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Standing at: Darley Kelvinside, NSW.

Microphone (2016)
Breeding: Exceed and Excel - Sung by Anabaa
Standing at: Kelvinside Stud, NSW
Fee: $38,500 (inc GST)

Outstanding Group 1 winner Microphone will stand alongside his father - Exceed And Excel (Danehill) - at Darley's Kelvinside Stud base for a fee of $38,500 (inc GST) in 2020. 

Trained by James Cummings, Microphone won four times as a two-year-old which was capped off with a victory in the Sires' Produce Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m) in which he got the better of Golden Slipper Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) winner Kiamichi (Sidestep) and future elite level scorers Probabeel (Savabeel), Loving Gaby (I Am Invincible) and Castelvecchio (Dundeel). 

Microphone's record as a juvenile was exemplary, lining up on six occasions and he never failed to finish anything worse than second, including in the Golden Slipper. Alongside his win in the Sire's Produce, he also claimed the Talindert Stakes (Listed, 1100m) at Flemington before landing the Skyline Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m) at Randwick.

He returned at three to win the Autumn Stakes (Gr 2, 1400m) before posting a good second place finish in a high-class edition of the Randwick Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m).

Out of Listed-winning Anabaa (Danzig) mare Sung, Microphone is himself a half-brother to two winners. Sung is a sister to multiple Group 1 winner Yell, with the pair being out of Listed winner Vocalist (Bluebird), who is herself a half-sister to Group 1 winner Anthems (Palace Music).  This is also the family of Group 1 winner Holler (Commands) and now Arrowfield Stud-based sire Written Tycoon (Iglesia).