Robert J. Frankel

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Robert "Bobby" J. Frankel (born July 9, 1941 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American thoroughbred race horse trainer. He was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1995.

Frankel is an avid follower of the training techniques of the late and great Charlie Whittingham, trainer of champions such as Ferdinand and Sunday Silence. Frankel has won several Eclipse Awards, the year-end horse racing awards, for best trainer. He has set earnings records, Grade I Stakes victories records, and many others. Frankel has also won the Pacific Classic a record 6 times. Some of his best horses include Squirtle Squirt, his first Breeders' Cup winner; Skimming 2-Time Winner of the Grade 1 Pacific Classic; Sightseek, winner of the Humana Distaff (gr. I) and Ogden Phipps H. (gr. I); triple grade I winner; Empire Maker, victor of the Belmont Stakes (gr. I); two-time Santa Anita H. (gr. I) winner Milwaukee Brew; and Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf (gr. I) winner Starine, whom he also owned; and Ghostzapper, the Breeders' Cup Classic (gr. I) winner who was voted the 2004 Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year.

On June 26, 2005, the horse Wild Desert, owned by several businesspeople including New York Yankees manager Joe Torre, gave Frankel his first victory in the $1 million Queen's Plate, the first leg of the Canadian Triple Crown at Woodbine Racetrack.