Gleneagles’s Galen a new TDN Rising Star

[Wandering Eyes]

Joseph O'Brien trainee Galen (GB) (Gleneagles {Ire}–Apache Storm {GB}, by Pivotal {GB}) had won his Curragh maiden by nine lengths last month and bettered that with an emphatic 11-length follow-up at Killarney on Monday to earn TDN Rising Star status. Sent off the 4-9 favourite for the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Race over a mile, the flashy chestnut was sent to the lead by Dylan Browne McMonagle soon after the start where he was joined by the filly Beechwood (Ire) (Le Havre {Ire}).

Putting that rival under pressure after the home turn, the 55,000gns Tattersalls October Book 2 purchase who represents Ger Fitzgerald, Paul Redmond, Anne Marie O'Brien and Barry Fowler and who had been runner-up to City Of Troy (Justify) last May turned it on from there to record an impressive time nearly five seconds faster than the promising bunch of juveniles who contested the card's opener. Beechwood is rated 94 and had been beaten under two lengths when fourth in the Listed Noblesse Stakes in April.

The dam, whose daughter Mexicali Rose (GB) (Zoffany {Ire}) was third in the Listed Victor McCalmont Memorial Stakes, is kin to the G3 Dee Stakes and G3 Sandown Classic Trial winner Azmeel (GB) (Azamour {Ire}) and to the dams of Azamour's G1 Cantala Stakes and G2 Royal Lodge Stakes scorer Best Of Days (GB) and the G1 Irish 1,000 Guineas third Foxtrot Liv (GB) (Foxwedge {Aus}). Her yearling colt by Kodi Bear (Ire) was a 42,000gns purchase by Castle Bloodstock at the Tattersalls December Foal Sale.

 

Galen is much too good in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Race under @DylanBrowneMcM for the Jospeh O'Brien team! pic.twitter.com/huTtnerPWD

— KillarneyRaces (@KillarneyRaces) July 15, 2024

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