Gallic Delivers Gutsy Group Performance

Gallic (Zabeel x Gesine) delivered on the promise he has shown by winning the A$400,000 Group 2 SKYCITY Adelaide Cup (3200m) at Morphettville in South Australia yesterday.

With Steven Arnold aboard the seven-year-old gelding had to survive a protest from Luke Nolen - who rode runner-up Lacey Underhall - before being declared the victor, with the margin at the finish line just half a head. The two had drawn away from the field with Exalted Time seven-and-a-quarter lengths away in third.

Gallic is already a dual-Bendigo Cup (Listed) winner and has been an ultra consistent galloper, finishing further back than fourth only three times in his twenty-one race career.

Purchased at the 2001 Karaka Premier Sale for NZ$170,000 from the Ra-Ora Haunui Partnership and raced by prominent owner Lloyd Williams and kiwi trans-Tasman trainer Graeme Rogerson, Gallic's stake earnings are now in excess of A$650,000. Bred by South Auckland's Roberts Holdings, he is from the well-performed family bred by the Moores at Karaka (who now sell under the banner Soliloquy Lodge) and is a grand-son of multiple Group One winner Solveig (by Imposing) who was NZ Filly of the Year in her three-year-old season.

Gallic's yearling half-sister by Van Nistelrooy was bought at Karaka this January by New South Wales buyer, Ross McConville for $52,500 from Haunui Farm.