ANOTHER installment in the Frankel success story was written on Saturday when Frankuus won the Listed 32Red Casino Stakes at Haydock Park. This was the third stakes winner for the stallion in his first crop, joining the Group 2 Lowther Stakes winner Queen Kindly and the Group 3 Princess Margaret Stakes winner Fair Eva.

By my reckoning, Frankuus has an unusual distinction. Of the yearlings sold by Frankel so far he is the least expensive, costing Mark Johnston ‘only’ €130,000 at Goffs last year.