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A huge weekend for champion sire Exceed And Excel ended with the son of Danehill adding four new stakes winners to his record at Randwick and Flemington.
His weekend started with a black type double in the two-year-old races at Randwick on Saturday and continued at Flemington on Sunday with a third juvenile stakes winner and a new Group-winning three-year-old to take his global tally of stakes winners to 126.
Exciting youngsters Jorda and Khan started the ball rolling with their double in the Listed Gimcrack Stakes and Listed Breeders Plate at Randwick and continued when his two-year-old filly Madeenaty won Victoria’s first 2YO race of the season in the Listed Maribyrnong Trial Stakes at Flemington.Exceed And Excel sired his 126th stakes winner when the Philip Stokes-trained Serenely Discreet (3 f ex I’m Discreet by Elusive Quality) won the G2 Edward Manifold Stakes for 3YO fillies in a fine trial for the VRC Oaks.
JORDA (Exceed And Excel x Montmelo by Viscount): Godolphin’s homebred filly ran up to her impressive barrier trial win, starting a hopt favourite and holding on for a game win over the unlucky Kanga’s Eye, also by a Darley sire Denman.Trainer John O'Shea said Jorda would most likely be spelled and return for an autumn campaign.
Jorda is one of four foals out of the Group-placed mare Montmelo, a three-quarters sister to the Listed winner Le Mans (Quest For Fame) and half-sister to the stakes-placed winners Pursuits (Lonhro) and Catalonia (Flying Spur).Her second dam Road To Glory (Provideo) is a half-sister to the stakes winner Fastabob (Yeats) and Indian Chief (County) from the family of Group winners Detours (Ad Valorem) and Hioctdane (Strada).
Montmelo had a filly by Lonhro in August.KHAN (Exceed And Excel x Mandawara by Daylami): The Peter and Paul Snowden-trained Khan lacks size but boasts a sharp turn of foot, running home hard from midfield to beat the trial star Condor Heroes and give his trainers a second successive Breeders Plate for James Harron Bloodstock after last year’s win with Capitalist.
Khan was bred at Glenlogan Park in Queensland from the unraced Daylami mare Mandawara, who was bought for €30,000 by Neil Jenkinson from the draft of the Aga Khan Studs at the 2010 Arqana December Breeding Stock Sale.Khan is the only starter among three named foals out of Mandawara, a three-quarter sister to the stakes-placed Manndawi (Dalakhani) and a half-sister to the multiple G1 winner Manighar (Linamix) and G3 winner Minatlya (Linamix).
His second dam, the stakes-placed Mintly Fresh (Rubiano), has produced six winners from 10 foals and is out of the stakes-placed mare Mintly (Key To The Mint), a half-sister to the G1 winner Minstrel’s Lassie (The Minstrel).MADEENATY (Exceed And Excel x Set For Fame by Reset): The $775,000 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale purchase by Shadwell Australasia from the draft of Segenhoe Stud is trained by the David Hayes, Ben Hayes and Tom Dabernig partnership.
David Hayes said Madeenaty was the benchmark among the stable's early season two-year-olds."She's been the fastest. We've got some nice ones but it would take a good one to beat her." he said.
Madeenaty’s dam Set For Fame, owned by Segenhoe Stud, won five time including three G2 races for Peter Moody.She has produced two foals to race and in an a rare coincidence they both won races on Sunday with Madeenaty’s older half sister Kylie’s Fame (More Than Ready) successful at the Sunshine Coast for her second win in 12 starts.
Set For Fame produced a filly by I Am Invincible last month.Mandeenaty’s second dam Northpoint (Dehere) is a half-sister to the Listed Hareeba Stakes winner Bond Street (Testa Rossa) and is related to the Group winner Rubicall, the dam of G2 Stutt Stakes winner Divine Calling (Stratum).
SERENELY DISCREET (Exceed And Excel x I’m Discreet by Elusive Quality): The SOuth Australian-trained filly took her record to three wins from five starts and prize money of $205,100.Bred by South Australia’s David Peacock, Serenely Discreet is out of the dual Listed winner I’m Discreet (Elusive Quality), a half-sister to four-time Listed winner and G1-placed Very Discreet (Exceed And Excel) and Listed winner Forever Discreet (Bernardini).
Serenely Discreet is the first foal out of I’m Discreet, who is from the prolific family of stakes winners Be Discreet (Euclase), Gilded Angel (Made Of Gold), My Advocator (At Talaq) and Just Discreet (Exceed And Excel).Maybe Discreet (Shamardal), a winner of the G1 Australasian Oaks, was another filly from the family to win the Edward Manifold Stakes in 2012 when trained by Stokes.
I’m Discreet has a filly by Denman and is in foal to Brazen Beau.Serenely Discreet could back up in next Saturday’s G1 Thousand Guineas at Caulfield before continuing on to the G1 VRC Oaks at Flemington through the Wakeful Stakes.