After setting the bar high last season with a record-equalling number of individual juvenile winners, Snitzel is on track to give the record a shake again this term.
When the James Cummings-trained Exceeds opened her winning account in Saturday's Australian Fire Hose Plate (1000m) at Randwick, she became the 16th two-year-old winner in Australia this season. That's ten more than his closest pursuers.
Despite finishing fourth at Canterbury when making her racetrack debut in what looks an excellent form race, Exceeds eased in the market to start at $20.
Ahead of
Ridden by Brenton Avdulla, Exceeds wore down the
All four came out of the 2016 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling sale.
A $250,000 purchase by DGR Thoroughbred Services out of the Musk Creek consignment, Exceeds (pictured as a yearling) sports a sharp pedigree.
She is the third foal of the 2-time winning Exceed And Excel mare Exceedingly Happy who is a half-sister to Group I AJC Epsom Handicap winner Rock Kingdom (Rock Of Gibraltar) and the smart stakes-placed sprinter Happy Glen (Happy Giggle).
Exceedingly Happy has a yearling filly by All Too Hard and a colt foal by Pierro. She was bred back to Written Tycoon last spring.
