Lady Frankel

Lady Frankel should have finished closer than she did in the Group 1 Prix Jean Romanet. Held up in behind early on off a sedate pace, she travelled well into the home straight, but she was hampered when she went for a run on the run to the 2f marker, she was buffeted about a little, and she was hampered again by Wilamina on the rail shortly thereafter. Then Pierre-Charles Boudot had to wait for a few strides before he could get a run up on the inside of I’m So Fancy. It is difficult to know how she would have fared with a clearer run, but she finished off her race well, probably with plenty of energy left. She would almost certainly have finished third with a clear run, and she would have been a lot closer to Nonza and Urban Fox than she was.

Andre Fabre’s filly won a Group 3 race last year as a three-year-old, her first season to race, and she finished a close-up third behind Rhododendron and Hydrangea and in front of Wuheida in the Group 1 Prix de l’Opera on her final run of last season, when she was sent off a 40/1 shot. This was just her second run this term, so there is a good chance that she will progress for it. She stays this 10f trip and she goes well on soft ground, so she will remain of interest as the ground softens.

Deauville, 19^th August 2018