Cecil happy with Frankel ‘in every way’

HENRY Cecil insists he could not be happier with Frankel as his highly-anticipated clash with Canford Cliffs looms ever closer.

Cecil happy with Frankel ‘in every way’

The unbeaten colt had onlookers rubbing their eyes in disbelief when he produced a performance of raw power from the front in the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket in May, but was not quite so spectacular in the St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot.

That said, the three-year-old remains unbeaten and is now set to take on his elders for the first time in Wednesday’s Qipco Sussex Stakes, with the opposition headed up by Richard Hannon’s brilliant Queen Anne hero Canford Cliffs.

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