BARRONSTOWN Stud-bred Kew Gardens (Galileo) gained the most important of his four victories to date on Sunday at ParisLongchamp when he led home an Aidan O’Brien 1-2-3 in the Group 1 Juddmonte Grand Prix de Paris, pushing his career earnings to approaching half a million pounds. In so doing he also emulated his dam Chelsea Rose who was herself a Group 1 winner in her racing days.

With this win at the weekend Galileo can now lay claim to 72 Group or Grade 1 winners on the flat around the world, just one less that his own sire Sadler’s Wells (Northern Dancer). This week I visited Coolmore and looked at the mouth-watering list of top-flight winning sons and daughters of the legendary stallion, and it is truly remarkable. When the final tally for Galileo is eventually compiled it will however leave his own sire a furlong behind.