Editing Exceller (section)

==Legacy==
Exceller left behind 16 crops of foals in the United States, including 19 [[graded stakes race|stakes]] winners and 40 stakes horses, none of them of his quality. His runners were headed by the fillies Slew's Exceller and Squan Song.

Exceller was elected to the [[National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame]] in 1999. Although the museum's website mentions the manner of his death, his plaque in the museum does not, stating  only that he died in 1997. His fate, essentially unheard of for an American stallion of his racing class, generated debate over the proper treatment of race horses after their careers on the track were over.

Today, a number of [[grassroots organizing|grassroots organizations]], such as [[The Exceller Fund]], [[ReRun]], [[The Communication Alliance to Network Thoroughbred Ex-Racehorses]] (CANTER), and [[Old Friends Equine|Old Friends]], among others, take inspiration from Exceller's story as they work to purchase and retrain former racehorses for new careers. In addition, had the horse been in the United States, he may well have been given a proper home at the [[Kentucky Horse Park]]'s Hall of Champions in [[Lexington, Kentucky|Lexington]] as was done after the retired champion thoroughbred [[Cigar (horse)|Cigar]] was found to be infertile at stud. Or, the owner might have been able to have handed him over to the [[Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation]] in [[Shrewsbury, New Jersey]], the world's largest and most respected organization devoted to equine rescue.

Like Exceller, [[Kentucky Derby]] winner [[Ferdinand (horse)|Ferdinand]] ended up in a  slaughterhouse in Japan in 2002.

In the [[Blood-Horse magazine]] ranking of the [[Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 Racehorses of the 20th Century|top 100 U.S. thoroughbred champions of the 20th century]], Exceller was ranked #96.