As he has in many of racing’s top festivals, the great Galileo has an excellent record at York’s Ebor meeting.
Galileo
The Coolmore legend has a fine record in the Ebor meeting’s Gr1 Juddmonte International, with Galileo sons Rip Van Winkle, Frankel, Australia, Ulysses and Japan winning the Juddmonte International in 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017 and 2019 respectively.
Galileo added to his stellar record this year when his maternal grandson Ghaiyyath (Dubawi) scored a hugely impressive win in the 2020 Juddmonte International -while accounting for Galileo’s six time Gr1 winning daughter Magical.
A third Juddmonte International winner for Dubawi, Ghaiyyath (one of two G1 winners thus far out of Galileo’s Irish 1000 Guineas winning daughter Nightime) was winning for a fourth time at the highest level with the five-year-old having previously collected all of the Gr1 Grosser Preis von Baden (in 2019) and this year’s Gr1 Hurworth Bloodstock Coronation Cup and Gr1 Coral-Eclipse.
Galileo enjoyed more York success as a broodmare sire this year when his maternal grandson Certain Lad (out of the Galileo daughter Chelsey Jayne) captured Saturday’s Gr3 Sky Bet And Symphony Group Strensall Stakes.
Galileo’s success at this year’s Ebor meeting, however, was not restricted to his broodmare daughters.
Love wins the Gr1 on Thursday (Pic – Coolmore)
His outstanding daughter Love (bred, like South African stallions Flying The Flag and The United States, on the potent Galileo/Pivotal cross) collected her fourth G1 win when sauntering to a five length win in Thursday’s G1 Darley Yorkshire Oaks.
Alpinista, runner up to Love, is a daughter of Galileo’s greatest son Frankel, and four of the six runners in this year’s Yorkshire Oaks were sired by either Galileo or Frankel.
In the process, Love became the fourth daughter of Galileo to land the Yorkshire Oaks following Lush Lashes (2008), Tapestry (2014) and Seventh Heaven (2016).
Galileo’s star granddaughter Enable captured the Yorkshire Oaks in both 2017 and 2019, while his son Teofilo is the sire of 2015 winner Pleascach.
Galileo’s unbeaten son Teofilo also got in the act at this year’s Ebor festival, with Teofilo supplying Wednesday’s Gr3 Tattersalls Acomb Stakes winner Gear Up, while another son of Galileo, Nathaniel, is the sire of Saturday’s Sky Bet Ebor Handicap runner up Glencadam Glory.
However, perhaps the best example of Galileo’s ever increasing dominance can be seen in the pedigree of Saturday’s surprise Gr2 Galileo EBF Futurity Stakes winner Mac Swiney.
The latter was sired by Galileo’s Derby winning son New Approach and his dam, Halla Na Saoire, is a daughter of Galileo’s unbeaten son Teofilo.
