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Nothing by John Oaksey? A shocking omission. Get Oaksey on Racing and/or Mince Pie for Starters in there, quick smart!
Icespire a winner by 4l today. His fillies to see the racecourse seem much more tractable than his colts on the available evidence to date.
Has Alan moved all his horses from De Bromhead? As far as i can recall mouse Morris had one last year, de Bromhead had a few and Murphy had a few. Are they all going to tizzard or just Murphy’s ones?
Alan Potts moved his de Bromhead horses to Colm Murphy recently, and now that Murphy has announced his retirement on financial grounds, these have moved again to Tizzard.
Wow! She won it hard held like she’d just jumped in at the furlong pole. A very exciting prospect.
Could we ever see a Frankel colt or mare run over fences?…I hope not because I don’t think I would be able to watch.
Jac
I don’t know about a colt or mare – if he carries on as he’s started, they’ll be far too valuable – but we’ll definitely get some Frankel geldings over hurdles at least in the future.
I don’t know how much of it has dated as I haven’t re-read it for a while, but Horsesweat and Tears by Simon Barnes has always been a favourite of mine. Barnes is a decent journalist/writer anyway and this was his account of a year (1987) spent in John Dunlop’s stable.
Really interesting breeding posts, thanks guys.
I’d like to see Frankel get sent some good Selkirk mares. Selkirk was a better sire of fillies than colts so has the potential to be a decent broodmare sire, and he was a complete outcross to ND. Obviously some/most of his daughters will be out of mares with ND in there somewhere but it dilutes the inbreeding to an extent.
I didn’t think anything could top Charlotte and Valegro but Nick and Big Star yesterday was just incredible, and well deserved after the horse jumped like a boss at London 2012 only to narrowly miss out on an individual medal in th final round.
And he did it the hard way in the jump off – first to go of the six riders.
Interesting to note (especially in light of the “where are all the other Frankels?” sub-discussion further up) that 3/4 brother Bullet Train had his first 2yo winner yesterday. As at 19th July (the latest article I can find that mentions numbers of runners) BT had only had two offspring to hit the track, so based on Frankel’s own 2yo racing career and his brother’s start at stud, if anything he’s the outlier in having sired a handful precocious enough to run – and win – in early June.
i can think of one link but it’s not exclusive to them – they’ve all been immortalised in a statue at a racecourse. But then so have many others!
I didn’t know beforehand, Jon, I saw the video shared in a FB racing group this morning. There’s a report in the Bloodstock section of the RP now too.
Soul Stirring is a filly – nice big powerful one too.
Frankel’s first Japanese winner Soul Stirring (no. 3) ex Stacelita, showing a decent turn of foot at the death:
