this never gets old. I have to visit this video once a year to remember. I will never ever forget watching this horse fly past me at Ascot. Breathtaking
I'm a US fan, and I know I'm supposed to be bias in favor of great dirt horses, but the middle half mile of this race is the most ridiculous thing I'm seen in racing. He shouldn't be able to run that course, like that, and still win. Much less by open lengths. 40 years I've been watching racing, and Frankel is the best I've seen.
To be fair though bro,FRANKEL was that good,I think any tactics would have worked,I could have rode him to victory,you could probably put him in a five furlong race and he would have won,his first race was over 7,I think the Frankel team made a huge mistake by not flying him over for the Breeders cup on his retirement season,I watch it every year and my opinion is he would have destroyed them,but hey,we will never ever know now,they just didn’t want to take that risk,him get upset,lose,and watch them good old stud fees take a plunge
He ran it llike a 5f race, Just nuts, all wrong but so right. TQ just knew what we suspected but didn't fully realise then that he was just a class apart. How many sprinters could have lived with that?
This horse will always be known for been the best horse in english history..I think they should of took him over to America for the breeders cup turf thow the Americans would of loved him too
The only time the word ‘Destroyed’ should be used to describe a horse race. The tone he has at “15 lengths clear” immediately makes you understand the gravity of this performance. He was one of a kind #FrankelForever
As an aussie I absolutely loved watching this marvel run I am a true lover of all horses but to have had the privilege of watching equine freaks such as frankel, black caviar, winx, altior , sunline , fairy king prawn , beauty generation etc it gives you goosebumps to watch the truly special ones go about there work
@@billymiller4586 thats it mate its the best natural rush i certainly get i love seeing the champions going about there business same as i love watching the best jockeys at work in Australia i absolutely love the western australian jockey William 'the wizard ' Pike regularly rides 250 plus winners a season and hes got a cult following among us eastern seaboarders back pike in the last in perth as he seems to have an uncanny knack of gettin up in the last race and getting punters out of a bad day or making it even better lol
Had the pleasure of seeing him at York last week playing with the rest of the group one field in the Juddmonte. The most awesome display of power I've ever seen...Let's not forget Tom Queally who has an amazing bond with this superstar, and Sir Henry who's brilliant mind has guided him to this level. Unforgettable day, I shed a tear or two. I've seen some greats, I'm lucky enough to be from York and have seen many special races over the years. This racehorse is a different class.
I love this commentary. The shear disbelief of the commentator when he says "he's 15 lengths clear" What a race, what a horse. Sad I wasn't into horse racing at the time Frankel was around
The most amazing moment ever in racing , the formidable FRANKEL, I couldn't believe what i was witnessing that day. forever in my memory more than any other sports event in history.
Are people really saying Frankel beat nothing? Haha! Here's a little stat for you that I figured out at the end of the 2015 Flat season. The two best horses of 2015 (Golden Horn & American Pharoh - A Derby & Arc winner this side of the Atlantic, and a Triple Crown winner the other side of the pond) combined in their life times won 16 races from 20 starts. They beat 27 individual G1 winners, who between them won 52 G1s. Frankel by himself won 14 races from 14 starts. He beat 25 individual G1 winners, who between them won 62 G1s.
In England he won everything. ..sure here in ireland we have horses that wins derby's and few groups 1.just for fun..but they that don't mean nothing. .it's like seathestars he came against the best in ireland then he went to prove what he could do aboard ...sure o brien have a horse now that can do 48 miles an hour on gallops that's faster than frankel ..donto be fooled at all lad ..leave to Japan and breeders cup .that's when the horse is the best
I worked out Frankels time compared with Secretariats on turf. Hard to get it exactly right due to obvious reasons like firmness of the turf but knowing Englands and the US, Englands would of been a much slower track. Even adding some seconds onto Frankels time his time is better than Secretariats over a mile and a half. Secretariats raced over a Mile and a Quarter on turf in his second to last race in 144 seconds. Frankel raced a mile in 97 seconds on slower ground. Even adding 2 seconds onto Frankels time he still beats secretariat by a second. If you work out how long it would take Frankel to do those extra furlongs. -
From a standing start Frankel covered the 1st furlong in 13.5s, the 2nd in 11.5, 3rd 11.0s 4th 11.0s and 5th in 11.5. he went Gr1 sprinters pace for 5 furlongs, the back to back 11.0 sec furlongs saw him cover 20yds each and every second, almost the size of a cricket pitch every second. The Palace house 5F who was won by Tangerine Trees earlier and whose time over 5f was a second slower than Frankel. Yes his last 3 furlongs were slower but he was running into a headwind and out on his own.
