Galileo Gold to relocate from Ireland to Haras de Bouquetot

Al Shaqab Racing’s Galileo Gold, who stood his first five seasons at co-owners’ Tally-Ho Stud in Ireland, is due to relocate to France for the 2023 breeding season.

The 2,000 Guineas and St James's Palace Stakes winner has already produced a top-level talent in the Phoenix Stakes scorer Ebro River as well as Prix Marcel Boussac-placed Oscula, also a multiple Group winner. He has has covered his biggest book of 163 mares to date at Tally-Ho Stud in 2022.

Haras de Bouquetot’s stud manager Benoit Jeffroy said: "We’re delighted to be welcoming Group 1 sire Galileo Gold in France in a joint venture with Tally-Ho Stud, who have done a fantastic job with giving him the best chances for his start at stud.

"Galileo Gold has already shown his abilities as a valuable sire of precocious horses, with over 10 per cent black type horses to runners with his first crop of two-year-olds, and with the numbers he’s covered this past year we can only hope for more to come.

"With Toronado being so successful in Australia, we took the decision to keep him there and we’re confident that Galileo Gold will be as good a value as Toronado was to local breeders."

A fee for the 2023 season will be announced at a later date.

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