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The filly becomes stakes winner number 314 for Galileo

Magic Attitude (3 f ex Margot Did by Exceed And Excel) made the perfect start to her Classic year when taking out the Prix Vanteaux (Gr 3, 1800m) at ParisLongchamp on Thursday and in the process became stakes winner number 314 for Coolmore Stud superstar stallion Galileo (Sadler’s Wells). 

The three-year-old filly finished her two-year-old season with a third place finish in the Criterium de Lyon (Listed, 1600m), but she broke her stakes duck on Thursday with a two length victory over Emoji (Soldier Hollow). 

The filly shows the firepower Galileo possess’ when bred to fast mares, with Magic Attitude being the result of a mating between the son of Sadler’s Wells (Northern Dancer) and Margot Did (Exceed And Excel), whose three stakes victories came over five furlongs, including in the 2011 Nunthorpe Stakes (Gr 1, 5f). Margot Did also produced Group 2 winner Mission Impassible (Galileo). 

Further back this is the same family as Group 1 winner Caradak (Desert Style), Group 3 winners Divine (Dark Angel) and Cajarian (Shahrastani) and Very Sydney (Danehill), who won the Centaurea Stakes (Listed, 1800m) at Morphettville in 2006. 

Magic Attitude is bred on the same cross as last season’s Derby (Gr 1, 1m4f) winner Anthony Van Dyck, who is out of 2008 Blue Diamond Prelude (f) (Gr 3, 1100m) winner Believe'n'succeed. 

Galileo - who is represented in Australia by his sons, including Adelaide, Churchill, Highland Reel - stands at Coolmore Stud in Ireland for a private fee.