Racing Career
Ridden by jockey J. J. Miller, in the Sydney Cup he carried 9 stone 7 pounds (60 kg) to victory and won the race easily by six lengths, whilst in the Melbourne Cup he decisively defeated his stablemate Light Fingers, who had won the cup the previous year.
The champion racehorse also easily won such races as the Queen Elizabeth Stakes, the Toorak Handicap and the C.B. Fisher Plate, in which he defeated champion middle distance horse Tobin Bronze.
Bart Cummings has often referred to Galilee as the best horse he has trained and it was not until Saintly, who won the Cox Plate-Melbourne Cup double in 1996, came along were comparisons made.
Galilee was inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame.
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