THERE is a double-digit tally of Galileo (Sadler’s Wells) stallions who have had at least one Group 1 winner at stud, headed by the multiple classic sires Teofilo (101 stakes winners), Frankel (84) and New Approach (58), and the list also includes Gleneagles.

That dual classic-winning miler’s Loving Dream landed the Group 1 Prix de Royallieu and Group 2 Ribblesdale Stakes last year, and he also had Group 2 winners in Ireland (Insinuendo and Velocidad) and France (Baby Rider), plus the runaway Group 2 German 1000 Guineas heroine Novemba, backed up by a string of other stakes winners. His burgeoning profile augurs well for the prospects of his ‘cousin’, Decorated Knight.