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Filly becomes stakes winner number 170 for Exceed And Excel.
The Chris Waller-trained September Run (2 f ex Pittsburgh Flyer by Street Cry) ran out a ready winner of the Bill Carter Stakes (Listed, 1110m) at Doomben on Saturday and in the process provided Exceed And Excel (Danehill) with his 170th stakes winner.
September Run went straight to the lead and held on by a half-neck to beat Plutocrat (Rich Enuff) with a neck back to Gotta Kiss (Not A Single Doubt) in third.
Waller's Queensland manager Paul Shailer said the filly had been in good form since arriving in Queensland after her last-start win at Canterbury in Sydney on May 6.
"Chris sent her up here to build up her rating and get some black-type for the spring," Shailer said.
"Chris has the knack of sending the right horses up here for the right races and the fillies seem to do very well spelling in the Queensland sunshine so she might be one to watch in the future.
"She will obviously be a nice broodmare later and to get black-type today was a good start."
Purchased by Hermitage Thoroughbreds for $380,000 at the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale from the Blue Gum Farm draft, September Run is the first foal out of Group 3 winner Pittsburgh Flyer (Street Cry), who is herself out of South African Grade 2 winner Warning Zone (Elliodor).
Further back this is the family of Grade 1 scorers Record Edge (Sunny North) and Golden Peak (Peacetime), Grade 2 winner Magical Wonderland (What A Winter), Grade 3 winners Dance At Daylight (Rambo Dancer) and Magico (Dupont) and Listed scorer Mr Mickey Mouse (Muhtafal).
Pittsburgh Flyer's filly by American Pharoah (Pioneerof The Nile) was purchased by Hirsch Racing for $100,000 at the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale and after missing to Merchant Navy (Fastnet Rock) in 2018, she was covered by the son of Fastnet Rock (Danehill) again last year. The mare herself was a $500,000 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale purchase in 2018 by Go Bloodstock Australia and Paul Moroney Bloodstock.
The filly becomes the third stakes winner bred on his cross, joining Signora Queen and Promotions.
Exceed And Excel - has now sired 12 stakes winners so far this season - and he will stand for a career high fee of $132,000 (inc GST) in 2020, having stood for $88,000 (inc GST) last season.
Later on in the afternoon, September Run's stablemate Wu Gok (Sebring) landed the Lord Mayor's Cup (Listed, 2000m), providing Hermitage Thoroughbreds with an across state stakes double.
