Tuesday, 27 July 2010: Group One winning two-year-old Excites will be given every chance to make an impact on the 2010/11 First Season Sires ladder with several of his progeny among the nations leading stables.

Excites at Vinery Stud. Picture by Bronwen Healy

Owner/breeder Peter Moran has ensured that his Excites offspring are given the best start in life by sending them to renowned trainers including Gerald Ryan and four-time Golden Slipper winning trainer Clarry Conners.

Moran is hopeful of seeing his familiar green and white silks in the first two-year-old stakes race of the year, the Breeders Plate at Randwick in October.

I have got five Excites youngsters and four of them are two-year-old types,” Moran said.

I am pretty positive about them being two-year-olds,

They have broken in excellent and are good eaters. They cope with the work which is a good sign.

The one I sent to Gerald Ryan travelled from Brisbane to Sydney and stuck its head straight in the feed bin, so thats a good sign.

When she arrived, Gerald said this filly is just like all the Excites horses he has seen. He said they are like peas in a pod which is another good sign for any stallion.

We are aiming at the trials in late August early September.”

The filly is from the Flying Spur mare Snaps who in turn is from Snapshots, a daughter of Success Express thus giving the filly a cross of Morans successful imported sire.

At just his second race start, Excites split Mentality and Theseo in the Listed T.L Baillieu Stakes before winning the Group One AJC Sires Produce Stakes.

He is the only son of five-time Group One winner and outstanding sire Danewin at stud in the world.

Danewin is an exceptionally well bred horse being a son of Danehill from the Eight Carat family, Moran said.

He has terrific statistics and there is no reason he wont make a sire of sires.

Excites dam Staging was a multiple Group Two winner and Group One placegetter who won over $1 million and is the dam of three Group One performers, Excites, Duporth and Tickets.

Danewin has overcome early obstacles in his career fertility-wise to establish himself as one of the best credentialed Danehill sire sons at stud, Vinerys Adam White said.

You would go a long way to find a better looking horse than Excites, who won a Group One at two then trained on to finished second in the Caulfield Guineas at three.

Excites has proven very popular since retiring to stud in 2007 serving over 100 mares in each of his three season at Vinery and will again be very popular this season.

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