I remember watching this live and thinking, 'oh my fucking Christ'. I have never seen a horse just simply obliterate such top class opposition as he did that day. Watch the way he moves. he was utterly unique and I don't think we will ever see the likes of him again. The best miler without a shadow of a doubt if not the best racehorse of all time!
Best turn of foot I've seen on a horse and I've been a racing fan for years. And he does it all on his own too. What an animal, hope he's enjoying the stud life. I'm sure he's treated like the king he is.
You will never see anything like this in your life again!!! The lung capacity and huge Heart is out of this world!! Such a majesty to watch like poetry in motion if ever I seen it
Ridiculous performance! You could watch this every week and never get bored.. This monster was the real deal.. the perfect horse.. he was just so so consistent in his visual brilliance.. virtually every performance was breathtaking..unlike most 'champions' who have like one or two 'incredible' performances in their highlight reel..
Lee SOG , Absolutely the real deal because Frankel was able to do this in a similar fashion at will and on command against every field he ever faced, save his race in the St James's Palace Stakes when Queally allowed him to come off the bridal way too far from home that day at Ascot.
@Mark. Agreed. Any naysayers (normally Australians going on about sectionals with no bearing to track condition) just need to watch the last 50 running’s of this race and the next 50 to realise this just doesn’t happen
@@rob9999i yeah well we Australians know what we're talking about and here's why czcams.com/video/aMvmAsRmwqo/video.html czcams.com/video/pfRzDsG3a70/video.html Because we value sectionals and times over emotions and just the facts. Frankel was the best in the UK yes,undeniable but not the best in the world, that's fact
I love this video, you can hear how amazing this performance is by the commentators voice 'Frankel he's 15 lengths clear'... a superhorse, to make the running in a guineas is unbelievable...but the way Frankel won it was out of this world...best horse ever...that's a fact.
I was there and was the most amazing race I have ever watched but..........He was never 15 lengths clear!! A stunning performance by the greatest horse I will ever see. People will look back on this and feel blessed to have seen him even more than we do now.
The greatest 8f-10f horse I have seen in well over 30 years. As he developed his career he demolished Canford Cliffs, a horse that had demolished a two time Breeders Cup winner. He sauntered over SNA with effortless ease, a Breeders Cup winner & beat the top class Excelebration countless times by many lengths, a horse that was barely beat a length in the Breeders Cup mile from a bad draw & on unfavourable ground. Frankels form is rock solid & anyone who tries to crab him is truly one sad individual who knows fuck all about racing at any level.
+Paul Orchid Would not say Canford Cliff Demolished Goldikova, she was beaten 1L, but Olivier Pelier put up 2Ib over WGT that day on Goldikova so she lost her mares allowance - 2Ib equate to 1L over a mile, add to that Flash Dance kept crossing Goldikova pushing her wide - not a lot between those 2 horses, but that's not taking anything away from the great Frankel, just goes to show what a monster he was.
Well said Paul. The naysayers are either completely jealous of our U.K. machine or genuinely stupid. Either way I don’t have time for them, no point arguing with idiots. After a while you can’t tell who the idiot is!
Fankel would've beaten Canford Cliffs anyway, but to say he demolished him is unfair. Canford Cliffs went lame 1 1/2f out and went so far left he would've finished in Crawley had the rails and stands not been there. I liked Canford Cliffs, but loved Frankel. If you're gonna be inflammatory, be right
Watching the Frankel races in a rather lacklustre classic /Gr. 1 year in British racing in 2019; the moment when Frankel was properly unleashed unto racing fans is without doubt the 2000 guineas & from then the performances that has become legend ; and yet to be surpassed in any country / hemisphere in both jaw dropping performances or brilliance.
How can anybody who truly loves horse racing hate Frankel, regardless of which horse you support. The people who hit the dislike button should be ashamed of themselves - No logical reason to do that on a horse that as never been beaten and put in some outstanding performances over 3 seasons.
Loved horseracing for 50 years and seen many wonderful and amazing horses flat and NH but this was just way above everything else Nobody could stop it winning or running the way it did that day
I always come back to this race , the moment when Frankel made his name and all became clear... You'll never see a guineas won like this ever again , pause the video at 58 second d and just smile in admiration. What a horse plenty good uns have come after his retirement but none as special as this one !
The best flat race horse performance I have ever seen. I remember watching the race live on television and it was unbelievable how he destroyed the rest of the field. The Guineas are usually closely contested but this stamped Frankel as one of the greats
The best miler I have ever seen and will ever likely to see, he is 15 length clear! Look at his unbeaten Group 1 record. no one would even come close to this amazing superstar.
That win is the best display of sheer speed and free running I have ever seen. It would have been only the greatest of horses that could have kept up with him, if any. Remarkable.
