With Exceed And Excel only a few weeks away from being crowned leading second-crop sire in Australia, he is also continuing the great start he has made at stud in the northern hemisphere.
He is currently leading sire of two-year-olds in Britain and Ireland with 12 winners to his name. His fellow Darley sire Kheleyf, who was the leading first-crop sire numerically in 2008 and shuttles to Australia for the first time this year, has sired nine juvenile winners in Britain and Ireland this season and is currently lying in third place. Exceed And Excel is also the leading second-crop sire in Europe by number of winners.
Among Exceed And Excel's leading performers in the northern hemisphere this year are Mrs Kipling - not to be confused with his Australian-bred daughter of the same name who is also a Stakes winner. Mrs Kipling (IRE) is out of the Carnegie mare Quinzey and won the G3 Senorita Stakes at Hollywood Park in May, before which she had finished runner-up in the G2 Providencia Stakes. The globe-trotting filly won a two-year-old maiden in England and a Listed contest in Rome before being sold at the end of her juvenile season to race in the US.
Other European-bred black-type performers this season for Exceed And Excel include Lukrecia, runner-up in the G3 Schwarzgold-Rennen in Cologne, Ceedwell, who was third in the G2 Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot and the American 1000 Guineas runner-up Excelente. He is also sire of G1 Blue Diamond Stakes winner Reward For Effort and G2 Lowther Stakes winner Infamous Angel.
