Mrs Kipling became the second filly of this name to score a Stakes win for her young sire when winning the Listed Elwick Stakes in Hobart on Tasmanian Derby day.
Running in the colours of Plantation Stud, owned by Irishman Dermot O’Rourke, the two-year-old Exceed And Excel filly, out of the Royal Academy mare Dora Maar, was recording her second win after scoring at Morphettville on 16 January.
She is not to be confused with the Irish-bred Exceed And Excel filly, also named Mrs Kipling, who last year was trained in Newmarket by Simon Callaghan and won the Listed Premio Divino Amore at Cappanelle before finishing third in the G3 Cornwallis Stakes at Ascot. She has since been sold, fetching 165,000gns at Tattersalls December Sale.
Exceed And Excel was also represented in Australia on Saturday by the G1-placed Excelltastic, who gained some more black type when running third in the G3 C S Hayes Stakes at Flemington. On the same card, the Darley-bred Romneya provided Sheikh Mohammed with a Group Three victory in The Vanity. The three-year-old filly is by former Dalham Hall Stud resident Red Ransom out of Mannington, the dam of 2005 VRC Derby winner Benicio.
Farther north at Rosehill, Marquardt became the second winner from the first crop of Shamardal and her first-time-out victory was a notable milestone for Nathan Tinkler’s Patinack Farm. At the 2008 yearling sales, Patinack made a huge splash and this filly is the first of those numerous expensive purchases to win in town.
After the race, the delighted owner said: ‘That was sensational. I was very happy with that. This is only her second preparation but she keeps stepping up to the plate and getting better.’
Tinkler thus had two reasons to be thankful for his patronage of Darley-sired offspring because half an hour before Marquardt’s victory, his Exceed And Excel colt Abeyant had also made a winning debut in a two-year-old maiden at Newcastle, New South Wales’s principal provincial fixture of the day.
Shamardal, whose first runners will hit the track in Europe during the forthcoming flat turf season, has now had two winners from nine runners in Australia.