I said to my old dad years ago the very first time i saw frankel run and told him "dad you have just witnessed the greatest horse u will ever see" he laughed at me that day my old man but i got last laugh never see another frankel what a horse ❤
I had the the pleasure of being sat in the restaurant right on the winning line that day (ham hock starter was lovely.) people were so overawed by the dominance of Frankel it was a really strange atmosphere until the race was over. Then we all realised we had just witnessed live something very very special.
Just been sitting with my pissed off Sunday night face on and came across this race, better than any alcohol or narcotics. Best racing performance ever and am a national hunt fan, it knocked off my favourite all time race ever Viking Flagships win at Aintree 1995 with the jockeys missing cap again the same thing happened at Cheltenham in what was my second favourite race. Surely my top 3 can't be beaten
never in the horse racing history a horse like Frankel existed who could perform to the same devastating level each time of asking. He is the greatest of them all, his form was still franked this year by past adversaries who continued to win G1 races and most likely you and me will never see a machine like Frankel ever again. Thats the sad thing. The good thing is that he's at stud and trying to replicate a horse of his talent!
It's between this, the Queen Anne or the Juddmonte for me... probably biased towards the Juddmonte because I was there. But, all his performances were breath-taking. Making horseracing for the masses. Brilliant.
Still my favourite race. Frankel was all about speed and a sprint finish. To run away form them like that is crazy but he did it. One of the best ever commentators to...he's 15 lengths clear!
What a load of bollocks. Bolted my backside. He ran the first five furlongs in 58 seconds into a gale. Was the jockey having his arms being pulled off. No. Sir Henry mentioned the possibility off Frankel making the runnimg. Great performance by a great horse.
An almost unbelievable performance. Wood have loved to see him race our Australian champion Winks. They're the two greatest middle distance horses I've seen in over 50 years following the sport.
@@lee-annhellner9622 Hey :) Winx is one of the best I've seen as well, especially in terms of consistency at the highest level.. but, because of the competion she faces, there's only so far she can go with ratings.. which is why there's dozens of horses here rated higher than her in the last 50 years en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeform
Lee sog I agree on that one but because winx beat some horses that weren't superstars in Britain but still ran well at the top level in Australia relatively consistently I don't feel everyone in Britain gives winx the credit she's due, especially a certain annoying guy on TV. Still think Frankel is the better horse though
@@colind8525 I agree, a lot of people who claim to love racing don't really give her any credit, because they can't see beyond her racing in Australia. But she beat some decent horses like (a young) Highland Reel, a good horse on Humidor and very decent horse in Benbatl. That's great form and indicates a top quality horse. But anyone who knows racing would also recognise her 2016 Cox Plate and 2017 George Ryder as very special performances; and that's all we have to take from it, even though 25 other races where ordinary against ordinary horses (despite the obstacles she often endured). Talk of Frankel is probably what rubs people up the wrong way. There's just no comparison between Winx and Frankel. Ones rated 13lb higher than the other. So even with a weight allowance, 5 lengths he has on her. Maybe a lesser Frankel like the one we saw at Ascot (because he got out slow, plus the ground didn't help) she would get within 2 lengths, but I think she'd have struggled to go past a prime Cirrus Des Aigles. All in all, she's world class, but belongs in the Goldikova, Kingman, Almanzor bracket, and not the likes of Frankel, Dancing Brave and Brigadier Gérard :)
How typical of the late, great sir Henry cecil to give us all the greatest race horse as he retired from his life, my only regret was that my dad wasn't around to see this rare phenomenon in action, when we were kids we had to call him Henry cecil whenever he put his hat on, I think he thought he realy was the great man cos without a shadow of doubt he was his greatest fan, if he was ever late home my mum would say 'I bet Cecil's had a couple of winners' and then he'd come through the door doing his best to stand up shouting 'Henry cecil is God . . Such happy days filled with wonderful memories
I said it before:you know absolutely nothing if you think the horse is out of control, not to mention the fact that you're trying to CRAB a horse by saying it BOLTED, yet won a Group 1 by 7 lengths. You're either drink-addled or trolling. Probably one of those punters that backs horses all his life yet absorbs absolutely jack shit about the game. Your posts defy logic.
4. Above all of these what matters most of all is the impression a horse leaves you before and after the race. Frankel every race was highly awaited with interest, starting from his 3rd race in career and he was always able to exceed the hype that people created before the raced This video we're on is probably the best demonstration of a horse fascinating class which was with 2-3 levels above anything in his time. To judge him we need to go back in time and judge him against the best of the best
I've seen this probably 20 times now and still brings a tear to my eye. A true champion. He just loves to gallop. Best flat racehorse EVER and that's from people who have been around for a lot longer than I have!
