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Frankel Team Prepare for Biggest Test Yet
26/07/11

Frankel will have his hands full as the 3-year-old colt goes in search of maintaining his unbeaten record in the highly anticipated Sussex Stakes at Glorious Goodwood on Wednesday.

Frankel
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Frankel

Frankel will go up against Canford Cliffs, who is unbeaten in his last five group 1 outings, at Goodwood in what is being billed as the biggest showdown of the year.

The Henry Cecil-trained horse rose to prominence after his sparkling display as he decimated the field in the 2,000 Guineas earlier this year, but www.freebetshere.com have still found it difficult to separate him from Canford Cliffs in the betting stakes.

While all eyes are on Frankel, Canford Cliffs is going in search of claiming his own slice of history as he looks to become the first horse to win the Sussex Stakes twice after his victory at Goodwood in 2010.

Punters have been reluctant to take bookies up on their offers on Frankel due to the colt taking on horses older than him for the first time.

Outside of the two big names the race will be contested by just two other horses, with the French-trained Rajsaman and Godolphin's Rio De La Plata completing the field.

The man set to ride Frankel on Wednesday, Tom Queally, insisted he wasn’t fazed by the small field and said he was concentrating on the job in hand.

Canford Cliffs
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Canford Cliffs

"There will be a huge crowd and it should be a great spectacle, despite there only being four runners, with the big two horses frightening off the others, but it makes no difference to me," he told www.racinguk.com.

"It wouldn't bother me if there were 14 or just two, we know what we have to do. Frankel has shown he's the best three-year-old around and now he has to prove it against older horses, namely Canford Cliffs.

"He hasn't met a horse of that calibre before so this will tell us where he ranks among all the milers around today.

"A lot has been written and said about tactics, but we have options with Frankel, and in the end I'm sure it will be a case of the best horse winning." he added.

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