Impressive Start From Exceed and Excel Filly

6th-NC, £5,500, Mdn, 9-30, 2yo, f, 6f (AWT), 1:12.09, st.
+CASTLEACRE (GB) (f, 2, Exceed and Excel {Aus}–Cloud Castle {GB} {GSW & G1SP-Eng, G1SP-Fr, $156,817}, by In the Wings {GB}) attracted notable support into 6-4 favouritism and raced keenly towards the fore throughout the early stages before tanking her way to the front before halfway. Shaken up approaching the quarter pole, the homebred surged clear to record an emphatic 4 1/2-length success from Dandy Bird (Ire) (Dandy Man {Ire}). Castleacre is a daughter of the G3 Nell Gwyn S. winner Cloud Castle, who was also fourth in the G1 1000 Guineas and G1 Epsom Oaks and runner-up in the G1 Prix Vermeille and third in the G1 Yorkshire Oaks under the enterprising campaigner Clive Brittain. Among her progeny is the listed winner and G3 Prix Minerve runner-up Reverie Solitaire (Ire) (Nashwan), SW & MGSP-Fr, $125,894, and dam of this year's G2 Badener Meile winner and G1 Grosser Dallmayr-Preis runner-up Royal Solitaire (Ire) (Shamardal), the listed scorer Urban Castle (Street Cry {Ire}) and the G3 Winter Hill S. winner Queen's Best (GB) (King's Best), GSW-Eng & GSP-Ire, $189,680, who in turn produced this year's G1 Nassau S. runner-up and G1 Yorkshire Oaks third Queen's Trust (GB) (Dansili {GB}). Also a half-sister to Saeed Manana's flag-bearing triumvirate of Warrsan (Ire) (Caerleon), Luso (GB) and Needle Gun (Ire), Cloud Castle has a filly foal by Royal Solitaire's sire Shamardal to come. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $4,614. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.
O-Saeed Manana; B-Rabbah Bloodstock Limited (GB); T-Hugo Palmer.

 

 

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