Another juvenile success for Exceed And Excel

Exceed And Excel continued his dominance of Australian two-year-old racing, producing his third Stakes winning juvenile in the past eight days with the exceptional victory of Overreach in the Listed Widden Stakes over 1100m at Rosehill on 16 February.

After claiming both G3 Blue Diamond Preludes at Caulfield last weekend with Kuroshio and Guelph, Exceed And Excel looks to have another highly exciting two-year-old in Overreach, who became her sire’s 61st Stakes winner.

Sent out a short-priced favourite following a second placing on debut in the Listed Debutants Stakes at Caulfield in October, Overreach jumped out of the gates almost a length clear of her rivals and was never headed. After leading comfortably in the early stages, the Gai Waterhouse-trained filly kicked clear at the top of the straight and went on to trounce her opposition by five-and-three-quarter lengths.

Bred and retained to race by George Altomonte’s Corumbene Stud, Overreach is the second foal of Bahia, a multiple city winning Snippets mare. Bahia is a half-sister to Exceed And Excel’s G1 Blue Diamond Stakes winner Reward For Effort, making Overreach his three-quarter sister in blood.

Overeach is the fourth Stakes winner to be bred on the Exceed And Excel/Snippets cross.

Exceed And Excel will be represented by 17 yearlings at next month’s Inglis Premier yearling sale, including lot 513, a half-sister to Darley’s G2 winner Pied A Terre. He also has nine yearlings catalogued for the Inglis Easter yearling sale to be held in April.