Andrew Caulfield, June 10-Australia (GB) Perhaps buyers need to remember those three PEDIGREE INSIGHTS chestnut Derby winners, plus the fact that Galileo=s B Y A N D R E W C A U L F I E L D long list of Group 1 winners also features the chestnut Cape Blanco (Irish Derby and champion turf male), Sans INVESTEC DERBY-G1, ,1,380,000, EPM, 6-7, 3yo, c/f, Frontieres (Irish St Leger), Nightime (Irish 1,000 12f 10yT, 2:33.63, gd. Guineas) and Allegretto (Prix Royal-Oak). At First Sight, 1--sAUSTRALIA (GB), 126, c, 3, by Galileo (Ire) the 2010 Derby runner-up, was another chestnut 1st Dam: Ouija Board (GB) (Ch. 3yo Filly, Ch. Older Galileo. Horse, 2x Ch. Turf Mare-US & 2x Horse of the Galileo is the product of a mating between Sadler=s Year-Eur, 2x Hwt. Older Mare at 11-14f-Eng, Wells, a dominant bay, and the Arc-winning Urban Sea. Hwt. Older Mare at 9.5-11f-Ire, MGISW-US & This chestnut daughter of Miswaki had five chestnuts Eng, G1SW-Ire & HK, G1SP-Fr & MG1SP-Jpn, among the six horses in her $6,312,552), by Cape Cross (Ire) first two generations. Even 2nd Dam: Selection Board (GB), by Welsh Pageant (Fr) so, chestnuts are 3rd Dam: Ouija (GB), by Silly Season considerably outnumbered by (525,000gns yrl >12 TATOCT). O-Derrick Smith, bays among Galileo=s Susan Magnier, Michael Tabor & Teo Ah Khing. progeny--by more than four B-Stanley Estate & Stud Company (GB). T-Aidan to one if his 2011 crop is O=Brien. J-Joseph O=Brien. ,782,598. Lifetime anything to go by. So, if you Record: GSW-Ire, 5-3-1-1, ,874,323. *1/2 to think you are seeing many Ouija Board after winning Voodoo Prince (GB) (Kingmambo), GSW-Aus & SP- more good bay winners by Eng, $237,195. Werk Nick Rating: A+++ *Triple Galileo than chestnuts, it is the Oaks Plus*. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree merely a reflection of the Racing Post Click for the Racing Post result, the brisnet.com PPs or brisnet.com chestnut=s comparative scarcity among his progeny. catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO, courtesy Racing UK. Buyers will probably need to remember this when It=s nearly 30 years since the British group Queen Frankel=s chestnut offspring come under the hammer. stunned the music and video worlds with Bohemian Incidentally, another chestnut Galileo to look forward to Rhapsody, but its operatic section is still imprinted on could be the good-looking yearling brother to Frankel my mind--especially the bit where they chanted: and Noble Mission. Galileo, Galileo, Of course the Epsom Classics didn=t just belong to Galileo, Galileo, Galileo. Huge credit must also go to Urban Sea, as it Galileo Figaro was her second Derby winner, Sea the Stars, whose Magnifico first crop was responsible for the unbeaten Oaks winner Well, the equine Galileo Taghrooda. Then there=s Cape Cross, who sired Sea the wasn=t born until 1998, but Stars as well as Ouija Board, the exceptional he has certainly proved international racemare who produced Australia. And magnifico and he has already don=t forget Sadler=s Wells. Australia is the seventh of notched up an Anglo-Irish his grandsons to have won the Derby in the last 10 sires= championship for each Australia years (and another of the 10 was out of a Sadler=s of his five name checks. A Wells mare). For good measure, Sadler=s Wells is the sixth championship in seven Racing Post photo broodmare sire of Oaks winner Taghrooda. Put another years looks very much in the way, the winners of both the Derby and the Oaks have cards now that the classically-bred Australia has a second generation which features the names of become his third winner of the Derby. The win boosted Sadler=s Wells, Urban Sea and Cape Cross, but in a Galileo=s prize-money for the year to more than double different order. that of his nearest pursuer. Also, the TDN=s 2014 To stick with Australia for the moment, his success is stallion tables show that Galileo leads the world=s yet another reminder that Galileo shines with mares stallions with 17 stakes winners, 10 of them at from the Danzig male line. Of course his exploits with group/graded level. Danehill mares are now legendary (Frankel=s brother Australia=s Derby-winning predecessors were New Noble Mission recently become this cross=s ninth Group Approach and Ruler of the World. Interestingly, all three 1 winner), but he also shines with descendants of of Galileo=s Derby winners are chestnut, but I suspect Green Desert, the other mainstay of the Danzig line in that vendors would still prefer to have a bay Galileo to