Exceed And Excel’s three-year-old son Excelebration continued his superb season with his first win at the highest level, taking the Prix du Moulin de Longchamp by a length and a half from Godolphin’s Rio de la Plata. Dubawi Gold (Dubawi) was fourth.
The Marco Botti-trained colt started his season by running second to the mighty Frankel in the G3 Greenham Stakes before winning the G2 Mehl-Mulhens Rennem (German 2,000 Guineas) by seven lengths. He then finished third in the G1 St. James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot before another wide-margin victory in the G2 Hungerford Stakes on his most recent previous outing. In eight lifetime starts Excelebration has won five races and finished placed on the other three occasions.
Bred in Ireland by Owenstown Stud, he is out of the Indian Ridge mare Sun Shower.
Exceed And Excel has enjoyed a tremendous 2011 with three individual Group One winners, the other two being Helmet, winner of the Champagne Stakes and Sires’ Produce Stakes in Australia, and the flying filly Margot Did, who won the Nunthorpe Stakes last month at York. In total he has sired 16 Group winners.
