Daenerys Targaryen story a "non-stop confrontation with complex ideas about sex, war, gender, race, politics and morality". Matthew Gilbert of "The Boston Globe" called her scenes "mesmerizing". "Salon"'s Andrew Leonard, in his review of "A Dance with Dragons", called Daenerys one of the series' three strongest characters, and bemoaned her lack of inclusion in "A Feast for Crows". The website Mashable recognized her as one of the five most popular characters on the series, while "The Daily Beast" referred to her as the "closest thing the series has to a protagonist". Emilia Clarke's acting performance, as she closed Daenerys's arc in the
Regal Discovery duty where he met with modest results. Regal Discovery died at age sixteen on January 6, 2008. Regal Discovery Regal Discovery (1992–2008) was a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 1995 Queen's Plate, Canada's most prestigious race and North America's oldest annually run stakes race. Bred by Dr. Gordon Scott, Regal Discovery was sired by Regal Classic, the 1987 Canadian Champion Two-Year-Old-Colt and a grandson of the legendary Northern Dancer. He was out of the mare Royal Discovery, a daughter of multiple stakes winner Tom Tulle who was a son of the 1965 American Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse,