GALILEO may be gone – never to be forgotten – but the Coolmore team firmly believe in his champion son Frankel, and yesterday afternoon M.V. Magnier further endorsed that belief when he spent 675,000gns on a February-foaled son of the Juddmonte sire.

The sale represented a high for David and Trish Brown’s Furnace Mill Stud, the best result for the farm with a foal and a figure that reduced breeder Trish Brown to tears.