Galileo Gold
| Galileo Gold | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Paco Boy |
| Grandsire | Sadlers Wells |
| Dam | Galicuix |
| Damsire | Galileo |
| Sex | Colt |
| Foaled | 31 January 2013 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Colour | Chestnut |
| Breeder | Brian O'Rourke |
| Owner | Al Shaqab Racing |
| Trainer | Hugo Palmer |
| Record | 11: 5-3-1 |
| Earnings | £951,471 |
| Major wins | |
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Vintage Stakes (2015) 2000 Guineas (2016) St James's Palace Stakes (2016) |
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Galileo Gold (foaled 31 January 2013) is a British Thoroughbred racehorse. As a two-year-old he won the Vintage Stakes and finished third in the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere. On his three-year-old debut he won the classic 2000 Guineas and went on to finish second in the Irish 2,000 Guineas before winning the St James's Palace Stakes.
Galileo Gold is a flaxen chestnut colt with a white star and two white socks bred in England by Brian O'Rourke. He is from the second crop of foals sired by the miler Paco Boy whose wins included the Prix de la Forêt, Queen Anne Stakes and Lockinge Stakes. Prior to Galileo Gold, the best of his offspring had been Peacock (Fairway Stakes) and the sprint handicapper Maljaa. Galileo Gold's dam Galicuix was virtually useless as a racehorse, finishing last in both of her races. She is however, a half-sister of the leading sprinter Goldream and a great-granddaughter of the French broodmare Floripedes who was the dam of Montjeu and the grand-dam of Again.
In September 2014 the yearling was auctioned at the Tattersalls Ireland sale and sold for €33,000 to the bloodstock agent Amanda Skiffington. The colt entered the ownership of C J Murfitt and was sent into training with Hugo Palmer at Newmarket, Suffolk.
Galileo Gold made his racecourse debut on 30 May 2015 when he started at odds of 6/1 in a six furlong maiden race at York Racecourse. He finished strongly to take second place, two and three quarter lengths behind the winner Age of Empire. Ten days later at Salisbury Racecourse, the colt started odds-on favourite for a similar event and recorded his first success, winning easily from Zeeoneandonly and ten others. Galileo Gold was then moved up in distance for a race over seven furlongs at Haydock Park on 2 July. Ridden as on his two previous races by Martin Harley he started the 13/8 favourite and won by one and a half length from the John Gosden-trained Hayadh.
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