Galileo's next new Group 1 winners? Six who could extend the sire's world record

Coolmore's perennial champion sire Galileo on Saturday supplied a record-breaking 85th Group/Grade 1 winner when daughter Peaceful took the Irish 1,000 Guineas.

The feat had been on the cards for a number of years, and now the question is how much further he can go, making the task of matching his achievement even tougher for the great sires of the future.

It even looks likely that Galileo could hit a century of elite winners in the next few years, with plenty of promising three- and four-year-olds representing him, and more brilliant books of mares covered in the last four seasons.

Here we take a look at some of his progeny who could become his next new Group 1 scorers in the near future.

Lancaster House
4yo b c ex Quiet Oasis (Oasis Dream)

Progressive at three last year, with three wins from four starts, Lancaster House returned to action on Saturday with a dominating victory in the Group 3 Gladness Stakes at the Curragh – a rare older Group winner for Galileo at less than a mile and indeed a first scorer for the sire in the seven-furlong race.

Aidan O'Brien's charge, bred by Barronstown Stud out of the Grade 2-winning Oasis Dream mare Quiet Oasis, looks well capable of making waves in Group 1 company at around a mile this season.

Magic Attitude
3yo b f ex Margot Did (Exceed And Excel)

The Fabrice Chappet-trained filly was the first to have a crack at giving her sire an 86th top-level winner, starting third favourite for Sunday's Prix Saint Alary. She ran well but neither she nor favourite Solsticia could cope with Tawkeel, who beat Magic Attitude by five lengths, with Solsticia a close third.

Having won a Group 3 at Longchamp on her return to action in the silks of Haras du Saubouas, Magic Attitude sported the colours of Roy Jackson on Sunday, and her new owner undoubtedly has a high-class filly on his books.

Being out of Nunthorpe winner Margot Did, it's possible that the ten furlongs of Sunday's test at Chantilly was a bridge too far, and that a better opportunity of grabbing a Group 1 will come at up to a mile. It is conceivable, too, that it could come overseas.

Mogul
3yo b c ex Shastye (Danehill)

The Ballydoyle colt, successful at Group 2 level and fourth to Kameko in the Vertem Futurity last year, is long odds-on to emulate his brother Japan with victory in the King Edward VII Stakes at Royal Ascot on Tuesday.

Connections will be hoping success in the race is a stepping stone to the Derby, a race in which Japan was a fast-finishing third.

Mogul, a 3,400,000gns purchase by Coolmore from breeder Newsells Park Stud at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, is out of wonder producer Shastye and is thus a brother to another royal meeting winner in Sir Isaac Newton, as well as Middleton Stakes scorer and Oaks runner-up Secret Gesture.

Nayef Road (left): the only winner this year engaged in the Gold CupCredit: John Grossick (racingpost.com/photos)

Nayef Road
4yo ch c ex Rose Bonheur (Danehill Dancer)

The Mark Johnston-trained four-year-old was a snip for a Galileo when bought by Rabbah Bloodstock for just 100,000gns at Book 1. That price is a fraction of the sire's reputed covering fee and less than a quarter of his yearling average in 2016.

Prospective bidders at Park Paddocks should have known better to disregard a Galileo, and the colt – a son of dual Listed winner Rose Bonheur, to boot – has now won more than £300,000 in prize-money.

Nayef Road is engaged in the Gold Cup on Thursday and although he has a considerable gap to bridge with market leaders Stradivarius and Technician in terms of ratings, he is the only runner in the nine-strong field to have won in 2020, having taken the Sagaro Stakes at Newcastle.

Nobel Prize
3yo b c ex Hveger (Danehill)

Like Mogul, Nobel Prize is also an O'Brien-trained colt bidding this week to become a third Royal Ascot winner for his dam. In his case, he is out of the Australian-bred Danehill mare Hveger, making him a brother to Highland Reel, whose seven Group 1 victories included the Prince of Wales's Stakes, and Idaho, successful in the Hardwicke Stakes.

Nobel Prize won a Naas maiden in November and is set to line up for the Queen's Vase on Friday, a race won by future Group 1 stars Estimate, Hartnell, Kew Gardens, Leading Light and Stradivarius in the past decade.

Vatican City
3yo ch ex You'resothrilling (Storm Cat)

A step up in trip surely beckons for Vatican City after the O'Brien-trained colt stuck on well into second behind Siskin in the Irish 2,000 Guineas on Friday.

He ranks as one of the best bred three-year-olds anywhere in the world, as a brother to Group 1 winners Gleneagles, Happily and Marvellous and Grade 1-placed pair Coolmore and Taj Mahal. He is out of Cherry Hinton Stakes winner You'resothrilling, a Storm Cat sister to Giant's Causeway and to the dam of Decorated Knight.

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