SUNDAY, 11 JULY 2021 NO MORE WAITING FOR STARMAN BREED-SHAPING SIRE by Tom Frary GALILEO DIES With the weather staying clear ahead of Saturday=s G1 Darley July Cup at Newmarket, David Ward=s Starman (GB) (Dutch Art {GB}) had his day to deliver on all the abundant promise he had shown so far in his brief career in a strong renewal. Successful in the May 12 G2 Duke of York S. over this six-furlong trip, the 9-2 second favourite was buried in mid-division of the group racing stand=s side throughout the early stages with the pace rapid up ahead. Staying on powerfully up the rising ground to collar the far-rail runner Art Power (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) in the final 50 yards, he hit the line with 1 1/4 lengths to spare over the 7-2 favourite Dragon Symbol (GB) (Cable Bay {Ire}), with last year=s winner Oxted (GB) (Mayson {GB}) a short head behind in third as the stand=s-side contingent swallowed up the game long-time leader Art Power in the dying strides. Jockey Tom Marquand was full of praise for the winner. AThis lad is as close to a racecar as you can get,@ he said. AHe was pretty exceptional and you Galileo, 1998 - 2021 | Coolmore have to put him in the top tier of European sprinting after that-- it was an incredible performance.@ Cont. p10 By Kelsey Riley Galileo (Ire) (Sadler=s WellsBUrban Sea, by Miswaki), the brilliant winner of the Derby, Irish Derby and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth S. and revolutionary 12-time British and Irish champion sire, was euthanized on Saturday at Coolmore Stud at the age of 23 after battling a chronic, non-responsive, debilitating injury to the left fore foot. Galileo is the sire of 92 worldwide Group 1 winnersBmore than any other stallion in history and with the latest poignantly coming on Saturday evening courtesy of Bolshoi Ballet (Ire) in the Belmont DerbyBand he has arguably had a greater influence on the breed than any sire since his own grandsire Northern Dancer. Galileo has sired 338 stakes winners and 228 group winners, for earnings of over $285-million and counting. Galileo=s flagbearers have included Frankel (GB), who many consider the greatest racehorse of all time; the $10-million Starman winning Saturday's G1 Darley July Cup | racingfotos.com globetrotter Highland Reel (Ire); seven-time Group 1 winning- fillies Magical (Ire) and Minding (Ire); and a record five Derby winners, including the successful sire New Approach (Ire). IN TDN AMERICA TODAY AIt is a very sad day, but we all feel incredibly fortunate to have BOLSHOI BALLET TAKES GI BELMONT DERBY had Galileo here at Coolmore,@ said Coolmore=s John Magnier, Galileo's Bolshoi Ballet (Ire) comes from off the pace to take who co-bred and raced Galileo and stood him at stud. AI would Saturday's GI Belmont Derby. Click or tap here to go straight to like to thank the dedicated people who looked after him so well TDN America. all along the way. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 23 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • 11 JULY 2021 Galileo Dies, cont. from p1 Magnier added, AHe was always a very special horse to us and John Magnier=s wife Susan is known for adorning Coolmore=s he was the first Derby winner we had in Ballydoyle in the post M bluebloods with the most discerning of names, and her choice V O=Brien era. I would also like to thank Aidan and his team for for the Sadler=s Wells/Urban Sea colt indicated the stratospheric the brilliant job they did with hopes that they harbored for him. The effect he is having on him: he was named in honour the breed through his sons and of the famed Italian astronomer daughters will be a lasting Galileo Galilei, whose legacy and his phenomenal discoveries revolutionized his success really is field. unprecedented.