Sitting far back, Willie Shoemaker ( on Exceller ) took advantage of the fast pace.

Exceller was foaled on May 12, 1973 in Kentucky.

As a five-year-old in 1978, Exceller had his best season on the racecourse, winning 7 of 10 starts, all in top company, on both dirt and turf racetracks.

Affirmed's saddle had slipped, effectively taking him out of the race, and Seattle Slew had hung up almost suicidal fractions on the lead, but Exceller still powered through the Belmont Park mud to win by a nose.

As time went on, however, it became obvious that Exceller was never going to be a leading sire.

He tried to finished unplaced as Exceller and jockey Willie Shoemaker defeated Seattle Slew by a nose.

Two weeks later, he won the 1¼-mile Woodward Stakes over Exceller by four lengths.

Exceller took the lead at the top of the stretch, but Seattle Slew fought back and lost by a nose in a photo finish.

Trained at first by Francois Mathet, who had been the trainer for François Dupré, and later by Maurice Zilber, Exceller didn't accomplish much racing as a two-year-old but blossomed as the distances got longer during his three-year-old season.

In 1991, the syndicate was bought out by a breeder from Sweden and Exceller was shipped back across the Atlantic Ocean.

His runners were headed by the fillies Slew's Exceller and Squan Song.

Perhaps the most memorable renewal was that of 1978, when Exceller defeated the previous year's Triple Crown winner, Seattle Slew, by a nose, with the 1978 Triple Crown winner, Affirmed, finishing fifth.

He was named Horse of the Year despite the losses to Alydar, Seattle Slew, and Exceller, and was also named the American Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse.

Affirmed won the Strub Stakes, and then ran in the Santa Anita Handicap against Exceller, who had defeated Seattle Slew in 1978.

Andrew Beyer ( a Seattle Slew skeptic when the horse was a three-year-old ) wrote for his lead, " Exceller won Saturday's Jockey Club Gold Cup.

Despite his exemplary achievements as a racehorse, and his unique accomplishment in being the only horse to ever defeat two U. S. Triple Crown winners in the same race ( and only the second ever to do so in his career ), Exceller is now remembered more for the tragic manner of his death and the horse rescue movement it helped inspire.

Exceller came back again at age six and managed some placings, but was not quite the same horse.

Exceller was syndicated and retired to stud at Gainesway Farm in Lexington, Kentucky for the 1980 breeding season.

Today, a number of grassroots organizations, such as The Exceller Fund, ReRun, The Communication Alliance to Network Thoroughbred Ex-Racehorses ( CANTER ), and Old Friends, among others, take inspiration from Exceller's story as they work to purchase and retrain former racehorses for new careers.

Northstar ( NS ) was an exclusively Swedish demoscene group, perhaps best known for their early diskmag " Exceller 8 " and their two members Kaktus and Mahoney — authors of the original NoiseTracker and several musicdisks.

Amongst others, he trained Cougar II, the 1972 U. S. Champion Turf Horse, Kennedy Road, the 1983 Canadian Horse of the Year and for a time, Exceller.

Exceller ( 1973 – 1997 ) is widely considered one of the best horses to race in the United States not to win a year-end championship.

While stablemates Empery and Youth were taking down the French and English Derbys, Exceller won in the grueling Prix Royal-Oak ( run at 1 7 / 8 mile ) and the Group 1 Grand Prix de Paris.

Sent to Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Canada, Exceller won the Canadian International.

In the middle of 1977, Exceller was shipped to California and placed in the care of Charlie Whittingham.

However, a little time off and some of Whittingham's expertise soon had Exceller competing and winning against some of the best horses in America.

After claiming the Hollywood Gold Cup, Hollywood Invitational Turf Handicap, San Juan Capistrano Handicap, Sunset Handicap, and Oak Tree Invitational Stakes, Exceller had his crowning moment.

He and Noor were the only horses in history to defeat two U. S. Triple Crown winners, and Exceller was the only one to pull off this feat in a single race.

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