Debutant Very Discreet, who scored over 1000m at Cheltenham on Saturday, became the twelfth individual Australian winner for Exceed And Excel, who has led the first-season sires’ table all season.
In the UK, Mrs Kipling won at Lingfield on only her second start for 25-year-old trainer Simon Callaghan with her paternal half-brother Pocket's Pick finishing two lengths behind her to complete an Exceed And Excel quinella. The pair were six lengths clear of the remainder of the field. Mrs Kipling, who is out of the Japanese-bred Carnegie mare Quinzey, is the eighth European winner for her sire.
The former Champion sprinter is now the sire of five stakes winners, including Wilander, Exceedingly Good and Believe'N'Succeed, and a further four stakes place-getters in his native country and his first European crop, which includes Royal Ascot winner Flashmans Papers and G2 runner-up Spin Cycle, is showing similar promise.
Exceed And Excel stands in Aberdeen, NSW, at a fee of $110,000 inc GST.
