Chloe proves too classy

Lightly-raced Exceed And Excel mare Chloe In Paris claimed her first stakes success March 7, scoring an all-the-way win in the Listed Bob Hoysted Handicap up the Flemington straight.

G3-placed as a three-year-old on debut in 2013, Chloe In Paris made it three successive wins since returning from an injury-enforced spell. Flamberge, a G3-winning son of Exceed And Excel finished third.

A homebred for Des Pope, Chloe In Paris is out of G2-winning and G1-placed Rubiton mare Innovation Girl, also the dam of G3-placed The Original.

Exceed And Excel has enjoyed a tremendous start to 2015, siring seven individual Stakes winners which places him second worldwide behind only Medaglia d'Oro who has nine Stakes winners for the year. Among Exceed And Excel's 2015 Stakes winners are G2-winning juvenile Headwater, G3 winner Mamwaazel and unbeaten Golden Slipper contender Haptic.