Frankel in top form ahead of Dewhurst Henry Cecil did little to dampen the ever-increasing excitement about Frankel ahead of next week's Dubai Dewhurst Stakes - despite some efforts to the contrary. The multiple champion trainer believes the colt to be as promising as any two-year-old to have passed through his hands in almost 40 years, a comment he first made after he took the Royal Lodge Stakes at Ascot by an effortless 10 lengths. Frankel went through his paces up the Warren Hill gallops in Newmarket on Friday morning and Cecil reports the son of Galileo to be in perfect condition. "Frankel seems in great order," said Cecil. "He picked everything up very easily and has started to show more and more. "I wanted him to run again down here in the Dewhurst, when the ground is more likely to be good, and I can finish him up earlier than if I ran him in the Racing Post Trophy. ""He's entitled to go there - I'm not suggesting he is going to win - but it would be nice if could go away at the end of the season as a Group One winner." Frankel is already a very short price for next year's 2000 Guineas and his odds will contract further if he is to defeat a field a week on Saturday which may well include Dream Ahead, Native Khan and Saamidd. "He's exciting," continued Cecil. "We haven't had a lot of early type horses but as a two-year-old, he's probably as good as any I've had for a long time - going back to Wollow and Diesis, who were very good horses. "But there's an awful lot of hype about horses. If he were to win the Dewhurst I'd be very happy, but it's easy to build them up. Bubbles burst." Looking towards Frankel's possibilities next season, Cecil said: "It's all positive he'll train on at three and hopefully he's a Guineas horse. "There is a question of how far he will stay. If I were to then train him for the Derby and he didn't stay a mile and a half, you can mess them up if you bring them back in distance. "Otherwise you would look at the St James's Palace route. He'll tell us what to do."
