EXCEED AND EXCEL the outstanding sire by Danehill has just reached the remarkable milestone of 100 individual Black Type performers with currently 54 Stakes Winners and 46 Stakes Placed horses and 534 individual winners to his credit. With his first crop going to the races in 2007 making his oldest as having just turned 7yo’s, from 6 crops to have raced, achieving 100 Black Type performers is extraordinary.
EXCEED AND EXCEL
As part of the enormous Darley Stud roster, very little is spent advertising his deeds to the marketplace. No doubt if he was standing elsewhere with a marketing machine behind him he would be considered as a competitive peer to Fastnet Rock.
Fastnet Rock
When you compare the statistics of the two sons of Danehill, I will let you be the judge. It makes for very interesting reading:
Fastnet Rocks’ oldest have just turned 6yo’s meaning he has one less crop of racing age than Exceed And Excel.
His first crop went to the races in 2008.
From 5 crops to have raced, Fastnet Rock stats are shown below (with Exceed And Excel figures are recorded in Brackets):
69 Individual Black Type Performers (100)
35 Stakes Winners (54)
34 Stakes Placed Horses (46)
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265 individual winners / 411 runners = 64.4% (534 iw / 821 r = 65.0%)
Fastnet Rock Service Fee for 2012 = $220,000
Exceed And Excel Service Fee for 2012 = $66,000
There is no doubt that Exceed And Excel is suffering a little in recognition for his deeds with the “out of sight out of mind” stigma, yet his progeny’s racetrack deeds need little external hype.
In the past few decades, many North Hemisphere stallions have shuttled to Australia and other Southern Hemisphere destinations, but only a handful of Southern Hemisphere stallions have reversed shuttled to the US or Europe. The latest news is that Champion Sire Redoute’s Choice (a son of Danehill), will shuttle to France from Australia in 2013.
Of those that have reversed shuttled, most have not made an impression. Argentinian sire Southern Halo led their sire lists for more than ten years, but aside from his leading runner and now outstanding sire More Than Ready, he left nothing else of note from his few crops conceived in Kentucky.
Champion sire Encosta de Lago went to Ireland, where he got a handful of decent winners but didn’t have the success expected.
That is why globally accomplished sires such as Danehill are so highly valued, because they are so rare.
It is only fitting that a another son of Danehill is starting to make a name for himself in both hemispheres.
Exceed and Excel was bred in Australia and is out of the US-bred mare Patrona. She is by Lomond.
Patrona is the dam of five winners, including the SW Enemy of Average.
Exceed and Excel’s second dam is the SW Gladiolus, who produced three SWs in the US, Canada, and Europe.
Foaled in 2000, Exceed and Excel won two of four starts at two, including the G2 Todman Slipper Trial.
At three, he won five of seven starts and was named Champion sprinter of the 2003/04 season.
He won his final race, the G1 Newmarket H. at (six furlongs) 1200m, in March of 2004 before journeying to England, where he finished well back in the G1 July Cup at Newmarket.
That was his final race before he was retired to stud in Australia.
His first crop contained four SWs, the best of which was Gr2 winner Wilander. His leading runners in Australia include G1 winners Helmet and Reward for Effort.
Helmet
Reward For Effort
Exceed and Excel also shuttled to England, siring his first European crop of foals in 2006. This group counts SWs Infamous Angel (G2 Lowther S.) and Masamah (G2 King George S.) among them.
Subsequent European-bred crops include G1 winners Excelebration and Margot Did.
Recently, Exceed and Excel had two 2-year-old SWs in England. Bungle Inthejungle won the G3 Molecomb S. and Heavy Metal won the G2 Richmond S.
Exceed and Excel has 54 SWs in both Australia and Europe, with 12 at Group Class level in Europe and six in Australia. He has two G1 winners in each hemisphere.
And while his progeny do have a handful of stakes wins at 1800m – 2000m, the majority of them prefer distances under 1800m.
He sires precocious offspring, as over 60% of his SWs are two-year-old SWs.
Like his sire Danehill, Exceed and Excel is one of those rare stallions that exceed in both hemispheres. He stood the 2012 northern season at Dalham Hall Stud for £22,500 and is currently covering mares this Spring at Darley for $66,000.
He is proving to be a value anywhere.
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