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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt'>Frankel head and shoulders above the rest as the decade’s best<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/6bf0fda8afa0439eaaf5353703666b52"><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=650 height=365 style='width:6.7708in;height:3.802in' id="Picture_x0020_5" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D5BF29.39F353B0" alt="Damian Lane wins the Cox Plate on Lys Gracieux at Moonee Valley in October. Picture: Getty Images"></span></a>Damian Lane wins the Cox Plate on Lys Gracieux at Moonee Valley in October. Picture: Getty Images<o:p></o:p></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt'><a href="https://www.theaustralian.com.au/author/Tony+Arrold">Tony Arrold</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:36.0pt'>Turf Writer<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:36.0pt'><img border=0 width=1 height=1 style='width:.0104in;height:.0104in' id="Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:image002.png@01D5BF29.39F353B0"><o:p></o:p></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'>8:00PM December 29, 2019<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><a href="https://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/horse-racing/frankel-head-and-shoulders-above-the-rest-as-the-decades-best/news-story/1d713be03cf90a597f460ae9970a1987#coral">4 <i>Comments</i></a><o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>In the global race for honours as horse of the decade, there was Frankel and then the rest.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>That would be the view of many, and particularly Britain’s regular racegoers, from any standpoint but it is also the finding of the official World’s Best Racehorse listings, which has Frankel as the benchmark topweight of the annual ratings since their inception in 2004.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Frankel was handed a mark of 140 for 2012 and he heads an elite squad of 14 to have achieved a rating of 130 or better in the 10-year period 2010-19.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Australia had a strong presence for this World’s Best Racehorse rating decade — heavily weighted by a sequence of outstanding sprinters — but the Australian super mares Black Caviar and Winx, both earning a peak rating of 132, were this nation’s glowing ornaments.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>The WBR ratings are compiled for the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities by a select panel of senior handicappers from major racing countries, but with the ratings expressed in the imperial system of pounds favoured by Britain and North America.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Ratings are based on an individual’s best performance of a calendar year, not a package for a year, nor the career total of an individual.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Progressively updated with interim listings released throughout the course of the year, the final and official rankings are announced by the IFHA around the third week of January.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>As a first-time visitor to England’s famed Royal Ascot meeting in 2012, I was among the privileged to witness first-hand the performance that gave Frankel, a four-year-old by Galileo, his 140 rating (or 63.5kg by the metric measure).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>About 11 months earlier, I had viewed the live telecast from the other side of the globe of the English 2000 Guineas and signed off content that Frankel’s cavalier display was visually the second-most breathtaking racetrack performance I had seen (in my opinion nothing compares with Secretariat’s 1973 Belmont Stakes win in America).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>The Group I Queen Anne Stakes, Royal Ascot’s mile championship, opened the 2012 meeting with Frankel facing his 11th unbeaten start. He destroyed his rivals, posting a winning margin of 11 lengths in record time.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Frankel is not only the WBR ratings’ benchmark, he also has the second-highest figure for the decade, having topped the ratings in 2011 with a 136 mark for that awesome English 2000 Guineas performance.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>But for Frankel, Australia’s Black Caviar would have topped the 2011 ratings on 132. Nonetheless, this remarkable daughter of Bel Esprit was the world’s top-rated pure sprinter, in a distance range of 1000m to 1300m, for four consecutive years, 2010-13 inclusive.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Introduced to the WBR ranking in 2010 on 123, Black Caviar slipped back from 132 in 2011 to 130 in 2012, the year she made her one start away from Australia.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>And that was to bookend Royal Ascot’s first day blockbuster by Frankel with her closing day victory, the 22nd of her unblemished 25-start career, in the Group I Diamond Jubilee Stakes.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Australian-bred and/or trained sprinters to snare a 122-plus rating in the decade were Hay List and Rocket Man (125), Santa Ana Lane (currently 124), Chautauqua, Sepoy, Lankan Rupee and Terravista (123), More Joyous, Atlantic Jewel, Pierro and Trapeze Artist (122) and Nature Strip (currently 122).