IF a stallion’s legacy is to endure it is important that he gets sons and grandsons who will carry on his line. The great Sadler’s Wells did it, just as his father Northern Dancer (by Neartic) did before him, and now his phenomenal son Galileo appears to be doing the same.

The first of the Galileo stallions have six-year-olds and his sons with first-crop juveniles include one who is already off the mark with his first winner, as of Monday night.

Ballyhane Stud’s Group 1 Irish 2000 Guineas scorer Roderic O’Connor is responsible for Great Page, a Richard Hannon-trained filly who made a winning debut over five furlongs at Windsor on Monday afternoon.

The most senior of the Galileo stallions include Kildangan Stud’s Teofilo, and with seven Group 1 winners to his name, including the tragically ill-fated Irish Derby hero Trading Leather, he is well-established as a leading sire.

Last Sunday he notched up a big-race double at the Curragh with the Listed Alleged Stakes victory of his Group 1-winning son Parish Hall preceded by the addition of his 36th individual stakes winner.

Flight Risk looked like a potential blacktype scorer when finishing fourth in the Group 3 Phoenix Sprint Stakes over six furlongs at the same venue in August, 11 months after his only prior outing, which was another fourth place spot, this time in the Listed Blenheim Stakes over the course and distance.

He won his maiden three starts later, over an extended mile at Cork, but then disappointed over seven furlongs at Leopardstown and, on his seasonal reappearance in April, in a six-furlong listed contest back at the former venue.

It was to be expected, given his more recent form, that he would be among the outsiders for the Group 3 Big Bad Bob Gladness Stakes last Sunday although, to me at least, his one and a quarter length victory in that seven-furlong contest was not as surprising as his 50/1 odds might suggest.

Flight Risk is trained by Jim Bolger, he was bred by James Hanly, and he is one of four blacktype earners out of the speedy Raghida (by Nordico), a mare who was placed in the Group 3 Curragh Stakes and in the Group 3 Molecomb Stakes as a juvenile.

Her son Rock Moss (by Rock Of Gibraltar), whom Bolger also trained, won the Scurry Handicap at the Curragh in 2008, just under three months before he was runner-up in the Group 3 Renaissance Stakes at the same venue.

Maqaraat (by Dalakhani) was runner-up in the Group 3 Dee Stakes at Chester four years ago, ran away with a Haydock maiden shortly afterwards and is since a winner at eight and 10 furlongs at Jebel Ali.

The best and most prolific of the mare’s string of successful progeny is Marionnaud (by Spectrum) whom Bolger trained to win seven times including the Group 3 Derrinstown Stud 1000 Guineas Trial at Leopardstown and the Group 3 Concorde Stakes at Tipperary.

She also won the Listed Silken Glider Stakes as a juvenile, the Birdcatcher Nursery at Naas and the afore mentioned Scurry Handicap at the Curragh.

One could say that it was to be expected that Raghida would excel at stud as that is a strong family trait and she represents one of the most prolific winner-producing lines in Ireland.

Raghida’s tally of seven winners is a little short of that of her dam La Meilleure (by Lord Gayle) as that pattern-placed stakes winning sprinter came up with 10 winners from 13 foals, four of them blacktype scorers and one of them being the juvenile Group 1 winner and Irish Derby runner-up Sholokhov (by Sadler’s Wells).

He is a successful stallion, his best brother is the Group 3-placed stakes-winning gelding Napper Tandy (by Spectrum), and both his stakes-winning sisters have made an impact at stud.

Zavaleta (by Kahyasi) won the Listed Athasi Stakes and the Listed Derrinstown Stud 1000 Guineas Trial, and her nine successful progeny include the blacktype-placed pair Benicio (by Spectrum) and Simonetta (by Lil’s Boy), the Group 3-placed Daneleta (by Danehill) and that filly’s talented full-sister Danelissima.

The latter won the Group 3 Noblesse Stakes at Naas, she was third in the Group 2 Lancashire Oaks at Haydock, and she is the dam of the Group 2 placed Fergus McIver (by Sadler’s Wells).

Daneleta is, of course, the dam of the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes winner and Ballylinch Stud stallion Intense Focus (by Giant’s Causeway), sire of the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes winner and recent Group 3 Abernant Stakes scorer Astaire in his first crop.

La Meilleure’s other notable daughter is Affianced (by Erins Isle). She won the Listed Debutante Stakes and was runner-up in the Group 3 Blandford Stakes before going on to produce a trio of blacktype winners at stud.

Carraiglawn (by Rock Of Gibraltar) won the Listed Silver Stakes, Heliostatic (by Galileo) won the Group 3 Meld Stakes and has sired a pattern winner, and Soldier Of Fortune (by Galileo) won both the Group 1 Irish Derby and the Group 1 Coronation Cup.

All of this is more than enough to indicate just how well-bred Flight Risk is, and to suggest that his recent pattern victory may attract some interest in him as a prospective stallion.

This is, however, just the first two generations of his pedigree, and as his fifth dam is the classic-placed Fanghorn (by Crocket), he comes from a branch of the family whose Group/Grade 1 stars include Double Form (by Habitat), Eva Luna (by Double Schwartz), Kitten’s Dumplings (by Kitten’s Joy) and Loch Garman (by Teofilo), in addition to a long list of pattern and stakes winners and classic-placed horses.