Darley first-season stallions Exceed And Excel and Kheleyf had a successful Sunday when fillies Mrs Kipling and Definite Opinion scored in Italy and Ireland.
Mrs Kipling, who is trained by Simon Callaghan, was having her fourth start and recorded her second victory when taking the Listed Premio Divino Amore at Rome.
Bred by J Osborne, Mrs Kipling is the second winner from the unraced Carnegie mare, Quinzey, whose first was the Noverre gelding Stanley George. She has been bred back to fellow Darley stallions Xaar, by whom she has a yearling filly and her colt foal is by Kheleyf.
Exceed And Excel, who was champion freshman sire in Australia last season, has now sired three Stakes winners from his first European crop, after Infamous Angel took the G2 Lowther Stakes and Flashmans Papers (pictured) won the Listed Windsor Castle Stakes at Royal Ascot.
Just ahead of Exceed And Excel in the European first-season sires' table is Kheleyf, who sired his twenty-sixth individual winner from his impressive first crop on Sunday, when Definite Opinion took the competitive six-furlong Nursery at the Curragh.
Bred by Edward and Mrs S Hannigan, she is the second foal of winning Indian Ridge mare Mainstream Opinion and a half-sister to current Stakes placed three-year-old Different Opinion (by Noverre).
Other Darley stallions to taste success on Sunday were Green Desert and Diktat, courtesy of two G3-winning fillies. Only Answer (Green Desert) took her second course and distance pattern race when scoring in the Prix du Petit Couvert at Longchamp and Lady Gloria (Diktat) won her second G3 race of the season when taking the Select Stakes at Goodwood.
Other notable performances on Sunday came in the G1 Prix Vermeille at Longchamp, when Singspiel filly Dar Re Mi finished a gallant runner-up behind Zarkava with Treat Gently, by Cape Cross, in third.
