THERE are few better bred three-year-old colts in training than Mount Everest, and he scaled a racing peak of sorts at the weekend in Leopardstown when this Niarchos-owned and bred son of Galileo (Sadler’s Wells) gained a first blacktype win in the Listed Trigo Stakes. Runner-up at two in the Group 2 Beresford Stakes, he is now the fourth stakes-winning produce of the European champion Six Perfections.

A daughter of Celtic Swing (Damister), Six Perfections won the Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac at two, earning the accolade of best filly of her age in Europe, and the following year added the Group 1 Prix Jacques Le Marois and the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Mile at Santa Anita to her tally of six victories. She was also runner-up in the Group 1 1000 Guineas in both England and Ireland.

Her best runner to date is Group 2 winner and Group 1 Racing Post Trophy runner-up Yucatan (Galileo), Mount Everest’s own-brother, while their full-sister Faulfiler (Galileo) was a Grade 3 winner in the USA. Six Perfection’s son Planet Five (Storm Cat) won the Group 2 Prix du Gros-Chene but is now retired from stud duties in Australia.