Frankel awarded BBA Silver Cigar Box

Frankel claimed the BBA Silver Cigar Box as Britain’s leading sire by earnings in 2021, bringing an end to Dubawi’s eight-year reign of the award.

With 87 winners in Britain and Ireland amassing £5,209,199, Frankel gained eight new top-level winners in the year, four of whom were successful in Britain and Ireland. Godolphin’s homebred Adayar provided the stallion with his first Derby scorer and was the first three-year-old colt to take the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes in a decade. The Normandie Stud-bred Hurricane Lane, third at Epsom, won the Irish equivalent three weeks later before adding the Grand Prix de Paris and St Leger to his record.

Snow Lantern and Inspiral completed the quartet of domestic Group 1 winners for the sire, with victories in the Falmouth Stakes and Fillies’ Mile respectively.

Taken from TBA press release, 28 January 2022

The award was presented at the TBA Flat Breeders' Awards at Chippenham Park near Newmarket on Wednesday 6th July 2022.