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Galileo’s Cup curse lives on at Caulfield, but his influence remains

For the first time since 2015, Galileo has no direct representative in the Caulfield Cup. Yet while he has never sired a winner of Australia’s great handicaps, his descendants continue to leave an increasingly powerful imprint on both the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups.
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