EXCELEBRATION won the Group 1 Prix du Moulin de Longchamp as a three-year-old, added both the Group 1 Prix Jacques Le Marois and Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at four, and he retired to stud known as an outstanding miler. In any normal time, he would have been crowned champion of his division, even hailed as a shining star among the best milers of recent decades – Timeform rated him 133 – but he spent his racing career in the shadow of the greatest of them all, Frankel.