Five talking points from the weekend's stakes race action

1. Galileo takes the fast route to Guineas glory

Frankel did not, in the end, make any impression in the first Classics as a sire, as neither Dream Castle nor Eminent in the 2,000 Guineas, or Fair Eva or Queen Kindly in the fillies' version, managed to reach the frame.

But his influence was felt intangibly. As an unbeaten dual world champion, including in ten Group 1 races, Frankel is the paragon of what Flat breeders aim to produce. So it was inevitable they would replicate the sort of mating that led to his birth: that is, sending a speedy mare to Galileo.

The perennial champion sire had covered sprinters before that – Cape Blanco, for instance, is one year Frankel's senior and out of five-furlong specialist Laurel Delight – but in recent years mare owners, not least Galileo's stewards Coolmore, have sent more and more sprinters, dams of sprinters or speedily bred sorts to him.

The upshot is a Guineas double this weekend for Galileo offspring out of fast mares. Churchill is out of five-furlong Listed winner and Queen Mary Stakes second Meow, while Winter is out of Laddies Poker Two, a daughter of Choisir who landed a gamble in the Wokingham Handicap at Royal Ascot.

Rhododendron, the fast-finishing runner-up in the 1,000 Guineas, is out of Halfway To Heaven, a Group 1 winner over a mile to ten furlongs but who in turn had two very sharp sprinters as parents – Pivotal and Cassandra Go.

Seventh Heaven, the Galileo filly who destroyed her rivals in the Jockey Club Stakes on Saturday, is a half-sister to Middle Park Stakes winner Crusade out of La Traviata, a Grade 3 winner over six furlongs in the US.

As Cape Blanco and Seventh Heaven – both Classic winners over 12 furlongs – illustrate, even when Galileo is matched with speedy mares he often imparts enough stamina for the progeny to stay. That should make reassuring reading to anyone who fancies Churchill, Winter or Rhododendron for Epsom.

2. Two up for Teofilo

Galileo was not the only sire to enjoy a productive weekend, however, as one of his sons, Teofilo, also hit the mark with a brace of stakes winners. Four-year-old filly Ajman Princess set the ball rolling with a commanding five-length success in the Listed Daisy Warwick Stakes over 1m4f at Goodwood. The Roger Varian-trained filly had taken six attempts to get off the mark but, having previously won a maiden at odds of 1-20, has now won her last two outings.

A little over two hours later the three-year-old Permian, who had been foiled by Derby hope Cracksman on his previous start, doubled his sire’s tally of weekend stakes winners when running out a four-and-a-half-length winner of the Listed Newmarket Stakes over 1m2f for trainer Mark Johnston and owner Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed.

Teofilo, who has now sired 101 stakes performers – including 33 Group winners and 32 Listed winners – stands at Darley’s Irish base at Kildangan Stud, where his fee for the current breeding season is set at €40,000.

Not to be outdone by her older half-brother, Bean Feasa, a daughter of Galileo’s arch rival Dubawi, did her bit to uphold the family name on Sunday when the three-year-old ran out a two-and-three-quarter-length winner of the Group 3 Derrinstown Stud 1,000 Guineas Trial at Leopardstown for the man who guided Teofilo through his unbeaten five-race career, Jim Bolger.

Permian wins the Newmarket StakesCredit: Alan Crowhurst

3. Dual Oaks-winning dams on the mark

Much of the focus over the weekend understandably fell on the opening two Classics of the season. But Churchill and Winter were not the only Classic winners to make their presence felt on the Rowley Mile on Sunday, with dual Oaks heroines Ouija Board and Alexandrova both hitting the mark with their progeny.

Impressive Group 2 Dahlia Stakes winner Somehow, a daughter of Fastnet Rock, is the fifth foal produced by Alexandrova, a daughter of Sadler’s Wells who won the 2006 renewals of the Oaks and Irish Oaks by a cumulative ten lengths. The 14-year-old Alexandrova has also produced the Group 2 winner Alex My Boy and the French scorer Bella Qatara.

Earlier on the card Frontiersman, a son of Dubawi, ran out a ready winner of what had looked a competitive handicap over 1m4f.

The Charlie Appleby-trained four-year-old is the fifth foal produced by globetrotting wondermare Ouija Board, who gained the first of her seven top-flight victories in the 2004 Oaks, which was swiftly followed by her second Group 1 in the Irish equivalent. Ouija Board has produced four other winners to date, most notably Derby winner Australia when bred to Galileo, and the Australian Group 3 winner Our Voodoo Prince, a son of Kingmambo. This year the daughter of Cape Cross visited dual world champion Frankel.

Another relation to an Oaks winner also struck on Sunday, with Douglas Macarthur, a brother to 2012 winner Was, leading home a 1-2-3 for Galileo in the Group 3 Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial at Leopardstown.

Somehow, a daughter of Alexandrova and Fastnet Rock, wins the Group 2 Dahlia Stakes at NewmarketCredit: Mark Cranham

4. National Colour brightens up Turffontein

For a broodmare to produce one top-level winner is quite an achievement, while to produce two marks her down as a mare of the highest calibre. But to have two of her progeny win Grade 1s on the same card is a truly remarkable accomplishment, and it is one that National Colour achieved at Turffontein in South Africa on Saturday.

Brothers Mustaaqeem, a two-year-old who won the SA Nursery over 6f, and Rafeef, a four-year-old who landed the Computaform Sprint over 5f, are both Australian-bred sons of Redoute's Choice out of National Colour, a daughter of National Assembly who ran second to Borderlescott in the 2008 Nunthorpe, and trained by Mike de Kock for Hamdan Al Maktoum.

National Colour (right) just fails to catch Borderlescott in the NunthorpeCredit: Edward Whitaker

5. Living the Dream

Always Dreaming did what neither his sire Bodemeister nor Bodemeister's sire Empire Maker could quite manage on Saturday: win the Kentucky Derby.

Bodemeister set blistering fractions in the Run for the Roses in 2012 but was collared close home by I'll Have Another, while Empire Maker's solid finish was not enough to catch Funny Cide nine years earlier.

Empire Maker is living up to his name as a sire, as the son of Unbridled – repatriated from a stint at stud in Japan two years ago – is the paternal grandsire of two of the last Kentucky Derby winners. American Pharoah, by another runner-up in the Churchill Downs Classic for Empire Maker in Pioneerof The Nile, won the first leg of his Triple Crown two years ago.

WinStar Farm is sitting pretty as the home of Bodemeister and Pioneerof The Nile, whose champion two-year-old son Classic Empire caught the eye by staying on into fourth behind Always Dreaming on Saturday.

Always Dreaming (white bridle) en route to winning the 143rd running of the Kentucky DerbyCredit: Andy Lyons (Getty Images)