Success lives here

Multiple G2-winning juvenile who ran second in the G1 Golden Slipper. Trained on to land the G1 Newmarket Handicap as a three-year-old, just like his sire Exceed And Excel. Out of a G3-winning Street Cry mare and from the family of the great Lonhro. 

Pedigree notes

Cylinder was born with a stallion’s pedigree and he has fulfilled his genetic heritage on the racetrack as a G1 winner of over $3.69 million. Cylinder has an unmatched list of credentials to succeed at stud.

• By a Champion sire and Australia’s greatest two-year-old speed influence Exceed And Excel.
• Won the G1 Newmarket as a three-year-old just like his sire.
• Dam is by another Champion sire Street Cry who is emerging as a leading broodmare sire.
• From the renowned stallion-making family of Lonhro and Grosvenor (Cylinder’s dam is out of a half-sister to Champion sire Lonhro).
• Won two notable “stallion-making” races, the G2 Silver Slipper and G1 Newmarket.

Silver Slipper winners include Pierro, Iglesia, Strategic, Luskin Star and Baguette.

Newmarket winners include Exceed And Excel, Century, General Nediym, Baguette, Brazen Beau and seven-time Champion sire Heroic.

Cylinder’s on-pace racing style is a key ingredient for sire success in Australia, exemplified in his own sire and broodmare sire.

G1 Statistics

In the case of a first-season stallion. The best clues to potential successful nicks are provided by his sire. Cylinder’s sire Exceed And Excel has left 19 individual G1 winners by 17 different sires showing his versatility which we can also expect from Cylinder. Exceed And Excel has two G1 winners out of Street Cry mares (including Cylinder himself) and two out of Elusive Quality mares, demonstrating a nick with the Mr Prospector line.

Best Nicks

Cylinder’s sire Exceed And Excel has left Stakes winners out of daughters of over 30 different broodmare sires, once again indicating versatility.

Exceed And Excel has the most individual Stakes winners out of mares by Elusive Quality, Encosta De Lago, Lonhro, Snippets and Singspiel. His best percentages are with mares by Gone West, Snippets, Elusive Quality, Dehere, Singspiel and Encosta De Lago.

Cylinder’s pedigree is free of Sadler’s Wells and his brother Fairy King. Their descendants feature in the dams of mares who nick well with Exceed And Excel. This provides opportunities as outlined in the breeding strategies below.

Inbreeding / Linebreeding options

Cylinder’s pedigree features several very influential mares close up offering a range of ways to create inbreeding and linebreeding patterns.

His dam Circular features the Blue Hen mares Helen Street, Coup De Folie, Shadea and Gay Poss. Overall he has multiple lines of Natalma and Almahmoud, two of the key females in modern pedigrees. To complete the picture Exceed And Excel’s dam is by Lomond who is inbred to La Troienne.