Frankel - Simon Cooper

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      This eBook first published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2020

      Copyright © Simon Cooper 2020

      Images © individual copyright holders

      Race card © Racing Post

      Cover image © CARL COURT/Stringer/Getty Images

      Simon Cooper asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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      Source ISBN: 9780008307035

      Ebook Edition © August 2020 ISBN: 9780008307059

      Version: 2020-06-02

      Mum

      Sorry I didn’t finish in time.

      ‘And Allah took a handful of southerly wind,

      blew His breath over it, and created the horse.’

      Bedouin legend

      Contents

      1  Cover

      2  Title Page

      3  Copyright

      4  Dedication

      5  Epigraph

      6  Contents

      7  Prologue

      8  1 Genetic alchemy

      9 2 A certain kindness

      10  3 Creation day

      11  4 Day 343

      12  5 More Irish than English

      13  6 The Pick

      14  7 In training for training

      15  8 A horse by a very special name

      16  9 Warren Place

      17  10 Getting into his head

      18  11 The 6.35 at Newmarket

      19  12 Intensive training

      20  13 Economical with the actualité

      21  14 Winter dreaming

      22  15 Leading from the front

      23  16 Arise Sir Henry

      24  17 Duel on the Downs

      25  18 The high-stakes gamble

      26  19 Hidden dips

      27  20 Flying the standard

      28  21 Always summer

      29  22 The end of days

      30  Epilogue

      31  The Newmarket 11

      32  Keeneland to fenland

      33  A six-figure loss

      34  Last man standing

      35  The worst Derby runner ever?

      36  Up in the air

      37  A 99 per cent write-down

      38  The cruellest cut

      39  All-weather man

      40  Pinhooked

      41  Scandal

      42  Shadow man

      43  Acknowledgements

      44  The Frankel File

      45  Pedigree

      46  Race record

      47  Timeline

      48  Awards

      49  Frankel by numbers

      50  Picture Section

      51  Bibliography

      52  Index

      53  About the Author

      54  About the Publisher

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