Woodlands Stakes at Naas winner Sceptical is SW172 for Exceed And Excel.
Bred by Godolphin, Sceptical sold and for just £2,800 at last year’s Goffs UK August Sale as an unraced three-year-old gelding.
He is a half-brother to the Gr3 Anglesey Stakes at the Curragh third Queen Of Sicily (Cape Cross), out of Jealous Again (Trippi).
She was trained by Wesley Ward and came to Royal Ascot to win the Gr2 Queen Mary Stakes by five lengths.
Exceed And Excel (Danehill) shuttles between Darley farms in Australia and England. His fee at Darley Kelvinside in New South Wales is advertised at $132,000 in 2020.