Frankel puts down Palace marker with impressive gallop

FRANKEL again impressed Newmarket work-watchers yesterday morning and is set to go off at long odds-on in next week’s St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Henry Cecil took his unbeaten colt to the Watered Gallop on Racecourse Side to exercise with his usual lead horse, Bullet Train.

Reports of Frankel’s outrageous performances at home are nothing new but he looked in typically powerful shape under Shane Fetherstonhaugh, coming a couple of lengths clear of Bullet Train with his regular work-rider’s hands full.