Daily Mail

TWICE AS FAST AS BOLT . .. AND VERY BIG FEET!

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43MPH FRANKEL’S top speed. He could cover 100 metres in 5.2 seconds... almost twice as fast as Usain Bolt, whose world record stands at 9.58sec. The eight-time Olympic champion clocked a top speed of 27.8mph during that run. 7½ THE size of Frankel’s feet in inches. The typical size for a top racehorse is five inches. He covered 22 feet with each stride and is also thought to have an unusually large heart. £3m THE career prize-money Frankel earned from his 14 victories. 76¼ TOTAL lengths between Frankel and second-placed horses across his 14 wins — equivalent to two football pitches. 147 HIS rating by racing data firm Timeform, the best ever recorded for a flat-course thoroughbr­ed. 23lb HE ate 23lb of Canadian oats each day to fuel his winning career — amounting to 35,000 calories! It is the equivalent of eating 600 Weetabix. 14 FRANKEL started each of his 14 races as favourite and was odds-on going into 13 of them.

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