First foal for Frankel

erins isle · Postby **erins isle** » Wed Jan 15, 2014 6:40 am

http://www.racingpost.com/news/live.sd? ... category=0

dublino · Postby **dublino** » Thu Jan 16, 2014 6:15 am

Not pushed on him as a sire, I predict another disappointment.

Such a high fee of £125,000 for something unproven.
With a first book of 40 G1 winners or producers he has every opportunity nothing more than 4 G1 winners in his first crop will be a failure.

Affirmed1 · Postby **Affirmed1** » Thu Jan 16, 2014 4:07 pm

[quote="dublino"]Not pushed on him as a sire, I predict another disappointment.

Such a high fee of £125,000 for something unproven.
With a first book of 40 G1 winners or producers he has every opportunity nothing more than 4 G1 winners in his first crop will be a failure.[/quote]

The best racehorse in memory out of the best sire in the world, who is showing promise of being a sire of sires. What's not to love? Picky Picky Picky!

dublino · Postby **dublino** » Fri Jan 17, 2014 2:04 am

He was not the best racehorse in the world, he never ran outside of England.

He only ran at a mile and 10f twice and nearly got beat over 10f.

The English were bashing Black Caviar saying that she couldn't be rated as one of the best sprinters ever as she was beating the same opposition in her home country every time she raced by the same margins, exactly what Frankel did.

English Champion yes, European Champion NO, World Champion Never, Best Horse ever Hell No.

Cryptic Ninja · Postby **Cryptic Ninja** » Sat Feb 22, 2014 4:59 am

dublino wrote:Not pushed on him as a sire, I predict another disappointment.

Such a high fee of £125,000 for something unproven.
With a first book of 40 G1 winners or producers he has every opportunity nothing more than 4 G1 winners in his first crop will be a failure.

I feel the same.

Affirmed1 wrote:The best racehorse in memory out of the best sire in the world, who is showing promise of being a sire of sires. What's not to love? Picky Picky Picky!

The funny thing is that most of the best racehorses in history with his 140+ TF rating have been outrank failures. I wouldn't be so sure he can buck that trend.....just saying.

pfrsue · Postby **pfrsue** » Sat Feb 22, 2014 6:42 pm

Juddmonte posted a video of the filly (including some of the foaling) here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8yArzWV ... e=youtu.be

Pretty girl.