
ASCOT
28 July 2001 – Near the winning post!
Galileo
- Fantastic Light
or the duo of the season in Europe, that has just published a
new twinning at the arrival of the Irish Champion Stakes (group
l, 2000 metres) in Leopardstown, but in the opposite order of
the one noticed during the King Georges And Queen Elisabeth
Stakes (group l, 2400 metres), in July, in Ascot (our
photography).
Galileo
certainly intended to take his revenge at the time of their next
confrontation, on the occasion of the Breeders'Cup, in the
United States 3 months later.
But the
Fantastic Light managers that decided with great wisdom
for the Breeders'Cup Turf despite a half lower allowance to the
winner, prevent the duel from taking place, and Galileo did not succeed in showing off to
advantage on the dirt of Belmont Park, arriving 6th
of Tiznow.
Friday 30 November 2001 at the Tattersalls
auctions of Newmarket, a own sister of
Galileo (Sadler's
Wells - Urban Sea)
has been sold for 1,1 million guineas (2 millions USD) to
John Magnier and his Coolmore stud farm.