Frankel beat 65 horses in his career. 25 of those horses that he beat won 62 Group 1's between them. Hard to compare throughout the ages but I don't think any horse has ever dominated such over genuine Group 1 winner's
Can you say the best ever horse went to America and beat the best went to Australia and beat the best went to the UK and beat the best went to Ireland and beat the best went to Hong Kong and beat the best until one does then you can't call the horse the best ever and Enable only needs to go down under and over to Hong Kong and win a group 1 and that horse can be called the best ever.
Free runners - yeah because they are going to risk a horse that will likely make them tens of millions of pounds in stallion fees to fly over the other other side of th world and compete in shit races. Really?
Hard whipped 4 times in the last furlong, exhausted at the end and beating an average Listed horse. This is the most ever rated performance in racing history. Frankel got alot better, maybe even became the best. But this race is rose tinted. Brigadier Gerard Beating Mill Reef and El Gran Senor beating Chief Singer is a different class.
Hard to Imagine any Miler Beating Him that Day, but there will always be that niggling Feeling that We were denied the Chance to See Him over a mile and a Half, So He cant be Compaired to the Likes of SeaBird, and Nijinsky. Brigadier Gerrard Won the King George over 12 Furlongs, However He was Beaten Fair and Sqiare by Roberto at York imho. I Believe SeaBird, Nijinsky, and Pent celebre were the Top 3 in Europe, and Secretariat the Greatest Middle Distance Horse of all Time
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this never gets old. I have to visit this video once a year to remember. I will never ever forget watching this horse fly past me at Ascot. Breathtaking
Yes lots of those guys behind are stallions at stud too!
I'm a US fan, and I know I'm supposed to be bias in favor of great dirt horses, but the middle half mile of this race is the most ridiculous thing I'm seen in racing. He shouldn't be able to run that course, like that, and still win. Much less by open lengths. 40 years I've been watching racing, and Frankel is the best I've seen.
To be fair though bro,FRANKEL was that good,I think any tactics would have worked,I could have rode him to victory,you could probably put him in a five furlong race and he would have won,his first race was over 7,I think the Frankel team made a huge mistake by not flying him over for the Breeders cup on his retirement season,I watch it every year and my opinion is he would have destroyed them,but hey,we will never ever know now,they just didn’t want to take that risk,him get upset,lose,and watch them good old stud fees take a plunge
The TRUTH❤ Couldnt of put it better myself
15 lengths clear says it all u can't do that in the 2000 gunieas.trained by a legend , horse of a lifetime
He ran it llike a 5f race, Just nuts, all wrong but so right.
TQ just knew what we suspected but didn't fully realise then that he was just a class apart.
How many sprinters could have lived with that?
@Damien Montero won twice over a mile
brings a tear to the eye such a beautiful horse
Was there that day.... amazing stuff
This horse will always be known for been the best horse in english history..I think they should of took him over to America for the breeders cup turf thow the Americans would of loved him too
Sir Henry Cecil what a trainer. Most probably the best trainer for frankel match made in heaven. Queally nerves of steel.
@@TL24619 if Cecil wasnt I'll with cancer Frankel would've gone on to 5 years old and conquered America
@@scouserdan3 true that pal he was a great trainer cecil and will always be remembered for the been the trainer of the best racehorse ever : )
I love coming back to watch this. Never seen such a demolition of top quality horses.
never seen a G1 mile race won in that way
2015 cox plate
The greatest exhibition ever
Simply in or never seen a field of group 1 horse's destroyed like this never
@@evanragen3645 rubbish field apart from one horse
"Frankel got out well"
Biggest understatement ever
True was actually great horses in behind even future stallions
Frankel could have hit the snooze button and still won
The only time the word ‘Destroyed’ should be used to describe a horse race. The tone he has at “15 lengths clear” immediately makes you understand the gravity of this performance. He was one of a kind #FrankelForever
As an aussie I absolutely loved watching this marvel run I am a true lover of all horses but to have had the privilege of watching equine freaks such as frankel, black caviar, winx, altior , sunline , fairy king prawn , beauty generation etc it gives you goosebumps to watch the truly special ones go about there work
Kauto star. Denman . Big Bucks. Synchronised. NH.
DANCING BRAVE AND FRANKEL. FLAT.. best adrenaline kick on the planet with the atmosphere...
@@billymiller4586 thats it mate its the best natural rush i certainly get i love seeing the champions going about there business same as i love watching the best jockeys at work in Australia i absolutely love the western australian jockey William 'the wizard ' Pike regularly rides 250 plus winners a season and hes got a cult following among us eastern seaboarders back pike in the last in perth as he seems to have an uncanny knack of gettin up in the last race and getting punters out of a bad day or making it even better lol
1986 Dancing Brave Arc de Triomphe.
Had the pleasure of seeing him at York last week playing with the rest of the group one field in the Juddmonte. The most awesome display of power I've ever seen...Let's not forget Tom Queally who has an amazing bond with this superstar, and Sir Henry who's brilliant mind has guided him to this level. Unforgettable day, I shed a tear or two. I've seen some greats, I'm lucky enough to be from York and have seen many special races over the years. This racehorse is a different class.
