels like a cruising canter."

[booner]

Originally Posted by hockey2315

From the TDN:

FRANKEL (GB), c, 3, Galileo (Ire)--Kind (Ire), by Danehill.
O-Khalid Abdullah; B-Juddmonte Farms; T-Henry Cecil; J-Tom Queally. Lifetime Record: 6-6-0-0, £493,553.
Some had cast similarities with the great Dubai Millennium (GB) prior to today and Frankel (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) lived up to all the hype and mass of expectation with a ruthless success in the G1 Qipco 2000 Guineas at Newmarket. In front from the outset, Tom Queally let the 1-2 pick use his impressive stride and he had buried all opposition before he reached the quarter pole. Only Dubawi Gold (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) and Native Khan (Fr) (Azamour {Ire}) could emerge from the pack to chase after that, but Khalid Abdullah's unbeaten colossus was far gone and hit the line six lengths clear of the former, with Native Khan a further half length back with daylight behind him. "He did it better than I even thought he'd do it," Queally said after this breathtaking win. "He just made a show of them and to him that speed feels like a cruising canter."

Thanks hockey.

[TouchOfGrey]

Originally Posted by booner

Okay folks, help me out. I'm at work and didn't get to see it. How impressive was it?

Video here: Phenomenal Frankel blitzes Guineas rivals

[TheSpyder]

What kind of fractions for the race? Do they even keep them?

[Arletta]

http://www.independent.ie/sport/hors...l-2634903.html

[Indian Charlie]

Originally Posted by Arletta

http://www.independent.ie/sport/hors...l-2634903.html

I think the announcer got a bit carried away when he called Frankel up by 15.

[brockguy]

chalk up another G1 7/7

[RolloTomasi]

Originally Posted by brockguy

chalk up another G1 7/7

One of the worst rides ever. The only thing worse was the Japanese horse sporting the colors of Secretariat.

Zoffany is OK, but the field overall wasn't imposing. That jockey will get Frankel beat sooner rather than later.