Ebony Flyer booked to GALILEO!!!!!!!!!

Team Valor International
EBONY FLYER, Team Valor's classic winner in South Africa, has been retired and booked to Galileo.

The daughter of Jet Master and half sister to Captain's Lover is a 3-time Grade 1 winner, including her triumph over Igugu in the Cape Fillies Guineas.

Muhti, what is your take on this mating?

PeeKay Wrote:

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> Muhti, what is your take on this mating?

Not that my opinion would ever count in the big leagues......Hard to get a horse to Galileo for starters and the mating is very workable.....Barry is therefore looking at a commercial aspect and will more than double his money on the service fee alone.....I would not however keep the projeny to race though..... :

WHAT is a covering costing to galileo these days? R15m?

hibernia Wrote:

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> WHAT is a covering costing to galileo these days?
> R15m?


Surely not ??

Lol a meant R1.5 m

Galileo was retired to stand as a stallion for the Coolmore Stud. He has operated as a "shuttle" stallion, standing at Coolmore's main farm at Fethard, County Tipperary Ireland during the Northern Hemisphere breeding season and moving to its Australian branch in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales for the Southern Hemisphere breeding season.[29] However, as of 2012, he stands exclusively in Ireland.

His 2008 fee for a live foal was reported to be 225,000 Euros.[30] His 2009 stud fee was reduced to 175,000 Euros reflecting the general trend in stallion fees. In 2012, his fee is listed as "private" by Coolmore.

In September 2008, he underwent surgery for colic [31]

As of 16 October 2011, he has sired twenty-six individual Group one or Grade 1 winners worldwide. By August 2011, he had sired 100 stakes winners from only seven crops of racing age.[32]

This will go for 5 bob :

Perhaps Barry can comment on this sometime?

I've retired from all message boards that allow anonymous posters.

Barry Irwin Wrote:

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> I've retired from all message boards that allow
> anonymous posters.


then you going to only tell me ?