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Standing at: Vinery Stud.
Exceedance (2016)
Breeding: Exceed and Excel - Bonnie Mac by Thorn Park
Standing at: Vinery Stud, NSW
Fee: $38,500 (inc GST)
Brilliant Coolmore Stud Stakes (registered as Ascot Vale Stakes) (Gr 1, 1200m) winner Exceedance (Exceed And Excel) will take up stud duties at Vinery Stud in 2020 where he will stand for a fee of $38,500 (inc GST).
By Darley's exceptional stallion Exceed And Excel (Danehill) - who himself was raised at the Hunter Valley-based farm - Exceedance was purchased by Vinery for $180,000 at the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale from the Newgate Farm draft.
Exceedance won on debut as a two-year-old, before coming out and winning the San Domenico Stakes (Gr 3, 1100m) on his first start as a three-year-old.
The colt then finished third behind Bivouac (Exceed And Excel) and Yes Yes Yes (Rubick) in both The Run To Rose (Gr 2, 1200m) and Golden Rose Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m).
The Team Hawkes-trained colt's crowning glory came on his next start when he turned the tables on a high-class pair, when defeating a stellar field in the stallion-making Coolmore Stud Stakes, showing an explosive turn of foot to land the Group 1 at Flemington last November.
"All credit to the horse, he looked after me once things went wrong early. He travelled up nicely and I knew what was under the bonnet," said Dwayne Dunn following the Coolmore Stud Stakes victory.
"He's got a great attitude and can really accelerate. He's from a high-class family – I rode his mother to win a stakes race in Adelaide."
He retires the winner of the three of his nine career starts which saw him amass $1,181,115 in career prize-money.
The colt is the only winner out of the five-time winner Bonnie Mac (Thorn Park), who won the Proud Miss Stakes (Listed, 1200m) and is herself a half-sister to Group 3-winning pair Upham (Mastercraftsman) and Intimate Moment (Dubawi) and Listed scorer Gold Rum (Golan).
Exceedance will stand alongside another son of Exceed And Excel in Headwater, as well as the likes of All Too Hard (Casino Prince), Press Statement (Hinchinbrook) and Star Turn (Star Witness).
Exceedance's highest Timeform rating was 125 following his win in the Coolmore Stud Stakes.
