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Electrifying Gr.1 winning sprinter Exceedance will commence stud duties at Vinery Stud for the 2020 breeding season.
Vinery General Manager Peter Orton said the decision was made after discussions with Team Hawkes.
Exceedance is a son of Exceed And Excel who was raised at Vinery. “I’m a big fan of the sireline and Exceedance caught our eye with his presence and attitude as a yearling,” Orton recalled. “He looked a beautiful mover with a great eye and plenty of scopes to keep developing.”
Exceedance demonstrated his natural talent on debut as a juvenile when winning in a spectacular last to first performance. The race commentator portrayed the win in dramatic fashion as what was unfolding in front of him took place.
Tommy Berry was just as impressed second-up when the colt just failed to catch Splintex over 1100m at Rosehill. “He’s one of the nicest young horses I’ve ever ridden,” Berry declared in defeat after he clocked an amazing 32.21s for the final 600m. “He kept quickening in the straight and could be anything!”
That blistering turn of foot was palpable when Exceedance returned the next season in devastating form against what has been described as the best crop of £Yo in generations. During the Spring he won the Gr.3 San Domenico Stakes over 1100m first-up leaving boom colt Bivouac and Anaheed behind him.
The stage was then set for the Gr.1 Coolmore Stud Stakes, which has launched the stud careers of Zoustar, Merchant Navy, Flying Artie, Brazen Beau, Star Witness and Northern Meteor in recent years.
Despite being checked at the start, Exceedance fulfilled his potential with a powerful finish to defeat Bivouac in the straight-six championship at Flemington. “We were banged up between two others out of the barriers,” winning jockey Dwayne Dunn explained. “But John Hawkes told me he would win it in the final 200m – not the first 400m. I decided to get on the back of Bivouac and it worked out perfectly.