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Fantastic Light made rapid progress on the outside and caught the favourite a furlong from the finish, but Galileo rallied and pulled away again in the closing stages to win by two lengths. Hightori, who had been badly hampered by the fading Give The Slip, finished strongly to take third by a short head from Storming Home, with Millenary in fifth place.
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Give The Slip took the lead from the tart and set the pace from Ice Dancer, with Ababaa Blue, Golden Snake and Mutamam just behind. Give The Slip maintained his advantage into the straight where Mick Kinane produced Galileo with a run on the inside to take the lead approaching the final quarter mile.
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ahead of Fantastic Light (7/2). Anabaa Blue (18/1) was the only other runner to start at odds of less than 20/1 reflecting the view that the race was effectively a match between the representatives of Ballydoyle and Godolphin.
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The race attracted a field of twelve runners: seven from the United Kingdom, three from Ireland and two from France. Favourite for the race was the undefeated Irish colt Galileo who had won the
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Ice Dancer. The Godolphin stable were represented by the five-year-old
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winner Anabaa Blue and the four-year-old Hightori who had won the
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pacemaker Give The Slip a high-class stayer who had won the
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on Saturday 28 July 2001. It was the 51st running of the
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Index

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes

Ascot Racecourse
Galileo
Jockey
Mick Kinane
Trainer
Aidan O'Brien
2000
2002
horse race
Ascot Racecourse
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes
Susan Magnier
Michael Tabor
Galileo
bay
colt
Ballydoyle
Aidan O'Brien
Mick Kinane
Belmez
King's Theatre
Montjeu
Epsom Derby
Irish Derby
pacemaker
Fantastic Light
Man o' War Stakes
Tattersalls Gold Cup

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