Champion Minding Delivers Filly by the Late Deep Impact
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Minding with her 2020 filly by Deep Impact
The brilliant Minding, who won seven group 1 races, has produced a filly by the late Japanese super sire Deep Impact.
The 7-year-old daughter of Galileo was in training for three seasons and won the Moyglare Stud Stakes (G1) and Dubai Fillies' Mile (G1) at 2, then swept the QIPCO One Thousand Guineas (G1), Investec Oaks (G1), Sea The Stars Pretty Polly (G1), and Qatar Nassau Stakes (G1) before she dropped back to a mile to beat Ribchester in the Queen Elizabeth II (G1) during a vintage 3-year-old campaign.
She returned at 4 but was limited to just one run, in which she comfortably landed the Camelot Irish E.B.F. Mooresbridge Stakes (G2).
"She was an incredible filly and was one of the best fillies I have trained," trainer Aidan O'Brien said upon her retirement. "She had the most brilliant physique and a wonderful pedigree. Above all, it was her mind that made her special because she was such a pleasure to deal with and had a brilliant attitude."
Minding is out of Coronation Stakes (G1) and Coolmore Fusaichi Pegasus Matron Stakes (G1) winner Lillie Langtry, which makes her a full sister to group 3 winner Kissed By Angels. Lillie Langtry has been mated exclusively with Galileo since she retired to the Coolmore broodmare band. She also has a 2-year-old daughter and a yearling filly by the perennial champion sire on the ground.
The new arrival is bred on the same cross responsible for group 1-winning juvenile and QIPCO Two Thousand Guineas (G1) scorer Saxon Warrior, who is by Deep Impact and out of another daughter of Galileo, the Moyglare Stud Stakes winner Maybe.
Minding's 2020 filly by Deep Impact
Minding was among a select group of Coolmore's Galileo mares who shuttled to Japan to be covered by Deep Impact, who has been crowned champion sire in his native land each year since 2012.
Minding, who last year produced a colt by Deep Impact, was joined in 2018 by four-time group 1 winner Winter, Maybe's sisters Fluff and Promise To Be True, as well as Best In The World, a sister to Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe (G1) heroine Found.