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Menelaus (IRE)

Menelaus (IRE)


SireGalileo Gold
DamEmpress Rock
Age 5
DOB 22 Mar 19
Sex gelding
Passport
Colour brown
Status In training
Owner Brian Padgett & South Bank Racing
Breeder McCracken Farms
Source
Tattersalls December Foal Sale 2019 [467]
Wins2
OR [F]F: 79
Gallery
Menelaus is by Galileo Gold out of the unraced mare Empress Rock. He is currently running in handicaps and won for the first time at Thirsk in June 2023 for Shane Gray and then followed up by winning at York ridden by apprentice Connor Planas.
Name notes:
In Greek mythology, Menelaus was a king of Mycenaean Sparta and a central figure in the Trojan War
News
16Jun23
 Menelaus wins at York for apprentice Connor Planas
05Jun23
 Menelaus loses maiden tag at Thirsk



Date Race
16Jun23 Andy Thornton Hospitality Furniture Apprentice Handicap
York
Connor Planas
1m 2½f
05Jun23 Best Prices Guaranteed Daily At vickersbet Handicap
Thirsk
Shane Gray
1m


Passport details are here (staff only)


MENELAUS

brown gelding

22 Mar 19 		Galileo Gold Paco Boy (IRE) Desert Style (IRE)
Tappen Zee
Galicuix Galileo (IRE)
Clizia (IRE)
Empress Rock (IRE) Fastnet Rock (AUS) Danehill (USA)
Piccadilly Circus (AUS)
Roman Empress (IRE) Sadler's Wells (USA)
Ionian Sea (GB)



Inbreeding
Sadler's Wells: 4S X 3D
Danzig: 5S X 4D
Northern Dancer: 5S X 4D X 5D
Fairy Bridge: 5S X 4D

Dosage
Dosage Profile: 2 2 7 5 0
Dosage Index: 0.88
Center of Distribution: +0.06


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GALILEO GOLD (GB), Chesnut horse, 2013, by Paco Boy (IRE), out of Galicuix (GB), by Galileo (IRE). Jt 4th top rated 3yr old colt in Europe in 2016. Won 5 races, value £960,886, at 2 and 3, from 6 furlongs to 1 mile, Qipco 2000 Guineas Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.1, St James's Palace Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1, Qatar Vintage Stakes, Goodwood, Gr.2, also placed second in Qatar Sussex Stakes, Goodwood, Gr.1, Tattersalls Irish 2000 Guineas, Curragh, Gr.1, and third in Qatar Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere Grand Crit, Longchamp, Gr.1. Retired to Stud in 2018.