“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.”
With Frankel already attracting short price for the 2000 Guineas next year, the son of Galileo will see his price shorten further if he can score a victory over a field that will include the likes of Dream Ahead, Native Khan and Saamidd in the event.
“He’s exciting,” added 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.”
On what may be in the future for the horse, 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.”
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