First Foal Out of Alpha Centauri is a Galileo Colt
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Alpha Centauri with her 2020 Galileo colt at Coolmore
Alpha Centauri, the four-time group 1 winner and European champion 3-year-old filly of 2018, has delivered her first foal—a colt by Coolmore phenomenon Galileo.
Coolmore shared pictures of the beautifully bred new arrival, owned by the Niarchos family, on social media April 24.
Alpha Centauri hails from the Niarchos family's most famous family. She is out of Alpha Lupi, an unraced daughter of Rahy and dual French classic heroine East Of The Moon.
East Of The Moon was by Private Account out of the exceptional mare Miesque, a 10-time group/grade 1 winner who also produced top miler and influential sire Kingmambo and is ancestress of numerous high-class horses.
Alpha Centauri, East Of The Moon, and Kingmambo are among 10 top-level winners descended from Miesque in the distaff line, along with Amanee, Karakontie , Loves Only You, Real Steel, Rumplestiltskin, Study of Man, and Tapestry.
Alpha Centauri with her 2020 Galileo colt at Coolmore
Miesque appears in the pedigrees of many other celebrities, thanks primarily to the stud exploits of Kingmambo.
Alpha Centauri upheld family honor by winning the Irish One Thousand Guineas (G1), Coronation Stakes (G1), Falmouth Stakes (G1), and Prix Jacques le Marois (G1), all in impressive fashion, in a glittering 3-year-old campaign for Jessica Harrington.
Her immediate pedigree could improve even further in the months ahead as her 3-year-old half sister Alpine Star, by Sea The Moon, is a leading classic contender for the same connections after winning the Debutante Stakes (G2) last season.
Galileo, the sire of a record-equaling 84 group/grade 1 winners, has had only one runner out of a daughter of Alpha Centauri's sire, Mastercraftsman: the unplaced 3-year-old colt Flying Scotsman.
But the cross of Galileo over Mastercraftsman's sire, Danehill Dancer, has been heavily mined and produced elite winners Alice Springs, Circus Maximus, Minding, Sovereign, and The Gurkha.
The Galileo-Danehill cross, meanwhile, is one of the most famous in modern breeding, with Cape of Good Hope, Cima de Triomphe, Deauville, Frankel, Golden Lilac, Highland Reel, Intello, Japan, Maybe, Noble Mission , Roderic O'Connor, Romantica, Search For A Song and Teofilo—as well as Alpha Centauri's close relation Tapestry—among its group/grade 1-winning exponents.