A massive loss to horse racing
RIP
The owner of Frankel.
Before you ask, Frankel is perhaps the greatest horse of them all.
[QUOTE=village;5641969]I think Kauto Star,Golden Miller and Arkle were all better.
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None can hold a candle to this one though..
Seattle Slew and Secretariat. There's two names from USA - how do they figure in the ratings?
I'm not a racist, but I prefer steeplechase to flat.
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
It's impossible to compare US vs UK vs rest of the world as all different conditions. eras etc. You would also have to include Citation (US) and Phar Lap (AUS) and then how far back do you go? Ormonde?
Certainly Frankel is the most impressive horse I've seen but there were many others who on their day would be very hard to beat.
Montjeu and see the stars. 2 of my favourites over the last 20 years
It's impossible to say who was. Frankel has the highest Timeform rating - again, this means nothing in real world terms but Timeform consider him to be the best (after reducing Dancing Brave's rating of course)
In America you'll get one group saying that Secretariat was the best ever and another group saying Man O War was - again, impossible to tell.
Over 1m to 1 1/4 miles Frankel beat the best horses put in front of him at the time. He was never ever stretched and we'll never know how good he really was as he was never raced over a mile and a half. That's the argument most people have - that he didn't race over this distance and that he didn't race overseas. No one can say he didn't face stiff competition as you only have to add up all the groups 1s the horses he beat had won.
Yes impossible, all pointless.
I know shag-all about horse racing, and genuinely didn't know which of the three possibilities that the OP might have been alluding to - was correct.
I think I must have got "Secretariat" and "Seattle Slew" from an American Readers Digest Almanac or Guinness Book of Records decades ago, and the names stuck.
Shergar made the best burgers.
very much a huge loss to racing; one of the main supporters of the sport and funders of British Racing
saw Frankel several times and at Newbury, where he won by half the track beating several Group 1 winners as if they'd given him a 2 furlong head start.
A very good friend who works in racing has just made a documentary on Enable, the Prince's filly who has dominated for his colours since Frankel went to stud. Almost feel a bit sorry for her having to follow Frankel as she probably only got the full recognition later on.