@ Galileo was placed into Bred by David Tsui and training with the then 31-year- Coolmore under the Orpendale old Aidan O=Brien during the banner, Galileo entered the fledgling trainer=s fourth season world on Mar. 29, 1998 with a at Ballydoyle, he having taken heavy burden of expectation over from the legendary on his shoulders, being Vincent O=Brien in 1996. In an impeccably bred as he was. By Galileo in March, 2021 | Coolmore interview with the TDN=s Emma the Irish 2000 Guineas, Eclipse S. and Champion S. victor Sadler=s Berry earlier this year, O=Brien recalled the aura surrounding Wells--who had just earned his sixth straight champion sire title Galileo in his early days. in a run that would eventually extend to 13 consecutive and a AUnusually with him, before he came to Ballydoyle the world record 14 overall--Galileo was the third foal out of Urban Sea, was thought of him and I suppose that was because he is out of who was already famed as a Prix de l=Arc de Triomphe victress an Arc winner and he's by Sadler's Wells,@ the trainer said. ASue but who would go on to outdo herself as a broodmare. named him Galileo very early.@ TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 23 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • 11 JULY 2021 Galileo=s debut was delayed by a cough plaguing the O=Brien Galileo made two starts in the run up to the Derby in the yard that season, but he eventually made his keenly anticipated spring of his 3-year-old campaign, starting favourite both times first trip to post at Leopardstown on Oct. 28, 2000 under the and winning the Listed Ballysax S. over stablemate and eventual ownership of Sue Magnier, going off the even-money favourite G1 St Leger scorer Milan (GB) (Sadler=s Wells) and subsequent under Mick Kinane and obliging four-time G1 Irish St Leger with a 14-length victory over victor Vinnie Roe (Ire) heavy ground. (Definite Article {GB}), and the Recalling what set Galileo G3 Derrinstown Stud Derby apart from the many champions Trial with Michael Tabor he has trained, and what star joining the ownership line. power he has imparted to his The stage was set at Epsom numerous high-class progeny, on June 9, 2001 for a O=Brien said, AHe didn't walk, he showdown with Lord prowled. It was a very unusual Weinstock=s G1 2000 Guineas thing with a horse. Horses winner Golan (Ire) (Spectrum usually come up to walk but {Ire}), and those two were when he used to walk, he would dispatched as 11-4 joint get down to walk. When you'd Galileo and Mick Kinane winning the Derby | racingfotos.com favourites. Poised two lengths ask him to go forward the first off the lead and in the clear in thing that would go out and down was his head. Most horses the three path under Mick Kinane with Golan racing on his when you ask them to go forward, up goes the head and they heels, Galileo loomed ominously rounding Tattenham Corner. walk up, but he used to walk forward and walk out. His walking Put to a drive by Kinane upon straightening, Galileo inhaled the stride was so long and there was so much power from his front front-running Mr. Combustible (Ire) and Perfect Sunday in a and back.@ matter of strides and was never in danger thereafter, drawing FEED THE DIFFERENCE For that extra bit of STARMAN backup and support FEED THE July Cup Stakes, Group 1 while training and DIFFERENCE breeding your Champions, Saracen are here to help. Congratulations to trainer Ed Walker, Owner/Breeders David & Sue Ward, & to Whatton Manor Stud, Trainers & Breeders where he was born and raised. know they can rely on us. Call a member of our dedicated specialist Thoroughbred team. 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Galileo headed to Ascot in late It was also an important first for July for the King George VI and Sadler=s Wells, who by that stage Queen Elizabeth S. and a date had collected 10 champion sire against elders, chief among titles and counted four Oaks them Godolphin=s four-time winners and two 2000 Guineas Grade/Group 1-winning 5-year- winners among his honor roll, but old Fantastic Light (Rahy). who had not yet had a son take Sitting a similar trip to the Irish the Derby. Sadler=s Wells would Derby, Galileo got first run on double up the following season Fantastic Light in the lane and, with the O=Brien-trained High despite his rival soon escaping Chaparral (Ire). from a pocket and coming to Galileo was, naturally, made the eyeball him in the final quarter- heavy favourite for the G1 Irish mile, turned him back to post a Derby off his scintillating Epsom two-length victory.