Goodwood set to host debut of a Galileo sister to three Group 1 winners

Glorious Goodwood on Thursday will host the racecourse debut of a two-year-old filly who is a full-sister to not one, not two, but three individual Group 1 winners.

Coolmore homebred Salsa – who has been declared for the Markel Insurance British EBF Maiden Fillies' Stakes over 7f at 4.45 – is by Galileo out of Beauty Is Truth, a speedy daughter of Pivotal who won the Group 2 Prix du Gros-Chene over the minimum distance and the Group 3 Prix d'Arenberg over half a furlong further.

Racecard: Goodwood, Thursday 4.45

Beauty Is Truth has produced five winners headed by that trio, all by Galileo, who have struck at the highest level.

They are Hermosa, who completed the Anglo-Irish 1,000 Guineas double this spring and is declared for the Nassau Stakes at Goodwood at 3.35; Hydrangea, triumphant in the Matron and British Champions Fillies and Mares Stakes at three in 2017; and The United States, who landed the Ranvet Stakes in Australia aged six in 2016 and is now a stallion at Moutonshoek Stud in South Africa.

The dam is also responsible for Fire Lily, a daughter of Dansili who was a three-time Group 3 winner and twice finished second in Group 1 company, in the Moyglare Stud Stakes and Prix Marcel Boussac.

Beauty Is Truth, who has a yearling filly by Galileo, is a half-sister to Poule d'Essai des Pouliches runner-up and Prix de Diane third Glorious Sight and hails from the outstanding Kilfrush Stud family of Immortal Verse, Last Tycoon and Valentine Waltz.

Ryan Moore takes the ride on the wonderfully bred Salsa for Aidan O'Brien.

Among their rivals in the Goodwood maiden who also have claims on breeding are fellow newcomers Good Reason and Ruby Power.

Good Reason, trained by Saeed Bin Suroor for Godolphin, is by Dark Angel out of Sander Camillo, a winner of the Albany and Cherry Hinton Stakes sold to Sheikh Mohammed's operation for 3,200,000gns at the end of her racing career but subsequently a little disappointing as a broodmare. She has only a handful of non black-type winners to her name despite having been mated with some of the world's best stallions.

Ruby Power, trained by Richard Hannon for King Power Racing after being bought by Alastair Donald as a yearling for 150,000gns, is a Kodiac half-brother to Jacqueline Quest, first past the post in the 1,000 Guineas in 2010 but demoted to runner-up behind Special Duty. Jacqueline Quest is the dam of last year's Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf winner Line Of Duty.

Previous winners of the Goodwood fillies' maiden include subsequent Group 1 heroines Amazing Maria and Rhododendron.

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