Excellent Mares!

Tara Madgwick - Thursday January 19

Exceed and Excel is going to be a big mover on the Australian Broodmare Sire List after Thursday having sired the dams of three individual winners on the lucrative Magic Millions day at the Gold Coast.

He sired the dams of Magic Millions 2YO Classic winner Skirt the Law, read about her here.

Also Magic Millions 3YO Guineas winner Fashion Legend, read about him here.

And Magic Millions Syndicate winner Centrefire, read about her here.

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Interestingly, Fashion Legend and Centrefire are three-quarter siblings in-blood as their sires Deep Field and Shooting to Win are brothers.

Turning 23 this year, Exceed and Excel is the sire of over 200 stakes-winners worldwide and as a broodmare sire his daughters have left 79 stakes-winners, 12 of them Group I winners. 

Click here to see his sale results for MM last week.

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