COLLINGBOURNE trainer Richard Hannon came off second best as his stable star Canford Cliffs was comprehensively beaten by star miler Frankel in the Qipco Sussex Stakes at Glorious Goodwood today.

The most anticipated race of the meeting turned into a procession as 2000 Guineas winner Frankel stormed home by five lengths to leave Canford Cliffs, the winner of five consecutive Group One races, well beaten.

Hannon said: “That wasn’t his run. I know one horse had to win and one had to lose, but we’ll have to have another go at him.

“Either Frankel is just unbeatable or we should have been closer.’’

Hannon did take his tally of Glorious Goodwood winners to three in the earlier Veuve Clicquot Vintage Stakes.

The Wiltshire handler won for the second successive year as 5-2 favourite Chandlery made every yard of the running under Richard Hughes.

The juvenile had been beaten just a neck by the reopposing Red Duke in Newmarket's Superlative Stakes on his latest start and was 3lb better off this time around.

Hannon said: "He's a big, strong horse and a great galloper, so he'd be hard to get by at any stage. You just have to let him use himself.

"I said to Richard 'if nothing wants to go on, don't worry about it as he'll gallop from end to end'.

"He's entered in a sales race at York and I don't see why we wouldn't run him there as it's big money.

"The winner is a good horse and so is the second as he didn't have the greatest passage in the world and had to come all the way up the inner."

On Tuesday, Hannon’s Strong Suit won the bet365 Lennox Stakes, while Moustache triumphed in the Casino At Bet365 EBF ‘Assertive’ Maiden Stakes.

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