QUEENSLAND's loss maybe the Central Districts gain with young Group winning Exceed And Excel horse Furnaces available at Allandale Park, Hobbys Yards, near Bathurst.
Beginning his stud career at Aquis Farm in south-east Queensland, the Darley-bred and raced Furnaces galloped himself into Golden Slipper contention when winning two juvenile races including the celebrated Sydney feature ATC Kindergarten Stakes-G3.
The colt went on to defeat Headwater when finishing second to champion two-year-old Vancouver in the ATC Todman Slipper Trial Stakes-G2. In that race Furnaces was only beaten by about two lengths by Vancouver, another colt who went on to win the Group 1 Golden Slipper Stakes.
A pure speed horse, Furnaces also finished second in the 1100 metres sprint test ATC Lonhro Plate-LR. As a three-year-old, Furnaces had a win in the Hawkesbury feature Gold Rush Plate, and was third in the MVRC Ian McEwen Stakes-G2 in Melbourne to Group 1 winners Chautauqua and Flamberge.
A relation to champion Melito, he was produced from mare Heat Of The Fire.
