Exceed And Excel’s extraordinary ability to sire juvenile winners was again on display when professional colt Barber won the $1 million Golden Gift at Rosehill Gardens in Sydney on Saturday, 5 November.
Having his second start after a first-up win at Royal Randwick two weeks earlier, Barber overcame a tardy start from his wide barrier and at least two checks in the run to wear down Infatuation. Summer Loving another of Exceed And Excel’s juvenile stars finished off strongly to take third in the 1,100m scamper.
Barber is out of the Lonhro mare Trim, a winner of two Stakes races and the dam of dual Stakes winner Manicure.
Exceed And Excel’s reputation as the world’s best sire of juveniles was gratified further when Mischief Magic saluted at the highest level in the G1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint at Keenland overnight.
The win provided Exceed And Excel with his seventeenth individual G1 winner, and two high-class juvenile victories in two continents in just twelve hours.
A dual G1 winner during a racetrack career that yielded six wins in Stakes company, Exceed And Excel has sired 559 two-year-old winners worldwide of 772 races, 84 of these individual winners being at Stakes level.
Overall, the stallion has an amazing 1702 winners of 5678 races worth more than $246 million in prize money.
Exceed And Excel leads the stallion roster at Darley’s Kelvinside property in the NSW Hunter Valley, standing for a service fee of $132,000 (GST inclusive).
