Galileo unstoppable as he notches two new Group 1 winners at the Curragh

Galileo continued his domination of Longines Irish Champions Weekend when supplying two new Group 1 winners at the Curragh on Sunday, having delivered four stakes scorers at Leopardstown on Saturday.

The perennial champion sire's double came via Love, a brave winner of the Moyglare Stud Stakes, and Search For A Song, who made most to take the Comer Group International Irish St Leger.

Sunday's racing results

Search For A Song also led home two paternal half-siblings in Kew Gardens and Southern France to make it a second tricast in a top-level race for the sire in two days, after Magical led home Magic Wand and Anthony Van Dyck in the Qipco Irish Champion Stakes, and an extraordinary ninth of his stud career overall.

Love and Search For A Song take Galileo's tally of elite winners to 82, which means he is rapidly closing in on his one-time Coolmore studmate Danehill's record of 84.

The Aidan O'Brien-trained Love, an impressive winner of the Group 3 Silver Flash Stakes earlier in the season, was bred by Coolmore out of the placed Pivotal mare Pikaboo, who came into the operation's ownership after she managed to produce Duchess of Cambridge Stakes and Lowther Stakes winner Lucky Kristale to the less heralded sire Lucky Story.

Coolmore have mated Pikaboo, a three-parts sister to stakes winners Arabian Gleam and Kimberella, with Galileo in each season since they bought her and the first three attempts have resulted in Pattern success – the four-year-old Munster Oaks winner Flattering, three-year-old Stanerra Stakes scorer Peach Tree and now Love.

Love completed an Irish Champions Weekend Group 1 treble for Pivotal as damsire, after Magical (also by Galileo) took the Irish Champion Stakes and Fairyland (by Kodiac) struck in the Derrinstown Stud Flying Five Stakes.

Love: a Galileo sister to Flattering and Peach Tree, and half-sister to Lucky KristaleCredit: Alan Crowhurst

The lightly raced Search For A Song, a winner of the Galtres Stakes on her last start, is trained by Dermot Weld for owner-breeder Moyglare Stud and the three-year-old filly hails from one of the operation's foremost families.

She is the eighth winner out of the winning Danehill mare Polished Gem, a sister to Matriarch Stakes heroine Dress To Thrill.

Incredibly, six of the octet out of the dam are black-type winners; Search For A Song follows, from oldest to youngest, Sapphire (by Medicean), Custom Cut (by Notnowcato), Free Eagle (by High Chaparral), Valac (by Dark Angel) and Falcon Eight (by Galileo).

Polished Gem, whose dam Trusted Partner won the Irish 1,000 Guineas and granddam Talking Picture landed two Grade 1 contests in the US, has a two-year-old filly by Galileo named Amma Grace – she was a promise-filled third on debut at Cork this month – and a yearling colt by the sire, who she returned to this year at the age of 16.

The weekend's racing action underlined what a phenomenal force Galileo is in pedigrees.

At Longchamp on Sunday he sired Qatar Prix Foy winner Waldgeist and was represented as damsire by Qatar Prix Niel scorer Sottsass (by Siyouni), while Saturday's impressive St Leger hero Logician is by his dual world champion son Frankel.

His Leopardstown four-timer on the same day encompassed Blissful, Mogul and Norway as well as Magical, while elsewhere on the card another son, Ruler Of The World, was the source of Coolmore Fastnet Rock Matron Stakes winner Iridessa and he also featured as damsire of Clipper Logistics Boomerang Stakes scorer Space Traveller.

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