I love this commentary. The shear disbelief of the commentator when he says "he's 15 lengths clear" What a race, what a horse. Sad I wasn't into horse racing at the time Frankel was around
The cruising speed at the beginning is something to behold .
That was it. His natural crusing speed was like a 6 furlong horse.
High idle speed and a devastating turn of foot, incredible!
The most amazing moment ever in racing , the formidable FRANKEL, I couldn't believe what i was witnessing that day. forever in my memory more than any other sports event in history.
Are people really saying Frankel beat nothing? Haha! Here's a little stat for you that I figured out at the end of the 2015 Flat season.
The two best horses of 2015 (Golden Horn & American Pharoh - A Derby & Arc winner this side of the Atlantic, and a Triple Crown winner the other side of the pond) combined in their life times won 16 races from 20 starts. They beat 27 individual G1 winners, who between them won 52 G1s.
Frankel by himself won 14 races from 14 starts. He beat 25 individual G1 winners, who between them won 62 G1s.
sense he beat grp 1 winners w i th ease.....
In England he won everything. ..sure here in ireland we have horses that wins derby's and few groups 1.just for fun..but they that don't mean nothing. .it's like seathestars he came against the best in ireland then he went to prove what he could do aboard ...sure o brien have a horse now that can do 48 miles an hour on gallops that's faster than frankel ..donto be fooled at all lad ..leave to Japan and breeders cup .that's when the horse is the best
I worked out Frankels time compared with Secretariats on turf. Hard to get it exactly right due to obvious reasons like firmness of the turf but knowing Englands and the US, Englands would of been a much slower track. Even adding some seconds onto Frankels time his time is better than Secretariats over a mile and a half. Secretariats raced over a Mile and a Quarter on turf in his second to last race in 144 seconds. Frankel raced a mile in 97 seconds on slower ground. Even adding 2 seconds onto Frankels time he still beats secretariat by a second. If you work out how long it would take Frankel to do those extra furlongs. -
From a standing start Frankel covered the 1st furlong in 13.5s, the 2nd in 11.5, 3rd 11.0s 4th 11.0s and 5th in 11.5. he went Gr1 sprinters pace for 5 furlongs, the back to back 11.0 sec furlongs saw him cover 20yds each and every second, almost the size of a cricket pitch every second. The Palace house 5F who was won by Tangerine Trees earlier and whose time over 5f was a second slower than Frankel. Yes his last 3 furlongs were slower but he was running into a headwind and out on his own.
BigTron
Wow nice stats simply the best
I remember watching this live and thinking, 'oh my fucking Christ'. I have never seen a horse just simply obliterate such top class opposition as he did that day. Watch the way he moves. he was utterly unique and I don't think we will ever see the likes of him again. The best miler without a shadow of a doubt if not the best racehorse of all time!
Best turn of foot I've seen on a horse and I've been a racing fan for years. And he does it all on his own too. What an animal, hope he's enjoying the stud life. I'm sure he's treated like the king he is.
@@OfficialMuffiin Absolutely!
@Damien Montero It was sensational.
Goldikova
Yeah, I turned to somebody and said if he can keep this up he's something else.
You will never see anything like this in your life again!!! The lung capacity and huge Heart is out of this world!! Such a majesty to watch like poetry in motion if ever I seen it
Ridiculous performance! You could watch this every week and never get bored.. This monster was the real deal.. the perfect horse.. he was just so so consistent in his visual brilliance.. virtually every performance was breathtaking..unlike most 'champions' who have like one or two 'incredible' performances in their highlight reel..
Lee SOG , Absolutely the real deal because Frankel was able to do this in a similar fashion at will and on command against every field he ever faced, save his race in the St James's Palace Stakes when Queally allowed him to come off the bridal way too far from home that day at Ascot.
Correct.spot on jve seen frankel 5 times live..the bedt ive seen in44 years
@@keithwilliams2077 Any relation to Kenneth Williams ? "OOH MATRON !!"
I don’t think you will see another horse make all in a 2000 Guineas and win like that,it never ceases to amaze me every time I watch it 💪👊
@Mark. Agreed. Any naysayers (normally Australians going on about sectionals with no bearing to track condition) just need to watch the last 50 running’s of this race and the next 50 to realise this just doesn’t happen
@@rob9999i yeah well we Australians know what we're talking about and here's why
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Because we value sectionals and times over emotions and just the facts. Frankel was the best in the UK yes,undeniable but not the best in the world, that's fact
An absolute privilege to see this wonderful horse.
