Frankel’s three-quarter brother and part-time pacemaker Bullet Train has been retired to stand at stud in Kentucky.  USA based agent Bob Feld said the announcement of his new home will be made on December 1.

The five year-old son of Sadler’s Wells won a Yarmouth maiden in October 2009 and graduated to a G3 in the Derby Trial at Lingfield in May 2010.  He and Frankel both raced as homebreds for Juddmonte Farms owner Khalid Abdullah.

Bullet Train served as a bunny in all of Frankel’s five starts this year and was last seen going down 14 lengths in the G1 Champion Stakes on October 20.  His jockey Ian Mongan delivered a memorable quote while Bullet Train’s stablemate basked in the adulation of the Newmarket crowd.  “I must be the only jockey to ever have punched the air when I crossed the line in sixth.”

Bullet Train and Frankel are from stakes-winning Danehill mare Kind.  Bullet Train is a son of Sadler’s Wells and so is Frankel sire Galileo.