Galileo Gold - Background and Profile from The Irish Field
SIRE REVIEWS: GALILEO GOLD Standing at Tally-Ho Stud
By Dr Sieglinde McGee on 02 February 2018
THERE are currently two major branches of the Danzig (by Northern Dancer) sire line – with the possibility of a third developing over the next decade – and in Galileo Gold we have a representative of the powerful Green Desert one.
The son of ace miler Paco Boy (by Desert Style) has the added attraction of having both a top-class race record and of coming from the immediate family of a major classic sire. All of this makes Galileo Gold likely to be among the most popular new recruits of 2018.
His six-furlong maiden success in early June of his juvenile season came on his second start, it was followed by a seven-furlong score at Haydock and then victory in the Group 2 Vintage Stakes at Goodwood. He finished third to Ultra in the Group 1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere on his only other outing that year, but began his three-year-old campaign by taking the Group 1 2000 Guineas at Newmarket, beating Massaat and Ribchester in style.
Awtaad beat him in the Group 1 Irish 2000 Guineas but that colt was only third when the pair met again in the Group 1 St James’s Palace Stakes where Galileo Gold beat The Gurkha by just over a length in the battle of the Guineas winners. When he met that Coolmore-owned star again at Goodwood six weeks later, in the Group 1 Sussex Stakes, the latter put up an improved performance to score by a neck.
Galileo Gold is the first foal out of Galicuix (by Galileo) and that half-sister to Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes and Group 1 Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp hero Goldream (by Oasis Dream) is a granddaughter of Cuixmala (by Highest Honor). That mare was unraced, she is the dam of the Group 2-placed multiple stakes winner Mont Rocher (by Caerleon), but more significant is that she is a half-sister to the brilliant Montjeu (by Sadler’s Wells). That prolific Group 1 star died in his teens but was one of the world’s premier sources of Derby horses, including Motivator, Authorized and Pour Moi, who are now multiple Group 1 sires.
Also, his half-sister Cumbres (by Kahyasi) is the dam of Group 1 Irish 1000 Guineas and Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes heroine Again (by Danehill Dancer) and the grandam of Group 1 Prix de la Foret winner and 2018 new sire Aclaim (by Acclamation).
All of this suggests that Galileo Gold will get his best winners in the six to 12-furlong range, including summer and autumn juveniles.
GALILEO GOLD (GB), Chesnut 2013. Jt 4th top rated 3yr old colt in Europe in 2016. Won five races, £960,886, from 6 furlongs to 1 mile, at 2 and 3 years including, QIPCO 2000 Guineas, Newmarket, Gr.1, St James’s Palace Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1, Qatar Vintage Stakes, Goodwood, Gr.2, also placed 2nd Qatar Sussex Stakes, Goodwood, Gr.1, Tattersalls Irish 2000 Guineas, Curragh, Gr.1, and 3rd Qatar Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere Grand Criterium Longchamp, Gr.1.
Retires to stud in 2018.
Stands at: Tally-Ho Stud, Mullingar, Co Westmeath, Ireland.
Contact: Tony O’Callaghan, Roger O’Callaghan or Henry O’Callaghan
Telephone: +353 (0)86 2424416 (Tony), +353 (0)87 9690629 (Roger) or +353 (0)87 6536776 (Henry)
Email: info@tallyhostud.com
Web: www.tallyhostud.com
Fee: €15,000
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