Outrageous!! Still takes my breath away after all these years❤
I love this video, you can hear how amazing this performance is by the commentators voice 'Frankel he's 15 lengths clear'... a superhorse, to make the running in a guineas is unbelievable...but the way Frankel won it was out of this world...best horse ever...that's a fact.
The greatest single performance by a horse ive ever seen.
This gets better every time I see it
Mother nature's stars were truly aligned when the mighty Frankle was born.
Poetry in motion.
What kind of breed is it Frankel?i have googled but nothing found
@@rfffff1080 British Thoroughbread
STS and Frankel. we were lucky to have seen two greats so close together in years, and hard to imagine seeing another horse do better. Wonderful.
Don't think i've ever seen a horse gain as much in the final few furlongs as Frankel. Against other top horses. Brilliant.
frankel thought it was just a gallop lol
Greatest single performance by any horse I ever seen.
He's destroyed them from half way? He destroyed them from them start
That is arguably the greatest jaw dropping performance in the history of racing
Arazi, 91' Breeders Cup Juvenile, is another jaw dropping moment
@@carnorval absolutely was
I get goosebumps every time!!
I was there and was the most amazing race I have ever watched but..........He was never 15 lengths clear!! A stunning performance by the greatest horse I will ever see. People will look back on this and feel blessed to have seen him even more than we do now.
He was 15
Frankel was actually 16 lengths clear its been photographed.and whoever said he wasnt 15 lengths i hear specsavers have sent u invitations
What a fantastic 2000 guineas. The horse was out of this world but the commentary was also top class
Wow, wow and thrice wow!! I was fortunate to see Frankel at York in 2012 and it truly was a goosebumps moment.
The greatest 8f-10f horse I have seen in well over 30 years. As he developed his career he demolished Canford Cliffs, a horse that had demolished a two time Breeders Cup winner. He sauntered over SNA with effortless ease, a Breeders Cup winner & beat the top class Excelebration countless times by many lengths, a horse that was barely beat a length in the Breeders Cup mile from a bad draw & on unfavourable ground.
Frankels form is rock solid & anyone who tries to crab him is truly one sad individual who knows fuck all about racing at any level.
+Paul Orchid Would not say Canford Cliff Demolished Goldikova, she was beaten 1L, but Olivier Pelier put up 2Ib over WGT that day on Goldikova so she lost her mares allowance - 2Ib equate to 1L over a mile, add to that Flash Dance kept crossing Goldikova pushing her wide - not a lot between those 2 horses, but that's not taking anything away from the great Frankel, just goes to show what a monster he was.
Well said Paul. The naysayers are either completely jealous of our U.K. machine or genuinely stupid. Either way I don’t have time for them, no point arguing with idiots. After a while you can’t tell who the idiot is!
Fankel would've beaten Canford Cliffs anyway, but to say he demolished him is unfair.
Canford Cliffs went lame 1 1/2f out and went so far left he would've finished in Crawley had the rails and stands not been there.
I liked Canford Cliffs, but loved Frankel.
If you're gonna be inflammatory, be right
One of the greatest performances ever on
a race course
I'm not big into racing but I made a special point of watching every race of his. He was bigger than racing. He transcended the sport.
astonishing. i still watch it and don't believe my eyes
But at the bushes Frankel is 15lengths clear!!
That sums it up quite nicely.
MrSmid888 but at the bush is Frankel, he's 15 lengths clear..!! 🤔😏
When he says that it perfectly reflects what I think at that point of the race every time haha “he’s FIFTEEN. Lengths clear!”
15 lengths clear?? What race was he watching??
@@wawawutosnftbs8922 agreed Frankel was under 10 lengths clear at the bushes
Watching the Frankel races in a rather lacklustre classic /Gr. 1 year in British racing in 2019; the moment when Frankel was properly unleashed unto racing fans is without doubt the 2000 guineas & from then the performances that has become legend ; and yet to be surpassed in any country / hemisphere in both jaw dropping performances or brilliance.
Gets better every time you watch it
Frankel was an absolute beast, definitely his finest moment
one of the great performances AND commentaries
How can anybody who truly loves horse racing hate Frankel, regardless of which horse you support. The people who hit the dislike button should be ashamed of themselves - No logical reason to do that on a horse that as never been beaten and put in some outstanding performances over 3 seasons.
Some people just hit the dislike for no reason. Anybody who watches horses knows this is a masterpiece.
Maybe they backed Dubawi Gold
Ally Wildgoose
Not just Dubawi Gold, but every horse who ever ran against him.
could not agree more
It’s just some weird nationalistic thing. As if horses have a passport.
The most devastating performance ever seen in a Classic.