Europe. Galileo=s three group winners from his first 15 sell. foals of racing age out of Green Desert mares include The 525,000gns paid for Australia at Tattersalls Was, winner of the 2012 Oaks. Now Galileo=s progeny made him only the 12th-highest priced Galileo yearling out of granddaughters of Green Desert are beginning to of 2012 and all 11 which sold for more, including the make their mark. In addition to Australia, out of a Cape 2.5-million guineas Hydrogen, were bays. Cross mare, there is Forest Storm, a Galileo mare with a dam by Desert Prince. Forest Storm is the dam of Night of Thunder, the Australia provides the perfect answer to those who exciting Dubawi colt who conquered the future Classic believe that mating an Oaks winner to a Derby winner winners Kingman and Australia in the 2000 Guineas. is a recipe for too much stamina. In the past we have At the age of 20, Cape Cross has long been one of seen the triple Classic winner Meld produce the Derby Ireland=s higher-priced stallions, but it wasn=t always so. winner Charlottown to Charlottesville, a winner of the He spent his first four seasons at fees around the Prix du Jockey-Club and Grand Prix de Paris in the days i10,000 mark, before sending his fee climbing by before their distances were reduced. Then there was becoming champion sire of 2-year-olds with his first the promoted Oaks winner Snow Bride, who produced crop. This early success could have suggested that Lammtarra to Triple Crown hero Nijinsky. Several Oaks Cape Cross--a Group 1-winning miler--was destined to runners-up have also produced post-war Derby winners, make his mark principally as a sire of speedy, including Windmill Girl (who produced Blakeney and quick-maturing performers. The truth, though, is that Morston to winners of the St Leger), Furioso (Teenoso) his biggest gift to Northern Hemisphere racing has and Slightly Dangerous (Commander In Chief). come in the form of two magnificent performers at up Australia is the latest in a very long line of Classic to a 1 1/2 miles--Sea the Stars and Ouija Board. winners bred by the various Earls of Derby. The female Between them, they collected 13 Group 1 successes, line came into the Derby studs thanks to an exchange including the 2000 Guineas, Derby, Oaks and Irish between the 18th Earl and Madame Couturie in which Oaks. Sea the Stars also triumphed in the Arc, a race in Amboyna, a half-sister to the outstanding stayer which Ouija Board had finished third in 2004, while Alycidon, was swapped for Gradisca, the Derby Ouija Board twice won the Breeders= Cup F/M Turf. winner=s fifth dam. Ouija Board also landed a pair of Group 1s over 1 1/4 The very well-related Gradisca produced the 1954 miles. This suggests that Australia will have no Prix de Diane winner Tahiti and her legacy also includes problems dropping back to that distance, which the Australian superstar Kingston Town, who had her breeders often prefer to see on a stallion=s resume as his third dam, and Teleprompter, winner of the G2 rather than the traditional Classic distance of 1 1/2 miles. Queen Elizabeth II S. and GI Arlington Million. This illogical prejudice against 1 1/2-mile performance Australia=s second dam is Teleprompter=s sister means that breeders lucky enough to own an Oaks Selection Board. winner tend to look lower down the distance scale Moving on to Taghrooda, surely few people dared when selecting stallions. hope that Sea the Stars= first crop would come close to The stallions recently visited by Oaks winners include matching Galileo=s outstanding first crop, which the sprinters Oasis Dream, War Front and Fastnet Rock, featured Sixties Icon (St Leger), Nightime (Irish 1000 the speedy Mr. Greeley and the top milers Kingmambo, Guineas), Red Rocks (Breeders= Cup Turf) and Allegretto Dubawi, Rock of Gibraltar, Shamardal and Dansili. (Prix Royal-Oak). However, the task may not be beyond Fortunately they have been prepared to make an 2009=s 2000 Guineas, Derby and Arc winner, who has exception for Galileo and Lordship Stud was rewarded made a very encouraging start. with the St Leger winner Sixties Icon when Love Divine He already has five group winners to his credit, visited him. Ramruma, Sariska and Light Shift are other including the unbeaten Taghrooda and a leading Oaks winners with youngsters by Galileo. A couple Deutsches Derby candidate in Sea the Moon. Another have also visited Galileo=s best son Frankel, who never of his group winners, Vazira, was second in the G1 Prix ventured as far as 1 1/2 miles.