Racegoers saw a monster on Newmarket Heath in the 2000 Guineas on April 30th, 2011, as Henry Cecil’s Frankel routed the cream of England’s three year olds in a performance that had the crowd applauding two furlongs from the winning-post.

Awesome is an over-used expression but even Sea the Stars in 2009 never won like this.

One horse did, but he had his brilliant career cut short by criminals while in his prime. I refer to the great champion Shergar whose experience I have put into words in ‘Last Moments’, a book of poems in which he shares the stage with other deceased luminaries including Marilyn Monroe, Lord Nelson, Damon Runyon and John Lennon.

We hope that Frankel proves to be a star of comparable proportions to Shergar.

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