GALILEO ended the three days of sales as the leading sire by average, based on those with three or more lots sold. His 15 lots traded for an average of 646,667gns, and he was followed by Dubawi (22 lots averaged 593,864gns), Frankel (22 lots at an average of 468,182gns), Siyouni (an average of 414,000gns for 10 lots sold) and Kingman whose 29 lots sold for an average price of 382,655gns.

The most expensive Galileo sold was the best-priced filly of the week, Barronstown Stud’s daughter of the Grade 2 winning Oasis Dream mare Quiet Oasis. Placed at Grade 1 level in the USA after she was sent to race there, Quiet Oasis’s pedigree had a major update after the catalogue was printed when her first foal, the three-year-old Galileo colt Lancaster House, won a listed race in Ireland. This contributed significantly to the value of his full-sister which soared to 2,100,000gns. The filly was purchased by M.V. Magnier and Westerberg, the latter making three further solo purchases, while Magnier’s five lots bought in his own name averaged 977,000gns.

The highest price for a Galileo colt was paid by Godolphin when New England Stud’s son of Coolmore’s perennial champion and a full-brother to last November’s Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf winner Line Of Duty sold for 1,100,000gns. The colt was bred by Christopher Hanbury out of Jacqueline Quest, the daughter of Rock Of Gibraltar who was demoted after passing the post first in the 1000 Guineas.

Jacqueline Quest is based at Hanbury’s Triermore Stud near Navan in Co Meath and this is her second offspring to make over a million guineas in the sale ring, China Horse Club paying 1,200,000gns for another son of Galileo, the winning three-year-old World War, in 2015. Hanbury also sold a Galileo filly for 550,000gns.