Second Stakes victory for Just Discreet

Racing first-up, five-year-old Exceed And Excel mare Just Discreet continued a great family tradition of black-type success, achieving her second Stakes win with victory in the G3 Spring Stakes over 6f at Morphettville, Australia on August 10.

A previous winner of the Listed Matrice Stakes at the same course, the Phillip Stokes-trained mare sat off the pace set by the eventual runner-up, the four-year-old mare Meliora, before overpowering her to record a dominant length-and-a-half win.

Bred by David Peacock, Just Discreet is out of the Stakes placed Bluebird mare Oh So Discreet, a half-sister to the G3 winners Gilded Angel, Be Discreet and She’s Discreet (dam of Listed winners I’m Discreet and Very Discreet) as well as the Listed winners My Advocator and Oahu. The dam of not only Just Discreet, but Shamardal’s G1 winner Maybe Discreet, Oh So Discreet has visited a Darley Australia stallion at each of her ten years at stud.

The sire of 71 international Stakes winners, Exceed And Excel was crowned the Australian Champion Sire of the 2012/13 racing season, where he was represented by the winners of all three legs of the Two-year-old Triple Crown through the deeds of exciting fillies Overreach and Guelph.