GALILEO (Sadler’s Wells) will continue to enjoy success as a sire of winners, his sons and grandsons will feature as prolific stallions, and his daughters will be influential too. So far Galileo has had 93 Group/Grade 1 winners of 193 top-level races, and the question surely is what horse will be number 94?

Aidan O’Brien and the Ballydoyle team are assembling a high-class team of classic challengers, and three of them, all by Galileo, are worth a special mention. The two colts are homebreds, by Peter Brant’s White Birch and by Coolmore, while the filly, bred by David and Diane Nagle’s Barronstown Stud, was bought by MV Magnier as a yearling for 2,800,000gns – a great price for a first foal.