Galilee was a bay gelding who was foaled in 1963 at Trelawney Stud, Cambridge, New Zealand.
Galilee was owned by an Adelaide builder, Max Bailey and his wife Venice, who also raced Ziema, who ran second in the 1965 Caulfield and Melbourne Cups.
The champion racehorse also easily won such races as the Queen Elizabeth Stakes, the Toorak Handicap and the C.B.
Fisher Plate, in which he defeated champion middle-distance horse Tobin Bronze.
After retirement Galilee spent his years at the family horse stud, Beaufields near Gawler, South Australia.