Dream Ahead still officially better than Frankel despite Dewhurst flop

Frankel, the two-year-old star of the 2010 season and hot favourite for next year's 2,000 Guineas, could finish the campaign as only the second-best juvenile of the crop according to the official ratings. Henry Cecil's unbeaten colt has been raised 1lb to a mark of 124 after his victory in the Group One Dewhurst Stakes onSaturday, while Dream Ahead, only fifth of six runners in that event, is rated 126, thanks to his nine-length win in the Middle Park Stakes earlier this month. Dream Ahead's new mark is a 2lb drop on his figure immediately after the Middle Park, which was run on soft ground. "I don't want to denigrate Frankel in any way," said Matthew Tester, the British Horseracing Authority's two-year-old specialist. "And I think that there is every chance he will turn out to be the horse that Henry Cecil expects him to be, but there is no way you can prove it by beating a maiden winner [Roderic O'Connor] and a maiden [Glor Na Mara], which is what he did on Saturday." Neither Frankel nor Dream Ahead is expected to race again as a two-year-old and the only realistic chance for a boost to Frankel's final rating appears to lie with the horses he beat so comprehensively when 10 lengths clear in the Royal Lodge Stakes at Ascot in September. "By the end of the year, the figures may look different," Tester said. "There's going to be a lot of debate about Dream Ahead, about the fact that he won by nine lengths on soft ground, and whether it's right to have him ahead of Frankel or whether we call them the same horse. "It is likely to depend on where we put the Royal Lodge Stakes. I think there's a good chance that we will end up with a higher rating for Frankel, because the placed horses from the Royal Lodge [Klammer and Treasure Beach] will come out and boost the form." Treasure Beach could do just that on Saturday at Doncaster in the Racing Post Trophy, for which he is one of 11 entries after three horses were added to the field at a cost of £17,000 each today. One of the supplementary entries, Casamento, is the new favourite for the last Group One of the British season at a top price of 5-2. The colt, trained in Ireland by Michael Halford and owned by Sheikh Mohammed, will be ridden by FrankieDettori. Dunboyne Express, the four-length winner of the Beresford Stakes last time out, is a 4-1 chance in a market dominated by Irish-trained horses.