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Galilee (horse)

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he carried 9 stone 7 pounds (60 kg) to victory and won the race easily by six lengths, whilst in the 1966
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Bart Cummings has often referred to Galilee as the best horse he has trained. It was not until
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After retirement Galilee spent his years at the family horse stud, Beaufields near Gawler,
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Pring, Peter; "Analysis of Champion Racehorses", The Thoroughbred Press, Sydney, 1977,
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and the C.B. Fisher Plate, in which he defeated champion middle-distance horse
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The champion racehorse also easily won such races as the
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builder, Max Bailey and his wife Venice, who also raced
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Galilee was a bay gelding who was foaled in 1963 at
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Index

Alycidon
Gelding
New Zealand
Brown
Trelawney Stud
Bart Cummings
A$
Toorak Handicap
Caulfield Cup
Melbourne Cup
C.B.Fisher Plate
VRC Queens Plate
VRC Queen Elizabeth Stakes
Sydney Cup
Memsie Stakes
Turnbull Stakes
Australian Racing Hall of Fame
New Zealand
Thoroughbred
racehorses
Australia
Sydney Cups
Trelawney Stud
Cambridge, New Zealand
Alcimedes
Bart Cummings
New Zealand
Adelaide
Ziema
jockey

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