Pray for Frankel

RichieLawlor

RP twitter feed saying he has suffered a Possible season and career ending injury

TheMilkyPirate

RichieLawlor wrote: »

RP twitter feed saying he has suffered a Possible season and career ending injury

Speaking to the Racing Post, Lord Grimthorpe, racing manager to owner Khalid Abdullah, said: "Frankel has been scanned and no damage was shown, but we will have him scanned again next week and we will know more then.

I can't predict what will happen. If something comes up, it comes up, but we are still hopeful he will be fine. We'll know more in a week's time."

That's from their main website, Doesn't sound career threatening, Yesterday it was only a setback.

ETA link: http://www.racingpost.com/news/horse-racing/

What's their twitter feed saying?

convert

Can you provide a link to that, please, baraca? Thanks.

TheMilkyPirate

convert wrote: »

Can you provide a link to that, please, baraca? Thanks.

No problem convert,

http://www.racingpost.com/news/horse-racing/

convert

Thanks... I can't access the 'good' sites at work

hucklebuck

Nothing confirmed:

http://www.racingpost.com/news/horse-racing/teddy-grimthorpe-frankel-team-forced-to-deny-retirement-rumours/1015767/top/

LOL, Grimthorpe looks like Ronnie Corbett

d-gal

Its a pity he will miss the JLT Lockinge Stakes.

A potential line up of Frankel vs

Nahrain
Worthadd
Strong Suit
Excelebration
So you think
Cityscape

Absolutely mouth watering

Da Shins Kelly

Hope everything is well with him, and that if he does come back, he'll be in good form.

RichieLawlor

d-gal wrote: »

Its a pity he will miss the JLT Lockinge Stakes.

A potential line up of Frankel vs

Nahrain
Worthadd
Strong Suit
Excelebration
So you think
Cityscape

Absolutely mouth watering

Mouth watering it is not, a collection of hounds is what you listed there. Not one of those are as good a miler as Canford Cliffs.

myfeelings

Agree with Richie it is not mouth watering but i do think that Excelebration would go very very close with Canford Cliffs. Serious potential as a stallion Excelebration if he's handled well for next year

d-gal

RichieLawlor wrote: »

Mouth watering it is not, a collection of hounds is what you listed there. Not one of those are as good a miler as Canford Cliffs.

Bit of an over statement. I reckon So u Think could still come good over here. Excelebration is no slouch and wait until you see what Worthadd is capable of (2nd to Canford last year)

RichieLawlor

d-gal wrote: »

Bit of an over statement. I reckon So u Think could still come good over here. Excelebration is no slouch and wait until you see what Worthadd is capable of (2nd to Canford last year)

You do remember what Frankel did to Excelebration and Canford Cliffs last year dont you.

d-gal

RichieLawlor wrote: »

d-gal wrote: »

Bit of an over statement. I reckon So u Think could still come good over here. Excelebration is no slouch and wait until you see what Worthadd is capable of (2nd to Canford last year)

You do remember what Frankel did to Excelebration and Canford Cliffs last year dont you.

Ya and this year is a completely different year. Plenty of superstars are overturned and this race would have been Frankel's biggest test to date.
The lockinge had the best capable line up for frankel against bigger and older horses

andyman

Feck it, bring back Sea the Stars and Mick Kinnane!

RichieLawlor

d-gal wrote: »

Ya and this year is a completely different year. Plenty of superstars are overturned and this race would have been Frankel's biggest test to date.
The lockinge had the best capable line up for frankel against bigger and older horses

No, Canford Cliffs was a year older than Frankel and far better than that lot you mention.

Frankel will chew them up and spit them out

hucklebuck

RichieLawlor wrote: »

You do remember what Frankel did to Excelebration and Canford Cliffs last year dont you.

Was Canford not retired after that race? If I remember correctly he was hanging badly to the left inside the final furlong. Frankel had him covered alright.

UrbanSea

Frankel absolutely destroyed Canford Cliffs.

I do think that he(CC) is better than Excelebration though, but Excelebration makes more appeal as a stallion. He'll need to win a few group 1's this year if Coolmore will be charging up on 20k for him, if not he'll only be around 10k

tryfix

Good news, Frankel's injury doesn't seem to be too bad, he's back on track for the Lockinge next month.

RACING received the news it had been longing to hear on Wednesday when Frankel’s connections revealed that the sport’s world champion will be able to continue his career with next month's Jlt Lockinge Stakes once again an option.

http://www.racingpost.com/news/horse-racing/teddy-grimthopre-frankel-gets-green-light-to-continue-racing/1017370/top/

Slattsy

In your face Claire Balding !!!!

thebison

Excellent

skeleton_boy

Great news