More scans needed for Frankel

Fri 13th Apr 2012, 11:38

Frankel
(Healy Racing Photos)

Sir Henry Cecil's unbeaten colt Frankel is to have a further scan at the end of next week on an injury he sustained when working in Newmarket on Wednesday morning.

Winner of all nine of his starts to date, including the 2000 Guineas, St James's Palace Stakes and Queen Elizabeth II Stakes last year, he was due to make his seasonal reappearance in the JLT Lockinge Stakes at Newbury on May 19.

He had been pencilled in for a racecourse gallop at Newbury next weekend but plans are now up in the air after he injured his off-fore leg.

"He's had one scan which showed no damage. That is good news but is not definitive,'' said owner Khalid Abdullah's racing manager Teddy Grimthorpe.

"He will have a scan at the end of next week and that will tell us more.''

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