Best flat horse I’ve seen in my lifetime.truly remarkable racehorse and a pleasure to watch.
The most astonishing race ever. Simply astounding.
My favourite racehorse.
Loved horseracing for 50 years and seen many wonderful and amazing horses flat and NH but this was just way above everything else Nobody could stop it winning or running the way it did that day
Him, it's not an it. An amazing living creature, not a number you put your money on.
MegaVector2011 fair comment
MegaVector2011 well said - it really surprises me how many people refer to horses as "it" rather than "he/she"
I always come back to this race , the moment when Frankel made his name and all became clear... You'll never see a guineas won like this ever again , pause the video at 58 second d and just smile in admiration. What a horse plenty good uns have come after his retirement but none as special as this one !
10 years ago today,What a Horse!
The best flat race horse performance I have ever seen. I remember watching the race live on television and it was unbelievable how he destroyed the rest of the field. The Guineas are usually closely contested but this stamped Frankel as one of the greats
A privilege to have seen him run .
Probably the most impressive sporting performance I've ever seen.
Il never forget this, ever.
As a speed merchant myself, this horse baffles me beyond words, far more than any human or machine
The best miler I have ever seen and will ever likely to see, he is 15 length clear! Look at his unbeaten Group 1 record. no one would even come close to this amazing superstar.
That win is the best display of sheer speed and free running I have ever seen. It would have been only the greatest of horses that could have kept up with him, if any. Remarkable.
What a fantastic job the great sir henry done with frankle an amazing trainer and an amazing animal true legends of the turf
I said to my old dad years ago the very first time i saw frankel run and told him "dad you have just witnessed the greatest horse u will ever see" he laughed at me that day my old man but i got last laugh never see another frankel what a horse ❤
To love horseracing AND be alive to see Frankel's career... What a result!
That was somethin’ really special🐴🔥
I had the the pleasure of being sat in the restaurant right on the winning line that day (ham hock starter was lovely.) people were so overawed by the dominance of Frankel it was a really strange atmosphere until the race was over. Then we all realised we had just witnessed live something very very special.
Just been sitting with my pissed off Sunday night face on and came across this race, better than any alcohol or narcotics. Best racing performance ever and am a national hunt fan, it knocked off my favourite all time race ever Viking Flagships win at Aintree 1995 with the jockeys missing cap again the same thing happened at Cheltenham in what was my second favourite race. Surely my top 3 can't be beaten
Born On This Day - 11th February 2008
Happy 9th Birthday, to one of the greatest flat horses ever,
FRANKEL
Feels like yesterday..still can't believe he stayed on either
The finest horse I've ever seen a freak of nature in the best way possible! What an Animal and for Henry Cecil to have trained him perfect!
Never tire of seeing this horse him and the gr8 sir henry cecil were an extraordinary partnership jus glad igot to see it ....
Undeniably THE Greatest and trained by THE Greatest
MrParisienWalkways
I agree totally
Well said miss Henry
I was at that meeting. Just watched in awe
Awesome performance!🐎
Simply the best ever
never in the horse racing history a horse like Frankel existed who could perform to the same devastating level each time of asking.
He is the greatest of them all, his form was still franked this year by past adversaries who continued to win G1 races and most likely you and me will never see a machine like Frankel ever again. Thats the sad thing. The good thing is that he's at stud and trying to replicate a horse of his talent!
It's a crying shame that this is the commentary we have to suffer eternally for such a glorious race
Still watching this in 2019
This is my once a week viewing
amazing to watch this horse at work
It's between this, the Queen Anne or the Juddmonte for me... probably biased towards the Juddmonte because I was there. But, all his performances were breath-taking. Making horseracing for the masses. Brilliant.
Juddmonte was at York, which is probably the best racecourse.. as in the (truest test of speed in the world).
Still my favourite race. Frankel was all about speed and a sprint finish. To run away form them like that is crazy but he did it. One of the best ever commentators to...he's 15 lengths clear!
Pure class and talent
What a load of bollocks. Bolted my backside. He ran the first five furlongs in 58 seconds into a gale. Was the jockey having his arms being pulled off. No. Sir Henry mentioned the possibility off Frankel making the runnimg. Great performance by a great horse.
An almost unbelievable performance. Wood have loved to see him race our Australian champion Winks. They're the two greatest middle distance horses I've seen in over 50 years following the sport.
