Exceed And Excel filly Best Terms, the winner of the G2 Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot on her last start, added further Group-race glory to her résumé on Thursday with an all-the-way win in the Lowther Stakes at York.
The late May-foaled filly, who passed the post two lengths clear of her rivals to remain unbeaten, was bred by the Barnett family and races in the colours of Robert Barnett. She is out of Sharp Terms, an unraced Kris half-sister to First Charter.
Best Terms has now won four from four, and won her first two starts in April and May before her actual second birthday.
Exceed And Excel is enjoying a tremendous 2011: on Saturday his three-year-old son Excelebration was the runaway six-length winner of the G2 Hungerford Stakes at Newbury, while Masamah won the G2 King George Stakes at Glorious Goodwood in July. Another colt, the G1 winner Helmet, was one of the best juveniles racing in Australia last season and aided his sire in achieving a record haul of 23 juvenile winners for the 2010/2011 racing season.
Standing the forthcoming season at Darley Kelvinside at a fee of $66,000 (inc GST), Exceed And Excel is once again expected to cover a sensational book of star quality mares. His current book of two-year-olds and yearlings includes the progeny of G1-winning mares Champagne, Miss Andretti, Mnemosyne, Virage de Fortune and Rinky Dink.
