Galileo Chrome
| Galileo Chrome | |
|---|---|
 Racing silks of Galileo Chrome Partnership | |
| Sire | Australia |
| Grandsire | Galileo |
| Dam | Curious Mind |
| Damsire | Dansili |
| Sex | Colt |
| Foaled | 28 April 2017[1] |
| Country | Ireland |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Mohamed Ali Meddeb |
| Owner | Mohamed Ali Meddeb Galileo Chrome Partnership |
| Trainer | Joseph Patrick O'Brien |
| Record | 5: 4-0-0 |
| Earnings | £241,066 |
| Major wins | |
| Yeats Stakes (2020) St Leger Stakes (2020) | |
Galileo Chrome (foaled 28 April 2017) is an Irish
racehorse. He finished unplaced on his only start as a juvenile in 2019 but made rapid improvement in the following year, winning his first four races including the Yeats Stakes and the St Leger Stakes
Background
Galileo Chrome is a bay horse with no white
reserve price.[1] He was sent into training with Joseph Patrick O'Brien at Owning Hill, County Kilkenny
.
He was from the second crop of foals sired by
Racing career
2019: two-year-old season
Galileo Chrome began his racing career in a
33/1 and finished fifth of the thirteen runners, eight and a half lengths behind the winner Celtic High King.[5]
2020: three-year-old season
The 2020 flat racing season in Great Britain and Ireland was disrupted by the
Listed Yeats Stakes over thirteen furlongs at Naas Racecourse on 29 August and started the 2/1 favourite in a seven-runner field. Ridden by Crosse (who was no longer an apprentice), he went to the front inside the last quarter mile and recorded another easy win, coming hime five lengths clear of Emperor of the Sun.[8]
The 244th running of the St Leger took place
behind closed doors over 14+1⁄2 furlongs at Doncaster Racecourse on 12 September and Galileo Chrome, ridden by Tom Marquand, started the 4/1 third favourite behind the Irish Derby winner Santiago and Hukum (Geoffrey Freer Stakes) while the best fancied of the other eight contenders were Pyledriver (Great Voltigeur Stakes) and Subjectivist (March Stakes). Marquand had been scheduled to ride English King until that colt was redirected to contest the Grand Prix de Paris on the following day, but when Crosse was forced to self-isolate after a positive COVID test he stepped in to take the ride.[9] After racing in mid-division, Galileo Chrome gained the advantage approaching the final furlong and held off a sustained challenge from Berkshire Rocco to win by a neck.[10]
Pedigree
| Sire Australia (IRE) 2011 |
Galileo (IRE) 1998 |
Sadler's Wells (USA) | Northern Dancer (CAN) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fairy Bridge | |||
| Urban Sea (USA) | Miswaki | ||
| Allegretta (GB) | |||
Ouija Board (GB)2001 |
Cape Cross (IRE) | Green Desert (USA) | |
| Park Appeal | |||
| Selection Board | Welsh Pageant (FR) | ||
| Ouija | |||
| Dam Curious Mind (GB) 2010 |
Dansili (GB) 1996 |
Danehill (USA) | Danzig |
| Razyana | |||
| Hasili (IRE) | Kahyasi | ||
| Kerali (GB) | |||
| Intrigued (GB) 2002 |
Darshaan | Shirley Heights
| |
| Delsy (FR) | |||
| Last Second (IRE) | Alzao (USA) | ||
| Alruccaba (Family: 9-c)[4] |
References
- ^ a b c "Galileo Chrome pedigree". Equineline.
- ^ "Australia - Race Record & Form". Racing Post.
- ^ "Curious Mind - Race Record & Form". Racing Post.
- ^ a b "Crab Mare - Family 9-c". Thoroughbred Bloodlines. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
- ^ "Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden result". Racing Post. 19 October 2019.
- ^ "Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden result". Racing Post. 12 June 2020.
- ^ "Leopardstown Members Race result". Racing Post. 31 July 2020.
- ^ "Yeats Stakes result". Racing Post. 29 August 2020.
- ^ Wood, Greg (12 September 2020). "Replacement jockey Tom Marquand wins St Leger on Galileo Chrome" – via The Guardian.
- ^ "St Leger result". Racing Post. 12 September 2020.
External links
- Career 1-2-3 Colour Chart – Galileo Chrome