“天文学家”
库尔摩尔官方推特相关讣告截图
近些年来，库尔摩尔育马场旗下的头号种公马一直是“天文学家”(Galileo)，这匹被认为是全球配种费最高的配种冠军，在国际配种界影响巨大。许多十几年来，它的配种费一直被定为"私议"。2020年初，“天文学家”就已经打破了由“丹山”(Danehill)保持的最多一级赛冠军子嗣的记录。
“天文学家”于2002年开始配种，据Wikipedia显示，2008年该驹的配种费已经高达277万人民币。19年过去了，它的配种费已经攀至无法想象的高峰。
“天文学家”（via.Coolmore Stud）
讣告原文如下：
GALILEO 1998 - 2021
10/07/2021
Regretfully our world-renowned Champion Sire Galileo was put to sleep earlier today on humane grounds owing to a chronic, non-responsive, debilitating injury to the left fore foot.
“It is a very sad day,” said John Magnier, “but we all feel incredibly fortunate to have had Galileo here at Coolmore. I would like to thank the dedicated people who looked after him so well all along the way. He was always a very special horse to us and he was the first Derby winner we had in Ballydoyle in the post M V O’Brien era. I would also like to thank Aidan and his team for the brilliant job they did with him. The effect he is having on the breed through his sons and daughters will be a lasting legacy and his phenomenal success really is unprecedented.”
Following Galileo’s strikingly impressive Epsom Derby success the front-page headline in the Racing Post was the single word ‘PERFECTION.’ It could not have been more apt.
Bred in the purple by Sadler’s Wells out of ‘Arc’ heroine Urban Sea and unbeaten in his first six starts, Galileo proved an immediate success at stud siring Irish 1,000 Guineas winner Nightime from his first crop. Appropriately he became the most successful Group 1 sire of all time when his daughter Peaceful won the same race in June of last year.
His total of individual Group 1 winners now stands at 91 while no less than 20 of his sons have sired Group 1 winners on the flat, headed by Frankel and Australia.