Stallion wins race for date with Black Caviar Match made in heaven: Exceed and Excel will need to live up to his name when he becomes the first stallion to to mate with the great Black Caviar. Photo: Chris Lane The unbeaten darling of racing, Black Caviar, will visit sire Exceed And Excel this year in an effort to produce the ideal racehorse for Australian conditions. Black Caviar's connections on Wednesday confirmed the mating for the winner of all 25 of her starts. The Darley-based Exceed And Excel, which produced Golden Slipper winner Overreach in April, beat an elite field of suitors including Fastnet Rock, More Than Ready, Not A Single Doubt and Casino Prince. "There were a number of outstanding stallions that demanded our attention, and we are thrilled that Exceed And Excel will be Nelly's first mating," part-owner Gary Wilkie said. It has been a very thorough, painstaking but enjoyable process. Like all decisions with Black Caviar, we are very honoured and extremely privileged to be the ones in this predicament. Black Caviar's connections want an early runner and Exceed And Excel's record at producing juvenile winners is unparalleled in the past five years. He has sired 232 two-year-old winners around the world since 2008, including 40 juvenile stakes winners. His 68 Australian two-year-old winners in the past four seasons were capped by a remarkable crop this season that delivered the juvenile triple crown from Overreach and Guelph, which matched the effort of Helmet, a son of Exceed And Excel, by winning the group 1 Sires Produce-Champagne Stakes double. The bloodline is already proven with group 2 winner Wilander, a result of a mating between Exceed And Excel and Black Caviar's granddam Scandinavia. The mating will be questioned because it is a sprinter with a sprinter but Exceed And Excel's sons and daughter have shown the ability to stretch out to a strong mile with Helmet winning a Caulfield Guineas and Excelebration a multiple group 1 winner in Europe and runner-up to Frankel several times. Black Caviar holds a unique position in racing winning 15 group 1 races. She scored memorable wins in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide before going to Royal Ascot for her narrowest and most courageous win in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes last year. She went out in a blaze of glory in the TJ Smith on the opening day of the new grandstand at Randwick. "She was a strong, big sprinter and we had to think about that when we were choosing who we would send her to," part-owner Neil Werrett said. She has given us many great memories on the track and we are hoping she can continue that legacy as a broodmare. Black Caviar's connections have indicated they will race her sons and daughters, even though the estimates on the value for her first foal have topped $7 million.