2001 King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Diamond -- Galileo

Galileo defeats 5-year-old Fantastic Light and other older horses to win the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes at Ascot. Another fast time for Galileo, the only sub-2:28 in this race since 1985.

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• King
• George
• VI
• Queen
• Elizabeth
• Diamond
• Stakes
• Ascot
• Galileo
• Fantastic
• Light
• Michael
• Kinane

[aaronbees]

"What a race, what a horse!" Love this Galileo series -- thanks for posting them!

[AwsiDooger]

Happy to do it, aaronbees. I don't follow European racing closely every year, but I've been to Europe four times during the summer and got hooked on their major races every time. Last time was 2001 so I became a Galileo fan.

One time I camped and the campground was adjacent to a race course, one that was closed for the season. I went out at dusk and walked the course. The subtle elevation changes were fascinating.

[Carpetlay1]

Sweetypie000 you must be an extremely stupid person. I like Animals more than I like Human Beings. Horses love running. They live like Kings. And as for 500 horses killed on British Racecourses last year. Your mad. Where did you get this snippet of information? I don't know The exact amount but I know it's not 500. I'd be surprised if 500 have been killed it the last 10 years. I hate cruelty to Animals. Horse racing is not cruel.

[MrNativeDancer]

@GBeret83 Remember where you heard this first. Galileo has another fantastic son called Apollo out of Golden Coral, who is daughter of the fantastic Slew Gold who won over 3m in prize money back in the 80s. Apollo foaled 2009 demolished a field in a £10k maiden at the Curragh on July 17th 2011. Hes only had the 1 start in that 7f race, I imagine they are gonna step him up in trip as a 3 year old and he is gonna be very hard to beat. he is top top class. One to follow in 2012

[drofheim]

Mark Johnston think he called the 2010th Kentucky Derby.

[GBeret83]

I love the way when Fantastic Light rolled up on Galileo's outside in this race how Kinane immediately got Galileo to accelerate and leave him flat. Reminds me a little of what he did on Sea The Stars in the 09' Coral-Eclipse when Rip Van Winkle rolled up on his outside that day. JMO.

[robertobhro]

What a great commentary! The best I've ever heard. What's the name of this guy?

[sweetypie000]

RIP Rewilding

It is not good enough so many horses die in this sport. England has no consideration for these poor animals forced to do this barbaric 'sport'.

It is not good enough these horses are used for high priced sports and when they break a leg are destroyed and cast off.

Money is, as usual, taking preference over moral decency and animal welfare.

There have been something like a minimum 500 deaths of horses on UK horse tracks this year alone

Animal abuse absolutley

[wesjSn]

whos the commentator?

[GBeret83]

Galileo had amazing acceleration. In both Derby's, and in the King George, when Mick Kinane asked Galileo to go win his race, he just bolt's to the lead incredibly quick.