Coolmore Ireland Breeders' Handbook 2019

out of mares by ROCK OF GIBRALTAR , HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR , DESERT KING and MOZART and Galileo has two Group winners from three foals out of mares by EXCEED AND EXCEL . Australia’s impressive winners out of granddaughters of DANEHILL include Almania, War Eagle and Kosciuszko while Brassica has a grandam by DANSILI . Galileo has an excellent record with ANABAA mares, siring Capri and Lush Lashes. Although Australia is out of a brilliant daughter of Cape Cross, this doesn’t rule out mares with GREEN DESERT blood. His first Group winner the Gr.2 winner Beyond Reason, has a second dam by GREEN DESERT and is therefore inbred 4x3. INVINCIBLE SPIRIT and DESERT PRINCE appear in the pedigrees of other good winners by Australia. Daughters of GREEN DESERT have produced 14% Group winners to Galileo. The CHIEF’S CROWN branch of the DANZIG line comes into the picture. Teofilo sired Irish St Leger winner Voleuse de Coeurs and Irish Derby winner Trading Leather from mares by GRAND LODGE and his son SINNDAR . Galileo now has 11 Group/Graded winners from 58 foals out of daughters of STORM CAT (22 per cent) and no fewer than eight of them are Gr.1 winners (14%). Galileo also sired the classic-winning Seventh Heaven from a mare by Storm Cat’s grandson JOHANNESBURG . Teofilo, another champion son of Galileo, sired a Gr.1 winner from a daughter of GIANT’S CAUSEWAY . Another son of Galileo sired the brilliant Enable from a SADLER’S WELLS mare and Teofilo sired the Dewhurst Stakes winner Parish Hall from a MONTJEU mare. This opens the door to close inbreeding to SADLER’S WELLS . Frankel has three Group winners inbred to SADLER’S WELLS . Galileo has excellent results with the NUREYEV line, including siring eight Group winners headed by Gr.1 winners Rhododendron, Hydrangea and The United States from 31 foals out of PIVOTAL mares (19 per cent). Frankel is also shaping up well with PIVOTAL mares, notably siring the top-class Cracksman. New Approach sired the Oaks winner Talent from a PEINTRE CELEBRE mare. Galileo also has Gr.1 winners out of daughters of THEATRICAL and STRAVINSKY . Australia should be a natural for the MILL REEF line. Galileo has sired Gr.1 winners from three generations of descendants from Mill Reef. Altogether Galileo has ten Group winners out of DARSHAAN mares, this equates to 15% stakes winners. He also has 23% stakes winners with Darshaan’s son MARK OF ESTEEM . Galileo is excelling with the ROBERTO line, notably siring Nathaniel, Great Heavens and Seville from daughters of SILVER HAWK . He has 45% stakes winners from SILVER HAWK mares. He has also sired Group winners from daughters of DYNAFORMER , KRIS S. LEAR FAN , RED RANSOM , DR FONG , SRI PEKAN and INTIKHAB . His partnership with INTIKHAB is proving tremendously effective, with four Group winners from ten foals, including Arc winner Found. Galileo sired the Gr.1 winner Galikova from a BLUSHING GROOM mare, while RAINBOW QUEST sired the dam of Teofilo’s Gr.1 winner Quest For More and the second dams of Frankel, Noble Mission and Curvy; ARAZI sired the second dam of Lush Lashes and RAHY sired the second dams of Gr.1 winners Decorated Knight, Marvellous, Gleneagles, Happily and Deauville. Galileo’s high-class daughters Ballydoyle, Misty For Me and Tapestry have second dams by MR PROSPECTOR . Galileo’s top-class colts Ulysses and Ruler Of The World have dams by KINGMAMBO and his top stayer Order of St George has a dam by GONE WEST . RAVEN’S PASS sired the dam of Australia’s €475,000 2018 yearling while his son Dark Lochnagar has a dam by KINGMAMBO . Australia is likely to benefit from mares with AHONOORA blood as Galileo’s classic winners New Approach and Was respectively have a dam and a second dam by this top sprinter. Galileo also has three Group winners from mares by INDIAN RIDGE , and Gr.1 winner Curvy is from an INCHINOR mare. Australia already has Gr.1 performer Sydney Opera House with a grandam by AHONOORA . Australia sired Broome, runner-up in the Gr.1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere, from a daughter of ACCLAMATION , also damsire of a 325,000gns 2018 yearling. The SHARPEN UP line is another guaranteed to suit Australia, as it has produced a classic winner to his sire Galileo and has enjoyed plenty of success with several other sons of Sadler’s Wells.

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