Forget television's old equine hero, 'Champion, The Wonder Horse', anyone who saw the 2,000 Guineas run at Newmarket this afternoon cannot fail to have been impressed by the astonishing performance of the winner, Frankel.
This horse, admittedly a hot favourite, simply ran away from the rest of the field from the start. He even left his own pacemaker trailing in his wake as he built a huge lead by the halfway stage, and clung on to win by some 6 lengths. He's already a strong favourite for the Derby, though whether he can win that longer race in a similar way is surely debatable; one imagines that his jockey will have to hold him back if he's not to simply exhaust himself long before the finishing post.
Roll on June 4th when all may be revealed.
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