13 April 2013

Safeguard stamps his class

Exceed And Excel records his sixth juvenile Group winner of the season

Australia’s leading stallion Exceed And Excel produced his sixth Group winning two-year-old of the season when Safeguard resumed from a spell with a dominant display in the G3 Kindergarten Stakes over 1100m at Randwick, April 13.

Safeguard won impressively on debut at Flemington in December and was on a Golden Slipper preparation for trainer Peter Snowden before a spiked temperature put an end to that.

However, a masterful ride from Kerrin McEvoy enabled his connections to salvage a G3 win out of the preparation.

A homebred for Darley, Safeguard is out of G1-winning two-year-old Preserve, a half-sister to G1 winner and Darley stallion Denman.

Denman’s first yearlings have been extremely popular at the sales this year and he was the leading first season sire at Karaka in January.

Exceed And Excel is the sire of 69 Stakes winners worldwide with five individual G1 winners including last weekend’s G1 Golden Slipper winner Overreach, Darley’s triple G1 winner Helmet, Reward For Effort, Excelebration and Margot Did.