I'm not sure if what Frankel has achieved with his first runners is unprecedented as I don't know what Blandford and Bahram and their like achieved in their early days. But I'd be surprised if any new sire has made such a dramatic entrance as Frankel has done. The strange thing is that he's getting chestnuts and greys quite often which one might not have expected as the Northern Dancer bay gene usually seems pretty dominant. What is to like is that whatever colour they come in they seem to have that assertive Frankel running style.
Even if he only achieves a 1/3 of the strike rate that he's currently recording that his produce will be the 'must-haves' at the sales this autumn and in the years to come. One feature of the printed list of his 2yo offspring is that AOB is only once recorded as a trainer of a Frankel 2yo. I wonder how Coolmore are feeling about that at the moment? One of their issues is going to be that many of their mares are by Sadler's Wells and his sons Galileo and Montjeu, but especially Galileo. I'd be highly surprised if they were to send Galileo mares to Frankel though they might try the odd Sadler's Wells mare I suppose: but 2 X 3 inbreeding to Sadler's Wells may not work. So an interesting conundrum for Coolmore.
I think a certain Mr Tesio had as one of his principles not to continually send mares to the same sire. Now we have an example of why not: that being if that sire has a great son you can't use him.