There were some outrageous statements that were then tied around the Rowley Mile City of Troy 'S impressive victory in the Dewhurst Stakes of Group 1, but part of the owner Michael Tabor cut the noise when he explained that Coolmore had found theirs Frankel .
It was a massive explanation, but after City of Troy had maintained his unbeaten record with an effortless success of 3 1/2 length and after listening to Aidan O'Brien and Ryan Moore of the son of, speaking, Justify Like a kind of extraterrestrial, it was not impossible to believe that Tabor speaks the truth.
City of Troy. Brilliant in the Dewhurst Stakes 🚀
🏇 three runs
🥇 three victories
🏆 G1 Native Trail Dewhurst Stakes
🏆 G2 superlative stakes
😍 What a view@Ballydoyle | @Newmarketrace pic.twitter.com/wo7hjp2ejh– Racing television (@Racingtv) October 14, 2023
City of Troy has a long, long way to climb to a similar summit, but with the two thousand Guineen, Derby and St. Leger, all of which are mentioned as potential future goals, everything is literally possible at this stage.
“He is really our Frankel,” Tabor said to the most respected personalities in the global race and believed every word he said. “I know how Aidan speaks. We are all optimists, but this horse is something special. No question, he is the real deal.”
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Tabor's comments on Frankel quickly stayed around the winner's enclosure, but neither Moore nor O'brien wanted to dampen the enthusiasm.
It is anything but unusual to hear how O'Brien speaks glowing after the success of Gigantic-Race, but it is far less common to deliver bogs the superlative, but he was not about to downplay the unique properties of City from Troje.
“He impressed me with all his starts and on the first day I drove him [at the Curragh] He did something that a horse has never done to me, “said the driver.” I couldn't stop him and that has never happened. “
Then came the Frankel question.
“For me it is the best race horse I've ever seen,” said Moore about Sir Henry Cecils Champion. “I said stupid to someone privately at the July course [after City of Troy had won] That I hadn't seen a 2-year-old since him. It is a silly comparison to make and this horse has a long way to go, but it is stimulating at the moment and what it has done so far has impressed me. He is a very occasional horse, I think. ”
And so on O'Brien, who looked very thoughtful before the race, when he was concerned about the suitability of the soil for the city of Troy, but ended up with a record-eating immersed success and a colt that was intended for size.
“He would hate this floor absolutely, but we had no other anywhere else to run it,” said the master coach. “Thank God, we went. He had the right to be beaten [on that ground]But he never gets tired and I've never seen such a horse.
“You need tractor tires to go on this floor, and he didn't understand. What he has is a jet engine and its engine has pushed through his action. We usually push them to the border, but we could never find its border.”
