Magnier buys Galileo colt for 2.6m guineas

Another record was broken at Book One of the Tattersalls October Sales in Newmarket as the number of seven-figure purchases continued to rise.

When Lot 398, a Street Cry colt out of Meeznah, went for a cool million guineas, that took the new figure to five for the week but there were further fireworks to come over Lot 442, a Galileo half-brother to runaway King George winner Harbinger.

After an extremely slow start, when he was even available for the minimum bid of 5,000 guineas, the Ashbrittle Stud-consigned youngster eventually reached an incredible 2.6million guineas when the hammer went down to Coolmore’s John Magnier after a battle with John Warren.