Note: b. He was the leading trainer at Santa Anita five times and at the Oak Tree at Santa Anita meet six times, and topped the trainers’ list four times at Del Mar, where he won the $1-million Pacific Classic six times, including four consecutive years, 1992-95. He could get pretty irritated with owners when they forced his hand. And Queally was far from being a one-horse man, as he rode the winners of 22 Group Ones from 2009 to 2012, Frankel accounting for less than half of that total. Frankel began his two-year-old career on 13 August in a one-mile maiden race at Newmarket on soft ground. In October he won the Champion Stakes at Ascot, again over a mile and a quarter, following which his retirement from racing was announced. Queally had ridden a winner for trainer David Elsworth when in England for a few weeks in January 2003 and his return to the UK (after a stint as a work rider both in the United States and New Zealand) was an instant success as, attached to the yard of legendary gambler and trainer Barney Curley, he took the apprentice title in his first full season in the UK in 2004 with 59 winners (66 in the calendar year). Starting at odds of 1/20 against only three rivals, he won by six lengths from Farhh. Leave before you lose it. Frankel won the Eclipse Award as outstanding trainer in 1993, 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003. Further Group 1 victories for Queally and Cecil followed (Timepiece in the Falmouth Stakes and the evergreen Midday winning a third Nassau at Goodwood); but in the aftermath of Frankel’s easy win in the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (British Champion Mile), in which the horse lived up to his billing as the star attraction of the inaugural QIPCO British Champions Day, Queally was in no doubt about what had made his year, saying, "This is the people´s horse now. [52] Cunco had the distinction of also being Frankel's first ever foal,[53] born in Ireland at the Coolmore Stud and was out of Chrysanthemum who was the first mare scanned in foal to Frankel. I can't go back to the days of Tudor Minstrel and match races, but he's the best in my lifetime. ", Official Frankel website, by Juddmonte Farms, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frankel_(horse)&oldid=982721262, CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown, Articles with dead external links from October 2020, Articles with dead external links from October 2017, Articles with permanently dead external links, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 9 October 2020, at 22:25.