Frankel's Minnie Hauk enters the Oaks picture

The daughter of Frankel, who was purchased for €1.85 million at Goffs Orby Sale as a yearling, took command of the Listed Cheshire Oaks for her first stakes win yesterday (7th May).

Taken from the Thoroughbred Daily News, 8th May 2025:

Sent off the 13-8 favourite for the extended 11-furlong trial for that Epsom Classic, the daughter of Frankel tended to race a touch behind the pace-setter Queen Of Thieves but was able to answer every call from Ryan Moore to take command inside the final three furlongs. Sticking to her task in the home straight, the relative of Kingman and Oasis Dream had a length to spare over Andrew Balding-trained Listed Montrose Stakes runner-up Secret Of Love at the line, with Caspi Star another length and a quarter away in third.

"I was very happy with the filly, as she'd been a little bit behind the others and she needed the experience," Aidan O'Brien said of the winner, who was blowing hard in the winner's enclosure after her first start since Leopardstown in October.

"We sent her over, though, because we think she's got that little bit of quality, so we were very happy to see her do that. We'll have to see what happens in the other trials now, but we ran her today thinking that she would then go on to Epsom."

Multilingual, who only got to run once for Juddmonte before being sold as a maiden but significant broodmare prospect, ended up with the Sangsters having fetched a generous-looking $525,000 at the 2019 Keeneland November Sale.