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Off To An Excellent Start
Exceed And Excel sires fastest pair at Cranbourne trials

Can you spot the similarities between these 2 horses?

Both have similar strong shoulders and hindquarters.
Both have good bone volume to allow for more growth and weight bearing for racing.
They both have the same white markings as their Father, Exceed and Excel.
The Concert Star colt has longer rein and is carrying far more baby fat than the Rose Archway filly allowing for more -Improvement in the future.
The Concert Star is some 3 months younger in this photo than the Rose Archway.
A 10% share in the Rose Archway would be @ $65,000 - 70,000 if available.
A 10% share in the Concert Star Colt is just $15,575 in comparison!

Courtesy of www.darley.com.au and www.breednet.com.au

Off To An Excellent Start

Exceed And Excel sires fastest pair at Cranbourne trials

With the new season of two-year-old racing looming, Cranbourne trials on Monday were naturally a hive of activity as the sharpest of the new batch of juveniles aimed to prove their credentials ahead of the big spring races in Melbourne. The message from the morning was clear: the Exceed And Excel are ready to run.

On a dead track, there were eight two-year-old trials over 800m, four for colts and geldings and four for fillies. The results couldn’t have provided a more emphatic affirmation of Exceed And Excel’s promise, because he was responsible for the fastest winner of each sex.

First off was Exceedingly Good, a very powerful bay son of the Listed-placed Snippets mare Common Smytzer. This imposing individual had realised $400,000 when bought by Lee Freedman at the Easter Yearling Sale in Sydney, and Freedman must be very happy with the purchase following this demonstration of ability: under merely gentle encouragement from Corey Brown, Exceedlingly Good came home one and a half lengths to the good, stopping the clock at 46.78. This time was 0.79 seconds quicker than that posted by the winner of the second fastest colts’ trial, and has ensured that Exceedingly Good will be exceedingly well supported when he makes his debut.

Remarkably, that time was not the fastest of the day, because one of the fillies ran 46.60 in winning her trial: the Exceed And Excel filly Sugar Babe. Another inmate of Freedman’s Rye stable, this attractive bright bay daughter of the Group Two-winning Zeditave mare On Type coasted to the line under Matthew Allan for a hugely impressive two-length win. Freedman completely dominated this eye-catchingly fast trial, supplying the first four fillies across the line, with the runner-up also being a daughter of Exceed And Excel. This filly, Alnwick, has also to be rated a very exciting prospect as her pedigree suggests that she will continue to improve as she matures: a $625,000 graduate of the Sydney Easter Sale, she is a daughter of the 2001 AJC Oaks winner Rose Archway.

With two other Exceed And Excel juveniles – Excelify, a son of the Kingmambo mare Catherine Howard, and Solar Strike, a daughter of Solar Circle’s half-sister Unrocel Tap – having also been made the frame in their trials, this was an extremely good day at the office for the stock of Exceed And Excel.

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The Race is now on in earnest against EI

The race is now on in earnest in Newcastle against EI. Surrounding areas, all about 10km away like Heatherbrae, Meadowie and Woodbury have enclosed the Newcastle area with positive tests to Equine Influenza.

All trainers at Newcastle are eagerly awaiting the arrival of much needed vaccination shots (due today) and a lot of luck in the following week to allow the horses to build up immunity to the virus. If horses can get to the end of next weekend Oct 6^th/7th without contracting EI, experts are of the belief that they will have built up enough immunity to get through any outbreak of the virus should it arrive at the Broadmeadow racecourse.

Sports Syndications has 2 horses in training with Kris Lees at present, Boncoeur and Our Vegas Dream. These horses and all Sports Syndications syndicated horses are EI free and we take this opportunity to congratulate and thank all staff at Newcastle Racecourse and Empire Park for their hard work and vigilance during these very tough few weeks.

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