Chalk up first winner of 2020 for Treasure Beach

Treasure Beach’s first winner of 2020 came at Parx Racing yesterday when the hard-hitting Galileo’s Affair scored her seventh career victory in a mile and an eighth race over a sloppy track.

The 5-year-old mare bred by Joe and Kris Carroll went to the front early with pilot Jermaine Burke, gave up the lead heading down the backstretch, took it back with a powerful run on the turn and held off fast-closing Sydney Time by one-half length at the wire. The $12,000 winner’s check raised Galileo’s Affair’s lifetime total to $168,020 on a solid record of 7-4-7 in 30 starts.