Henry Cecil is back in fashion, as Frankel takes flair for Royal Ascot

  Before Frankel returned to the track on Tuesday, as the opening act for imperfectible Royal Ascot this week, it can be for fans of Colt, was to know about his maturation overestimated. The smart thing to say about him, the best racehorse in the world has officially announced that it has become a professional in his third season, but his trainer, Sir Henry Cecil, reported that a series of rock star behavior persists.

"He was always broke the box," said Cecil, whose career number of 73 victories at the Royal meeting is a record, 10 more than any other person holding a license. "He breaks the managers and stuff like that. It is very hot-blooded.

"You may think this is a cold evening, put a light under the pad and it will find that you are at 10 clock at night, he tried the covers over his head, which is dangerous to draw. It can tangle and break the neck or leg. So one must observe it. "

Cecil himself is the image of sophistication, bent his thin body have casually on a wooden chair in the garden of his Warren Place stables, but his temperament has sometimes plagued by the additional worry that Frankel has brought into his life. Security cameras are in place, and not just that the horse can be saved from themselves, but can also be seen as an aid for the fans who have somehow found their way into the scene. "People are inclined to wander and suddenly ... Who the hell?

"We have come to take a look at Frankel.

"Well, you can not see Frankel. He wants to be left alone."

Cecil a priority of teaching Frankel in his race happy, so it was with sadness that the horse at the Royal meeting saw last year when his jockey Tom Queally, shot him was in the mid-term, but only the inspirer of him.

"I do not think I've never been so angry in my life," recalled the coach. "For me it is an absolute catastrophe, I hate to think about it. I want to forget, the horse has done well to get through.".

Frankel has his pacing around the house again, but was used prematurely and was drunk with fatigue in the final furlong and won by less than a length instead of the usual four or five. As for the famous director Cecil urban harsh words to his jockey?

"I explained that we would have to do something different in the future. The damage was done. It was not very funny.

"But it is almost forgotten and Tom have to ride the horse and now know very well. It rises beautifully, he has his confidence in all directions. It's just one of those things. We all make mistakes. J have done hundreds of my life. "

Cecil is good, modest, but there is little evidence of genuine trust. It is clear from his plan for Frankel last year - at the Queen Anne Stakes Tuesday, the Sussex Stakes at Goodwood, Juddmonte at York, Champion Stakes at Ascot - and is no less impressed with other proposals.

"I was trying all the time to do what is best for him, I read everything, what I should do and what should I do not think I have not yet done and that people should I do. To have calmed down, bring it [the course] and make him into a sprinter and, like the others. I do not consider you know that "

Frankel side, he other animals to walk chic this week - Thomas Chippendale and noble mission, on Friday, and to determine Wrotham Heath Thursday. In Windsor Forest Wednesday he is in the field Chachamaidee, winning at Lingfield, "as one Frankel has accelerated." But, although it will be at least a runner, he will miss Saturday for the answer to his step-daughter at her wedding.

At the age of 69 years, six years after he was discovered in gastric cancer, Cecil seems happy and much healthier than in the most difficult months of treatment. Chemotherapy is "currently on maintenance. I seem to not always boring. I'm here. Another day is another day.

"One must always be careful and eat very carefully. But so far, touch wood, I am absolutely right. I'm not saying that I am healed.

"It's really hard to chemotherapy was difficult. I've never had a day off and we could barely walk. The next day I pull into the bog.

"Now, you might feel a little funny for two or three days. I do not think my health. I think that's the worst thing you can do." He made a face model in a bad mood, mouth pain, "Am I good?" "Just keep looking forward. Got to."

Can there be a time when he give up the work will be day? "I think I will. I want. Not quite. I like it, it's a lifestyle. I think I might have cut off a little.

"I wish I could have more time to do something different. I am very interested in clothes. I have a great friend who is a tailor in London and I think, begin to design my own clothes.

"I like clothes come off very well and cashmere jackets with floral inserts and all this stuff. I think many people buy clothes these days are not very exciting. I have a jacket, herringbone chocolate, which is half and half mink cashmere, so It is not something you can at Woolworths.

"I am a shopaholic, really. I love shopping. Many men who have no desire to go shopping, they go into the stores the night before Christmas.

"I could buy the whole week from nine to seven in the morning clock clock in the evening in London - whether it is for women, clothes or books or pictures, it s" no matter what it is, I guess that is not really normal for a human being. I think I may have the female hormones. "

He pulls back, he says, if the owner of Frankel, Khalid Abdullah stopped sending him horses. But this is not to be expected since Abdullah kept faith with him, even through the lean times of 2005, as Cecil had only a dozen winners.

"I appreciate his style of training horses. I was very late ripening and backwards. Dumb as a child and all. Had happened to one of my first ever Prep School to fail Common Entrance to Eton. School 90 years or more.

"I like to think I came too late to mature and I like those kind of horses. And horses, many of them take a little time, but they are worth the wait, you know that?"