Exceed And Excel mare captures Listed Matrice

Resuming from a 10 week spell, four-year-old Exceed And Excel mare Just Discreet captured the Listed Matrice Stakes over 6.5f at Morphettville on 23 March in Australia to become the 66th international Stakes winner for her sire.

In what was an amazing day for Exceed And Excel, siring three individual Stakes winners, he was not only represented by Just Discreet, but by the G2-winning juvenile Overreach who became a dominant G1 Golden Slipper favourite when winning the Moet & Chandon Stakes at Rosehill, while his daughter Camporella won her second consecutive Stakes race, taking out the Listed Gimcrack Stakes in Perth.

Bred by David Peacock, Just Discreet is out of the Stakes placed Bluebird mare Oh So Discreet, a half-sister to G2 winner Be Discreet, Gilded Angel, She’s Discreet (dam of I’m Discreet (Elusive Quality) and Very Discreet (Exceed And Excel)), My Advocator and Oahu. Oh So Discreet has now produced three Stakes performers from five runners with G3-winning Shamardal filly Maybe Discreet and the Stakes placed Always Discreet (Exceed And Excel) joining Just Discreet. Oh So Discreet has a yearling colt by Commands, a weanling colt by Lonhro and was covered by Lonhro once again in the latest breeding season.

As the sire of more Stakes winners in 2013 than another other sire, Exceed And Excel is represented internationally by 66 Stakes winners including G1 winners Reward For Effort, Excelebration, Margot Did and Darley’s three-time G1- winning stallion Helmet.

The sire of more Stakes-winning two-year-olds since 2008 than any other stallion worldwide, Exceed And Excel stands at Dalham Hall Stud at a fee of £35,000 October 1st SLF, while Helmet stands at Kildangan Stud at a fee of €10,000.