Excellent Art is off to an excellent start at stud with six winners and his first black-type arrived on Saturday courtesy of precocious filly Experience at the Curragh.

Experience (2f Excellent Art – Kloonlara by Green Desert) was bred by Ballydoyle trainer Aidan O’Brien and his wife Anne-Marie under their Whisperview Trading banner.  She is a half-sister to Italian Listed winner Tellovoi (Indian Haven).

Excellent Art (Pivotal) was a G2 winner of the Mill Reef Stakes before Coolmore bought him for a lucrative three year-old season that included a G1 victory in the St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot.

His daughter Experience is raced by Coolmore associate Derrick Smith.  She won a Navan maiden by two lengths on June 15 and captured the G3 Balanchine Stakes by a similar margin on Saturday.

Excellent Art hails from the family of Chief’s Crown and his first Australian bred yearlings averaged in excess of $65,000 at the 2011 majors.  He will stand the 2011 season at Coolmore Australia for an $11,000 (inc gst) fee.

Experience will be set for the G1 Moyglare Stud Stakes back at the Curragh on August 28.  “She has a touch of class but wants better ground than this like a lot by her sire,” trainer David Wachman said.  “She is very straightforward, with plenty of size and strength and a high cruising speed.

Coolmore claimed last year’s Moyglare Stud Stakes with Misty For Me and she added another G1 to her record at the Curragh on Saturday.

Misty For Me (3f Galileo – Butterfly Cove by Storm Cat) won the Pretty Polly Stakes by six lengths from hot favourite Midday (Oasis Dream).  The Galileo filly also has G1 wins to her credit in the Prix Marcel Boussac and Irish 1,000 Guineas. 

The G1 Irish Oaks on July 17 is next on Misty For Me’s dance card.  She is from an unraced half-sister to Coolmore colt Fasliyev who was a G1 winner of the Phoenix.