RIP Van Winkle (Galileo) last stood in Ireland in 2016. Despite his stud fee being halved that year to €12,500, declining popularity made the decision to relocate him to New Zealand an easy one and today he is based at Windsor Park Stud in Cambridge. He is certainly more popular down under.

To date he has sired a single Group 1 winner, the Phoenix Stakes winner Dick Whittington. However, he has 28 stakes winners, five of which have been successful at Group 2 level, and the most recent of these was the Derby Italiano winner Keep On Fly. The colt was winning for just the second time, a month earlier finally landing his maiden.