EXCEED AND EXCEL and MEDAGLIA D’ORO head Darley Australia Roster at $110,000

27 Apr 15

Darley Australia have announced a 100% increase in the service fee of boom sire MEDAGLIA D’ORO from $55,000 to $110,000 to match Darley’s champion sire of 2yo’s EXCEED AND EXCEL who also stands at $110,000.

MEDAGLIA D'ORO

Their full list of stud fees for their 21 stallions that will stand in New South Wales and Victoria for the forthcoming 2015 breeding season has their top two stallions sharing honours.

World-leaders Exceed And Excel and Medaglia d'Oro head the roster standing at a fee of $110,000 (inc. GST).

EXCEED AND EXCEL

Exceed And Excel’s ability to produce top-class two-year-old performers has never been more evident than this season where he has set the pace with 12 winners and no fewer than five individual 2yo Stakes Winners. He is once again poised to be crowned Champion two-year-old sire.

Hot on Exceed And Excel’s heels on the two-year-old sires’ list is Medaglia d’Oro, whose unbeaten son Vancouver became his 13th worldwide G1 winner when he claimed the Golden Slipper.

In recent weeks, Medaglia d’Oro has sired Group winners in Australia, the United States and France, making this an incredible period of success for him.

With sensational sire I AM INVINCIBLE which stands close by at Yarraman Park saw a rise in his Service Fee jumping to $55,000 (inc. GST), it’s exciting news that Darley are set to stand his dual Gr1 Winning son BRAZEN BEAU who is currently the highest-rated three-year-old in the world, joining Darley’s Victorian roster at Northwood Park where he will stand at $44,000 (inc. GST).

The brilliant winner of the G1 Coolmore Stud Stakes last spring, he went on to defeat a world-class field of older sprinters in the G1 Newmarket Handicap last month. Brazen Beau now travels to Europe where he will aim to showcase his outstanding talent once again at Royal Ascot in June.

Unbeaten Group-winning juvenile and multiple G1 winner HALLOWED CROWN retires to Kelvinside in New South Wales, the resting place of his legendary grandsire STREET CRY and will stand at $33,000 (inc. GST).

Following his victories in the G1 Golden Rose and G1 Randwick Guineas, only Brazen Beau was rated his superior among three-year-olds of 2014-15.

Hallowed Crown is out of the Group-winning Golden Slipper second Crowned Glory and hails from the family of Champion stallion Zabeel.

Also runner-up in his generation’s Golden Slipper, Exceed And Excel’s talented son SIDESTEP will stand alongside Hallowed Crown at Kelvinside at a fee of $11,000 (inc. GST).

Winner of the G2 Pago Pago Stakes, Sidestep was the highest-rated two-year-old colt of his generation and claimed multiple Stakes victories at three including the G2 Royal Sovereign Stakes, where he defeated G1 winners Bounding and Chautauqua.

Darley’s Head of Sales in Australia Alastair Pulford, said, "It has been another fantastic 12 months for our stallions and we are very proud of their achievements on the racetrack. Our stallions have sired the winners of 24% of the Group races run in Australia this season, including 11 G1 victories.

Dynamic Syndications has purchased yearlings by EXCEED AND EXCEL (not yet taken to market) and MEDAGLIA D’ORO – already fully syndicated through the GAI WATERHOUSE Stables and have a daughter of I AM INVINCIBLE 70% SOLD through Gai’s stables.