EXCEED PERFECTION
VIEW PEDIGREE WRITE-UP Exceed And Excel x Perfect Rhyme Colt
Crowned Australia's Champion Sire in 2012/13, the dual Gr.1 winning Exceed And Excel - with his 193 stakes winners (including 16 Gr.1 winners) - is one of the legendary Danehill's finest sons.
Along with Lonhro, Exceed And Excel is Australia's longest serving stallion and he just keeps doing the job in both hemispheres with his 1589 individual winners successful throughout the world - Australia, New Zealand, England, Ireland, French, Italy, Germany, Canada, America, South Africa, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Macau, Dubai, India, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Argentina, Turkey, Mauritius and Qatar... what a stallion!
Boasting progeny earnings in excess of $232 million, Exceed And Excel is not only high class but consistent with a winners-to-runners strike rate just short of 70% whilst 8.4% of his runners have been successful at stakes level
And over 41% of his winners are either stakes winners, stakes placed or metropolitan winners - giving you a great chance of a nice horse!
Especially when you have one of his sons of a good race mare, such as this fellow whose dam Perfect Rhyme showed plenty of talent placing at her Warwick Farm debut at two - at three splitting the Gr.1 fillies Bonneval and Lasqueti Spirit in the Gr.1 ATC Oaks at Randwick.
She was still in form in strong company at four, second in the Gr.3 Tibbie Stakes and a most unlucky fifth in the Gr.3 Aspiration Stakes. Winning from 1400m to 1600m, she was capable on firm and wet tracks - amassing over $365,000 in stakes.
And changing hands as a broodmare prospect for $375,000!
This colt is her first foal and he was bred by and raised at historic Kia Ora Stud who in recent years have produced such outstanding performers as Wild Ruler, Wellington and Exceed And Excel himself.
One of Dubawi's best sons, the Gr.1 galloper Poet's Voice - successful sire of 23 stakes winners - is this colt's dam sire - and he has made a most encouraging start to his career as a broodmare sire with his daughters already producing 14 winners. No surprise he is doing well with Dubawi already represented by 39 stakes winners as a broodmare sire - four of those being Gr.1 winners.
Perfect Rhyme is out of the Danehill mare Dagmar, a winning half-sister to the Listed Black Opal Stakes winner You're Canny out of the Gr.3 sprinter Techniques - a Palace Music half-sister to the Gr.3 winner Alert Me.
This is a family that has been producing quality performers for generations, its other members including the Gr.1 winners Ugo Foscolo, With Me and Accomplice, the stakes winners Given, Green Roller, Big Alloy, Quarante Love and Kiss A Love - as well as last spring's brilliant Listed Maribyrnong Plate debut winner Get In The Spirit.
This colt is bred on a close 2 X 3 cross of Danehill noting that of the 26 Exceed And Excel runners whose dams are out of Danehill mares 24 are winners including his best daughter - the four times Gr.1 winner Guelph.
Exceed And Excel also does a great job with Mr Prospector mare lines which Perfect Rhyme is... he and that great stallion combining in the pedigrees of 161 stakes winners including 16 Gr.1 winners. Little surprise that this cross works with Exceed And Excel's dam sire Lomond being closely related to Mr Prospector.