Circus Maximus Returns to Windsor Park

Media Release - Friday August 12

The brilliant triple Gr.1 winning miler Circus Maximus has arrived and settled in for his second breeding season at Windsor Park, Cambridge.

He's back !

A world class son of the legendary Galileo, Circus Maximus was a Gr.1 performer on the racetrack from two to four years of age and in seventeen career starts he competed in thirteen Group One races, winning or finishing top four in ten of the events and being crowned Champion Miler as both a 3YO and 4YO.
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As well, Circus Maximus is bred on the highly prepotent cross of Galileo over Danehill Dancer mares which currently runs at an incredible 24% stakes winners to runners ratio and includes nineteen Group winners – eight at the elite Gr.1 level.

A son of the dual Royal Ascot stakes winning racemare Duntle, Circus Maximus proved to be the most popular stallion in New Zealand last season, when he covered 161 mares.
 
Galileo’s champion son has already got tongues wagging with the impression his first-crop foals have created in the Northern hemisphere while in New Zealand his first foal arrived recently at Wentwood Grange, Cambridge out of the John Wood-owned, Group winning daughter of High Chaparral, Mangaroa Flo Jo.
 
Circus Maximus shuttles from Coolmore, Ireland and is again proving popular with breeders this season at a fee of $20,000+gst.  
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