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/8b68e34022482472f8453820acf7ca1c"><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=650 height=365 style='width:6.7708in;height:3.802in' id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D5BF29.39F353B0" alt="Tom Queally and Frankel win The 2000 Guineas Stakes at Newmarket in 2011. Picture: Getty Images"></span></a>Tom Queally and Frankel win The 2000 Guineas Stakes at Newmarket in 2011. Picture: Getty Images<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>From a career perspective in this decade, public voting for a horse of the world award may well have Winx pipping the undefeated Frankel and Black Caviar in a three-way finish.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Like Frankel, Winx did not compete outside her native country but the daughter of Street Cry enriched Australian racing for five glorious seasons, two to six years.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>The Chris Waller-trained mare won 37 of her 43 starts — unbeaten for the last 33 while harvesting 25 Group Is and retiring with an all-time world record earnings of $26,451,175.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Like Black Caviar, Winx first entered the 120-plus division of the WBR on a 123 rating for 2015 — sharing eighth spot with 13 others. She moved into third place on 132 in 2016 as the best turf runner of any sex behind the US dirt horses Arrogate (134) and California Chrome (133).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Winx earned the same exceptional mark of 132 in 2017 but was overshadowed by Arrogate (134). And in 2018 she won all her seven outings — Group Is and including the renamed Winx Stakes — but she had to share top honours with British-trained Cracksman (son of Frankel).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/615b41737da4aad2782e95472252af2d"><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=650 height=365 style='width:6.7708in;height:3.802in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image004.jpg@01D5BF29.39F353B0"></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Arrogate arrived comet-like to American racing in the second half of 2016, his barnstorming form harvesting record earnings of $US17.42m ($24.96m) in an extraordinary five-month period.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>His stunning win sequence included the Group I Breeders’ Classic and the inaugural The Pegasus (briefly the world’s richest race) before a dynamic last-to-first Dubai World Cup victory.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>As dramatically as he had arrived, Arrogate departed, ingloriously, in much the same time frame in the second half of 2017 but the 134 mark from his Dubai success in March kept him on top.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Arrogate’s two-year reign followed the exploits of another US dirt runner, American Pharoah, who attracted a 134 topweight for 2015 to become the second three-year-old of the decade to do so – Frankel was the other on 136 back in 2011.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>American Pharoah was rated on 128 after becoming the first US triple crown winner in 37 years. But he was raised to 134 after thrashing his elders later that year in his racing finale, the Breeders’ Cup Classic.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>The highest-rated older middle-distance runner of the decade was the British-trained Harbinger (by Dansili) who gained the decade’s next highest rating behind Frankel with a 135 mark in 2010, a rating achieved in his spectacular 11-length win in course record time in the Group I King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>A post-race injury at what was only his fourth unbeaten start of the year prevented Harbinger improving his rating further as he did not race again, finding a new career at stud in Japan.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Japan holds the key to whether the final ratings for 2019 will have a topweight at 130 or better — a common factor of the first nine years of the decade.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>As of the latest interim release on November 10, the British pair Crystal Ocean and Enable shared topweight on 128 with French stayer Walgeist — with Winx rather shoddily treated equal seventh on 125, Santa Ana Lane on 124 and veteran miler Happy Clapper on 123.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>But Japanese-bred mare Lys Gracieux, raised from 119 to 121 for her Cox Plate demolition in late October, is due for a significant reassessment as she returned home from her Melbourne triumph to line up in the Group I Arima Kinen nine days ago.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>In a race that attracted national wagering turnover of ¥46.889bn ($779.8m), Lys Gracieux turned in a career-best performance.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>She toyed with her 15 rivals, including nine Group I winners, winning by five lengths in a time just one second off the track record. In 2011, Japan’s triple crown winner Orfevre closed his classic season by beating older horses in the Arima Kinen.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>He was given a year-end rating of 123, clearly a mark that should have had the WBR handicapping panel shipped off to the nearest branch of Specsavers.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Orfevre brought off an Arima Kinen double in 2013, this time his eight-length margin advancing his rating from 125 to 129.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>As a comparison, for her similar dominant success in the Arima Kinen, Lys Gracieux will require a rare 9lb (4kg) rise to reach 130, but a 7lb (3kg) boost to 128 for a four-way tie at the top is feasible.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>