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“Let’s Hope she is Good”
Minnie Hauk is not just efficient but also tactically adaptable — able to settle, quicken, and sustain a long run-in. Her 7.32m stride isn’t the longest, but her ability to stretch at key moments make the essential difference.
🏇 Minnie Hauk showed some impressive stride metrics during her win in the 2025 Cheshire Oaks at Chester: ⬇️⬇️
- Average stride length: 7.32 meters — ranking her 3rd longest in the field.
- Top speed: 37.51 mph — reached during a strong mid-race surge.
- Acceleration: Took 6.2 seconds to reach 30 mph from the stalls.
- Final furlongs: Closed in 12.54s, 12.79s, and 12.56s — showing consistent pace under pressure.
- Finishing speed: 104% — indicating she maintained momentum through the line.
- Winning time: 2:29.15 on good ground — competitive historically for this race.
🏇 Sire Frankel’s stride data was the stuff of Legends.
- Stride length: Measured at a peak of 8.32 meters (27.3 feet) during the 2011 Sussex Stakes at Goodwood. That’s significantly longer than the average elite racehorse, which typically clocks in around 7.3 meters.
- Cadence (stride frequency): 2.4 strides per second, slightly above the average for milers (~2.3 sps). This balance of long stride and high cadence is rare and contributes to his sustained cruising speed.
- Efficiency: Each stride covers more ground with fewer steps, meaning Frankel could maintain high speeds with less energy expenditure—an indicator of elite aerobic capacity.
A combination of long stride + high cadence is what made Frankel so devastating over a mile. Most horses excel at one or the other—he mastered both.
In the Irish Oaks, Minnie Hauk settled in third, quickened late, and won by 1¼ lengths, showing a deceptively relaxed style that masked her underlying power. The Efficiency to maintain speed with minimal energy loss—echoing Frankel’s hallmark trait of combining long stride with high cadence.
Profile –
https://www.pedigreequery.com/minnie+hauk3
8x Natalma via Northern Dancer & 3×3 Danehill
Heavy influence settles to Prince John (dam’s distaff Censhorship + Stage Door Johnny ) by 8x Princequillo (Rose bower, Round table, Somethingroyal, Milan Mill + Prince John)
** @Frankel’s distaff family 1-k, + Stage Door Johnny f.f. 1-l + Minnie Hauk’s dam thru Dancing Brave b/m sire Drone (USA) f.f. 1-l = Ellen Horn, her grand-daughter Paraffin. (the ancestry to Chelandry & Lada) (story @ Ellen Horn here)
Haplotype Magic…🌟
@Haplotypes @ 1 branch all, possibly or likely indicate variants N2a also attributed to Family 6 foundations Cream Cheeks, (notes should be re-attributed by PQ info ⚠ ⚠️
(note: reflects a USA equivalent @ (N2a) mitochondria DNA – Justify (USA) noting Hawaii (SAF) same female family 1-l. (n.b. not to female distaff, but an affinity in mitochondria DNA
Haplotype N ancestry >> Bromus dam of Phalaris & Shirley Heights (GB)
f.f. 1-k Roi Herode, sire of The Tetrarch & the sire of Cinq-a-Sept (Somethingroyal) & Bold Reasoning (USA). Twig Moss (Fr).
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🐴– will there be a Frankel – Justify cross in the future??🤔
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🌟the name of Minnie Hauk is the pet name of Opera singer Amalia Mignon Hauck (November 16, 1851 – February 6, 1929),
Minnie Hauk was also in 1877, a mare’s race name.
Minnie Hauk is the distaff family of sire, half brother Kingman. Her dam Multilingual has a sire standing in Turkey, Tilsit (USA) a son of First Defence.
Minnie Hauk catalogue & yearling footage https://www.goffs.com/sale/IRE/orby-sale-2023/lots/525