Churchill
Bay201416.2 hh (1.67 m)
Distance won over: 7f. to 8f.
Galileo - Meow
Fee for 2023: €30,000
Stands at Coolmore
European Champion 2YO & Dual Guineas winner
Winner of 7 straight races at 2 and 3 years including 4 Group Ones
A Stallion's Pedigree...
- By GALILEO, 12-time Champion sire with 96 Gr.1 winners.
- 23 sons of GALILEO have sired Gr.1 winners worldwide.
A Seriously Fast Damline…
- Out of MEOW - runner-up (beaten a neck) in the 5f. Queen Mary Stakes-Gr.2.
- Second dam AIRWAVE won the 6f. Cheveley Park Stakes-Gr.1 and her half-sister JWALA won the 5f. Coolmore Nunthorpe Stakes-Gr.1.
- His own-sister CLEMMIE won the Cheveley Park Stakes-Gr.1 becoming Galileo’s only Group 1 winner over 6 furlongs.
Yearlings in 2022 sold for €485,000, €300,000, €255,000, €250,000, €245,000, €230,000, €215,000, €200,000, €200,000, €200,000, €200,000, €182,000, €175,000, €170,000 etc.
Top performers include...
- Vadeni - European Champion 3YO, winner of the Gr.1 Prix du Jockey Club, Gr.1 Eclipse Stakes, Gr.3 Prix de Guiche & Listed Criterium du Fonds Europeen de l'Elevage for Jean-Claude Rouget. Second in the Gr.1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe
- Blue Rose Cen - Champion 2YO in France, winner of the Gr.1 Prix Marcel Boussac & Gr.3 Prix d'Aumale at ParisLongchamp for Christopher Head
- Ladies Church - winner of the Gr.2 Sapphire Stakes & Listed Marwell Stakes for Johnny Murtagh
- The Foxes - winner of the Gr.2 Royal Lodge Stakes at Newmarket for Andrew Balding
- Queroyal - winner of the Gr.3 German Derby Trial at Baden-Baden for Andreas Wöhler
- Snaffles - winner of the Listed Star Appeal Stakes for Joseph O'Brien
- Il Grande Gatsby - winner of the Listed Premio Pisa, runner-up in the Gr.3 Italian 2000 Guineas
- Perotan - winner of the Listed Her Majesty's Plate at Down Royal for Aidan O'Brien
- Grand Alliance - runner-up in the Gr.2 King Edward VII Stakes at Royal Ascot & Listed Blue Riband Trial at Epsom
- The Acropolis - third in the Gr.2 Futurity Stakes & runner-up in the Listed 2000 Guineas Trial Stakes at Leopardstown
- Unconquerable - runner-up in the Gr.3 Zetland Stakes, third in the Gr.2 Royal Lodge Stakes & Gr.3 Tyros Stakes
- Zain Sarinda - runner-up in the Listed Fairway Stakes at Newmarket, third in the Listed Blue Riband Trial at Epsom & Listed Glasgow Stakes at Hamilton
- La Estrellita - runner-up in the Listed Baden-Baden Cup, third in the Gr.3 Schwarzgold Rennen & Listed Winterkonigin Trial
- Apache Outlaw - third in the Gr.2 Railway Stakes at the Curragh