{"id":250839,"date":"2025-07-09T13:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T13:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/250839\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T13:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T13:20:11","slug":"fancy-a-stroll-down-frankel-avenue-it-will-soon-be-possible-with-new-newmarket-road-names-set-to-honour-the-greats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/250839\/","title":{"rendered":"Fancy a stroll down Frankel Avenue? It will soon be possible with new Newmarket road names set to honour the greats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"Text__0__GlideArticleBody\">You will soon be able to walk, drive or cycle down roads with five-star racing names such as Frankel Avenue and Sir Henry Cecil Drive after plans for road names on a new site of 50 homes were agreed by West Suffolk Council.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"Text__1__GlideArticleBody\">Part of a location which was formerly St Felix Middle School on Fordham Road is also earmarked to include a road named Shergar Way, after the legendary Derby winner trained in the town by the recently retired Sir Michael Stoute.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"Text__2__GlideArticleBody\">The main road through the development is to be named after Cecil, who died in 2013, just a year after the retirement of his stable star Frankel, whose unbeaten 14-race career culminated in a memorable last hurrah in the Champion Stakes at Ascot.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb0b4133-2 cgVXXE\">Read award-winning journalism from the best writers in racing, with exclusive news, interviews, columns, investigations, stable tours and subscriber-only emails.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to unlock<\/p>\n<ul class=\"sc-eb0b4133-5 hJkQDn\">\n<li data-testid=\"Text__SubscriptionFeature\" class=\"sc-eb0b4133-6 kCjOjY\">Racing Post digital newspaper (worth over \u00a3100 per month)<\/li>\n<li data-testid=\"Text__SubscriptionFeature\" class=\"sc-eb0b4133-6 kCjOjY\">Award-winning journalism from the best writers in racing<\/li>\n<li data-testid=\"Text__SubscriptionFeature\" class=\"sc-eb0b4133-6 kCjOjY\">Expert tips from the likes of Tom Segal and Paul Kealy<\/li>\n<li data-testid=\"Text__SubscriptionFeature\" class=\"sc-eb0b4133-6 kCjOjY\">Replays and results analysis from all UK and Irish racecourses<\/li>\n<li data-testid=\"Text__SubscriptionFeature\" class=\"sc-eb0b4133-6 kCjOjY\">Form study tools including the Pro Card and Horse Tracker<\/li>\n<li data-testid=\"Text__SubscriptionFeature\" class=\"sc-eb0b4133-6 kCjOjY\">Extensive archive of statistics covering horses, trainers, jockeys, owners, pedigree and sales data<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.racingpost.com\/subscriptions\/\" data-testid=\"Link__Subscribe\" class=\"sc-eb0b4133-7 yLNHi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"Text__Login\" class=\"sc-eb0b4133-8 gRoJBC\">Already a subscriber?<a data-testid=\"Link__Login\" href=\"https:\/\/www.racingpost.com\/api\/auth\/login\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Log in<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You will soon be able to walk, drive or cycle down roads with five-star racing names such as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-250839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114823484576433584","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}