'Galileo was the start of it as he was our first Derby winner out of Ballydoyle'

This article was published in the Racing Post on June 3, 2021, two days before the 20th anniversary of Galileo's Derby triumph at Epsom

As Galileo thundered away from his toiling rivals in the 2001 Derby, few could have predicted what was to follow.

That performance was not only the first of three Group 1s the muscular bay with a white arrow down his face annexed that season, but it was on that hallowed turf that he dropped the first major hint he might one day leave his mark on the thoroughbred breed.