Posts tagged Henry Cecil
Price is right for Richard Hannon
Jan 5th
Horseracing should always be primarily about the horses but the 2010 Flat turf season was a reminder that there is no substitute for experience from the human element of the equation. Richard Hannon, Sir Michael Stoute and Henry Cecil – combined years with a trainer’s licence 119 – all took the plaudits in different ways. [...]
Henry Cecil hopes Frankel is up to standard
Dec 21st
Five years ago Henry Cecil hit rock bottom. He did so with a thump but not a whimper. Ten trainers’ championships were becoming a distant memory and he ended that season with just 12, mainly nondescript, winners. Last season he won 11 Group or Listed races in Britain alone to finish fifth in the trainers’ [...]
Khalid Abdullah’s Breeders’ Cup workforce looks good
Oct 27th
Records are there to be broken because the pursuit of excellence is one of the fundamentals of sport itself. But rarely can such a quest have started from such small beginnings. It is over 30 years since the green silks with the pink sash and cap that have become a constant theme of the great [...]
Richard’s Kid out of Breeders’ Cup Classic
Oct 20th
At a time when just about everyone else is trying to find a horse good enough to take to Churchill Downs next month for the Breeders’ Cup, one man has decided to go the other way. In fact all the way to Dubai. Sheikh Rashid bin Mohammed al-Maktoum, owner of Richard’s Kid, has elected not [...]
Frankel wins Dewhurst Stakes
Oct 17th
Did it settle all the arguments? Certainly, for the present at least. The Group One Dubai Dewhurst Stakes was billed as many things, although “the greatest two-year-old race ever?” – as it was described on the front page of the Racing Post – may have owed more to hype than historical perspective. But at least [...]
Twice Over wins Champion Stakes
Oct 17th
After 133 years the Group One Emirates Airline Champion Stakes left its final imprint on the turf at Newmarket, before it is transferred to Ascot for next season. And it was given a send-off worthy of the occasion. Henry Cecil’s Twice Over was back to defend his crown and two furlongs out Tom Queally ranged [...]
Twelve left in Dewhurst Stakes
Oct 11th
British-trained colts dominate European racing in the juvenile division, a fact which will be underlined at the Champions Day fixture at Newmarket on Saturday. But France will try to offer a robust reply by sending a strong force for the other Group One race on the card. To read the full blog: http://blogs.bettor.com/Frankel-heads-12-in-Dewhurst-Stakes-a33174
Dream Ahead for Dewhurst Stakes
Oct 9th
The Dubai Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket was already looking to be one of the races of the season but it may now be a vintage renewal. Henry Cecil had already committed Frankel, his unbeaten colt who won the Royal Lodge at Ascot by 10 lengths, and Godolphin will make a supplementary entry for their star [...]
BHA handicapper impressed by Frankel
Sep 28th
The jockey was impressed, the trainer reckoned he was the best two-year-old he had trained in years and now Frankel has received the official seal of approval. When Frankel won the Group Two Royal Lodge Stakes at Ascot on Saturday, by 10 lengths, Henry Cecil went on record as saying that he was the best [...]
Tom Queally rates Frankel
Sep 27th
Tom Queally was still breathless after Warlu Way won the 10-furlong handicap at Ffos Las. Having played the waiting game until the final furlong he had then had to ask for maximum effort, both from John Dunlop’s three-year-old – who may not have been entirely forthcoming – and himself. “He travelled very well and I [...]
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