Frankel

But he did stay on well, you know, and that form that he showed previously in beating Pride of Arras at York is obviously working out well.

I'd be loathe to, I'd be loathe to kind of discount this arse or to think that it was a fluke because, you know, Constitution River still has, what is it defined, like three, three and three quarter lengths nearly to find that's quite a lot to find against the horses by Frankel it was only three and it was improving and another aspect of the race JD is the riders Pierre Charles Boudot and Hawk Mountain Colin Keane riding item which I think is a big help as well because he knows the track so well Kieran Schumacher riding Al McCann is going to be a big one for him you know you have to feel for connections the last day Oisín Murphy again on a boy named Susie and Ryan Moore on Constitution River so this is why I love that race the best pretty much the best riders in Europe riding in a race that's jockeyship is going to be really important it could be the difference between losing and winning

So Al McCann, look, he's pretty straightforward.

He won the Group 1 Tattersall's Gold Cup over the distance at the Curragh earlier this year before he'm pipped by Isham, as we know, in that Juddmont race.

The visit of Brian National Stakes is at four o'clock on Sunday at the Curragh 7 for a long yielding ground eight runners.

Ryan Moore will ride Giant Sequoia.

So being touted as a Derby horse for 2027 out of Frankel.

Improved again to win a group two over the course and distance last time out.

He had 17 sold for 13.65 million.

Frankel had the best average.

But the buying bench in general was pretty deep.

You had the Japanese buying Saiyonis.

You had Peter Branch with White Birch.

Amo Racing's Kidrution beat Mike Repole to a Frankel filly.

And it was a very much an international feel, as it always is.

Slightly different to what we get at Doncaster, which was a more of a, uh, a playground for the trainers at a lower level price-wise.

But we think they're two very good fillies.

And then for the Colts, the two-year-olds in the national stakes, Giant Sequoia out of Frankel.

And then you have the other one, Hafner, too.

Yeah, Giant

But there's a lot of stars that have to align.

I went back years ago when Frankel and Black Caviar were racing and there was talk of them wanting to do something there.

But of course, Frankel was a bit of a teddy bear and he didn't want to leave his own dunghill and everything had to be one way traffic for us to go to the other side of the world.

where the protected European species don't leave home.

You're a very balanced man, Peter.

Yeah, he, he was beaten on his debut, but then he, um, never was beaten again.

And, um, I'm not sure, I'm not sure I ever actually backed Sea The Stars, and I distinctly remember, and this is like watching Frankel, um, winning the Juddmonte International in York.

Like, racing is, will always be a little bit of a, a complex quandary in my head because whether you like it or not, a lot of it is down to what money you have on the race, what bet it is.

Yeah.

And I remember both in Sea The Stars' Arc win and in Frankel's win in, in the Juddmonte International, I was seeing two of the, in, in Frankel's case, probably the greatest racehor- racehorse performance I've ever seen in the flesh.

Actually, Definitely.

But I lost money on the race.