Breednet’s popular First Season Sire Gallery pages are now created offering a fast and easy way to compare yearlings by the new wave of sires on type, so let’s take a look at Vinery Stud’s drop dead gorgeous looking stallion Exceedance.
Exceedance
Exceedance was a $180,000 Inglis Easter purchase from the Newgate Farm draft and retired as a Group I winner of $1.1 million in prizemoney.
Precocious enough to win on debut at two over 1100m, he was quickly into stride at three to resume from a winter break and beat Bivouac by two lengths in the Group III ATC San Domenico Stakes (1100m). Exceedance then chased him and Everest winner Yes Yes Yes home for third in the Group II ATC Run to the Rose and Group I ATC Golden Rose.
His career defining win came at his next start when he turned the tables on Bivouac to win the Group I VRC Coolmore Stud Stakes (1200m) with glamour filly Libertini in third place.
Exceedance forges clear of Bivouac to win the G1 Coolmore Stud Stakes - image Grant Courtney
On the pedigree front, Exceedance is by champion sire Exceed and Excel from stakes-winning sprinter Bonnie Mac, who only had four foals, three have raced and all are stakes-winners and grand-dam Gold Class, also left four stakes-winners, so Black Type performance really is inherent with this family.
He has 20 yearlings catalogued in Books 1 and 2 with images below.
