Business & Finance Club - Dubai: Trainer Henry Cecil issued an upbeat bulletin on Frankel, the big ante-post favourite for next Saturday's Dubai Dewhurst Stakes (Group 1), and even fearlessly compared his would-be star to two of the best horses he has ever trained.

The ten-time champion trainer, who sent out the son of Galileo to record a hugely impressive 10 length victory in the Group Two Juddmonte Royal Lodge Stakes at Ascot last month, believe his two-year-old colt is as good as Wollow and Diesis, who were outstanding winners of the Dewhurst.

After watching Frankel, the 13/18 favourite for the big race, work at the Warrn Hill gallops in Newmarket yesterday, the trainer gave his ward a big thumbs up.

"Frankel seems in great order. He picked everything up very easily and has started to show more and more," said Cecil.

Frankel, who also heads the market for next year's 2000 Guineas and Epsom Derby, will take on promising Godolphin colt Saamidd and the Khalifa Bin Dasmal-owned Dream Ahead, among other notable two-year-olds.

However, Cecil has made no secret of his admiration for Frankel, named after Bobby Frankel, one of the most successful trainers in American racing history.

Lot of hype

"He's exciting," continued 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."

Cecil, who prepared Wollow to win the Dewhurst in 1975 and the 2000 Guineas and Coral Eclipse Stakes the following year, was even confident of Frankel training on for 2011.

"It's all positive he'll train on at three and hopefully he's a Guineas horse," he said.

"There is a question of how far he will stay," he said.