Exceed And Excel sired a new Stakes winner from his first European crop on Sunday when Mrs Kipling scored in 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 two fellow Darley stallions and has a yearling filly by Xaar and a colt foal by Europe's leading first-season sire, 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. He currently sits second in the European first-season sires' table.
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, third.
