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- Updated: October 11, 2016
Hugo Palmer believes he has Galileo Gold “at the peak of his powers” for Saturday’s mouthwatering Qipco Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot.
The 2000 Guineas and St James’s Palace Stakes winner is due to clash with Ribchester and Awtaad, who have verdicts over him in France and Ireland respectively, as well as one of Aidan O’Brien’s top-class fillies Minding or Alice Springs.
Newmarket-based Palmer feels his stable star has excuses for his defeats this season and that the break of two months since his run in the Prix Jacques le Marois will have done him the power of good.
His French reverse came just 18 days after a narrow defeat to The Gurkha, who has subsequently been retired.
“I’m really confident he’s …