@@lee-annhellner9622 Hey :) Winx is one of the best I've seen as well, especially in terms of consistency at the highest level.. but, because of the competion she faces, there's only so far she can go with ratings.. which is why there's dozens of horses here rated higher than her in the last 50 years en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeform
Lee sog I agree on that one but because winx beat some horses that weren't superstars in Britain but still ran well at the top level in Australia relatively consistently I don't feel everyone in Britain gives winx the credit she's due, especially a certain annoying guy on TV. Still think Frankel is the better horse though
@@colind8525 I agree, a lot of people who claim to love racing don't really give her any credit, because they can't see beyond her racing in Australia. But she beat some decent horses like (a young) Highland Reel, a good horse on Humidor and very decent horse in Benbatl. That's great form and indicates a top quality horse. But anyone who knows racing would also recognise her 2016 Cox Plate and 2017 George Ryder as very special performances; and that's all we have to take from it, even though 25 other races where ordinary against ordinary horses (despite the obstacles she often endured).
Talk of Frankel is probably what rubs people up the wrong way. There's just no comparison between Winx and Frankel. Ones rated 13lb higher than the other. So even with a weight allowance, 5 lengths he has on her. Maybe a lesser Frankel like the one we saw at Ascot (because he got out slow, plus the ground didn't help) she would get within 2 lengths, but I think she'd have struggled to go past a prime Cirrus Des Aigles.
All in all, she's world class, but belongs in the Goldikova, Kingman, Almanzor bracket, and not the likes of Frankel, Dancing Brave and Brigadier Gérard :)
His Queen Anne performance when he beat about 7 GP1 winners 11 lengths is the greatest performance ever seen on a racecourse.
Very true
How typical of the late, great sir Henry cecil to give us all the greatest race horse as he retired from his life, my only regret was that my dad wasn't around to see this rare phenomenon in action, when we were kids we had to call him Henry cecil whenever he put his hat on, I think he thought he realy was the great man cos without a shadow of doubt he was his greatest fan, if he was ever late home my mum would say 'I bet Cecil's had a couple of winners' and then he'd come through the door doing his best to stand up shouting 'Henry cecil is God . . Such happy days filled with wonderful memories
THANK YOU john e, you obviously know your racing.
I said it before:you know absolutely nothing if you think the horse is out of control, not to mention the fact that you're trying to CRAB a horse by saying it BOLTED, yet won a Group 1 by 7 lengths. You're either drink-addled or trolling. Probably one of those punters that backs horses all his life yet absorbs absolutely jack shit about the game. Your posts defy logic.
4. Above all of these what matters most of all is the impression a horse leaves you before and after the race. Frankel every race was highly awaited with interest, starting from his 3rd race in career and he was always able to exceed the hype that people created before the raced This video we're on is probably the best demonstration of a horse fascinating class which was with 2-3 levels above anything in his time. To judge him we need to go back in time and judge him against the best of the best
Holy moley! To quote Penny Chenery, Frankel "...just felt like running."
an absolute machine
That is unbelievable you will never see anything like that again!
Man this horse gives me goosebumps
Couldn't agree more my friend!!!!
glad that ray ray know his racing oh what a knowledge he has,an all time great bless him
I went to this race xxxx outstanding horse what a racing class
Never seen a race like that before you will never see another like him
I've seen this probably 20 times now and still brings a tear to my eye. A true champion. He just loves to gallop. Best flat racehorse EVER and that's from people who have been around for a lot longer than I have!
Speechless !!!!!!
Must of watched this about 100 times :)
Best of all time
Frankel beat 65 horses in his career. 25 of those horses that he beat won 62 Group 1's between them. Hard to compare throughout the ages but I don't think any horse has ever dominated such over genuine Group 1 winner's
Can you say the best ever horse went to America and beat the best went to Australia and beat the best went to the UK and beat the best went to Ireland and beat the best went to Hong Kong and beat the best until one does then you can't call the horse the best ever and Enable only needs to go down under and over to Hong Kong and win a group 1 and that horse can be called the best ever.
My mum said that on radio five In 2013
Free runners - yeah because they are going to risk a horse that will likely make them tens of millions of pounds in stallion fees to fly over the other other side of th world and compete in shit races. Really?
Hard whipped 4 times in the last furlong, exhausted at the end and beating an average Listed horse. This is the most ever rated performance in racing history. Frankel got alot better, maybe even became the best. But this race is rose tinted. Brigadier Gerard Beating Mill Reef and El Gran Senor beating Chief Singer is a different class.
The greatest performance I've ever seen from a racehorse....
The greatest ❤
Why I shed a tear when I watch this I don’t know.
Hard to Imagine any Miler Beating Him that Day, but there will always be that niggling Feeling that We were denied the Chance to See Him over a mile and a Half, So He cant be Compaired to the Likes of SeaBird, and Nijinsky. Brigadier Gerrard Won the King George over 12 Furlongs, However He was Beaten Fair and Sqiare by Roberto at York imho. I Believe SeaBird, Nijinsky, and Pent celebre were the Top 3 in Europe, and Secretariat the Greatest Middle Distance Horse of all Time