Churchill Dewhurst win reinforces Galileo domination

Super sire supplies fourth top-level winner in eight days

Churchill: fourth son of Galileo to land the Dewhurst Stakes

Galileo's utter domination of the 2016 turf season continued on Saturday as his two-year-old son Churchill stormed to success in the Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket.

Churchill was notching his second top-level success having already landed the National Stakes on his previous outing, and provided his sire with a fourth Dewhurst success following on from Frankel in 2010, New Approach in 2007 and Teofilo in 2006.

Bred by Liberty Bloodstock, the Aidan O'Brien-trained juvenile is out of the Listed-winning Storm Cat mare Meow, a daughter of 2002 Cheveley Park Stakes winner Airwave and a half-sister to Group 3 scorer Aloof and Listed winner Orator.

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James ThomasSales correspondent

Published on 8 October 2016inInternational

Last updated 20:04, 8 October 2016

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