The late Ashford Stud stallion Scat Daddy (by Johannesburg) is best known in Europe for his sprint stars Acapulco, Caravaggio, Lady Aurelia, No Nay Never, and Sioux Nation but his leading performers in North and South America include many milers and even middle-distance horses.
Daddy Nose Best, who won nine of his 25 starts from two to five years of age, was best from eight to nine furlongs and this six-time stakes winner won three times at Grade 3 level. The most valuable of the latter was the nine-furlong Sunland Derby in which he stayed on well to catch Isn't He Clever near the line. That was on dirt, each of his three listed race wins, plus the eight and a half-furlong Grade 3 contest he won as a five-year-old, were on turf, and it would be interesting to see how his progeny might fare in Europe, if any make the journey.
He is the best of several winners out of a placed mare called Follow Your Bliss (by Thunder Gulch), his grandam is the Grade 2 Dahlia Handicap and Grade 3 Violet Handicap scorer Follow The Money (by Pine Bluff) – both of those races were on turf – and that talented performer was one of three stakes winners out of a placed mare named Money Player (by Marshua's Dancer).
There are some minor blacktype horses in the fourth generation of the pedigree and a variety of stakes winners in the fifth, although those horses are, of course, remotely connected to this young Scat Daddy stallion. He was a Grade 3-placed dual winner at around a mile as a two-year-old, so does not look a likely source of precocious sprint juveniles, but despite the somewhat weak nature of the distaff side of his pedigree, it would be no surprise to see him get some stakes and graded winners. DADDY NOSE BEST (USA) - b.2009 - Scat Daddy - Follow Your Bliss, 9 wins inc Sunland Derby (Gr3), El Camino Real Derby (Gr3), Colonel E.R. Bradley Handicap (Gr3), Remington Green Stakes (L), Edward J. DeBartolo Memorial Handicap (L), Buddy Dilberto Memorial Handicap (L), 2nd Opening Verse Stakes (L), 3rd National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame Stakes (Gr2), Fair Grounds Handicap (Gr3). Sire in USA. First foals in 2016.
YEARLINGS CATALOGUED:
c - My Yammy Heat (by Unusual Heat) Barretts Aug not sold c - Rachel Jones (by Smarty Jones) Barretts Aug not sold
Scat Daddy (by Johannesburg) was a prolific Group/Grade 1 sire in both the northern and southern hemisphere and his premature death just before the start of the 2016 season was a huge loss.
His precocious son No Nay Never, a Group 1 star who was a half-length runner-up to Bobby's Kitten in the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint on his final start, was Timeform-rated 118+ at two and 117 at three. He was one of the most popular new recruits in 2015, he covered 146 mares in his first season for Coolmore Stud, and his first foals made up to 75,000gns. The speed and precocity of No Nay Never, Acapulco, Lady Aurelia and Caravaggio have led some to form a mistaken impression that is what one expects of a Scat Daddy. In fact, many of his best results come with his milers and middle-distance horses, in both North and South America. He is a stallion who was also capable of getting sprinters and juveniles, and not one who necessarily imposed any such limitations on his progeny's distance range. This will add a potentially interesting dimension to his stallion sons. No Nay Never's race record attracted plenty of speed-oriented mares to him and so we can expect that some of his offspring will be early types and sprinters of all ages. But he also looks likely to get milers, which could, if he becomes a success, open the possibility of him getting classic horses.
His dam, Cat's Eye Witness (by Elusive Quality), won once and has produced two other multiple winners in addition to her star son, and two of her siblings were blacktype scorers in the USA. Her dam, Comical Cat (by Exceller), won four times at three and was placed in the Grade 3 Las Flores Handicap, and that mare's siblings included the Group 2 St James's Palace Stakes winner Half A Year (by Riverman).
His half-brother Winning Pact (by Alydar) won the Grade 2 Del Mar Futurity, their half-brother Half Term (by Mr Prospector) was placed in the Group 3 Beeswing Stakes, and their half-sisters have produced some interesting descendants. One is the grandam of the Grade 1 scorer Tamarando (by Bertrando) and another is an ancestor of the Grade 1 Spinaway Stakes winner So Many Ways (by Sightseeing). The smart colts in the family who got chances at stud did not get anything like the sort of opportunities afforded to No Nay Never, and so they are not really any help in assessing his potential, but some of them, including his dam's Grade 3-winning half-brother Cat's Career (by Mr Prospector) and also the Grade 1-placed Grade 2 scorer Event Of The Year (by Seattle Slew), who is out of Comical Cat's half-sister Classic Event (by Mr Prospector), did get some stakes winners. NO NAY NEVER (USA) – b/br.2011 – Scat Daddy – Cat's Eye Witness, 4 wins inc Prix Morny (Gr1), Norfolk Stakes (Gr2), Keeneland Woodford Stakes (Gr3), 2nd Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (Gr1), Swale Stakes (Gr2). Sire in Ireland. First foals in 2016.
YEARLINGS CATALOGUED:
bf - Aine (by Danehill Dancer) Tattersalls IRE Sept €14,000 bf - Aitch (by Alhaarth) Goffs UK Aug £11,000 bc - Al Ihsas (by Danehill) Goffs Sept €240,000 chf - Alamouna (by Indian Ridge) Goffs Sept brf - Always A Way (by Danehill Dancer) Goffs Feb €24,000 brf - Always A Way (by Danehill Dancer) Goffs Sept €30,000 bc - Amethyst (by Sadler's Wells) Tattersalls IRE Sept €10,500 bf - Apache Dream (by Indian Ridge) Goffs Sept €72,000 chf - Apple Spirit (by Lemon Drop Kid) Goffs Sept €65,000 bc - Aquarelle Rare (by Rainbow Quest) Tattersalls Oct 120,000gns bc - Ardea Brave (by Chester House) Goffs Feb €30,000 bc - Ardea Brave (by Chester House) Tattersalls IRE Sept €34,000 bc - Barzah (by Darshaan) Tattersalls Oct 40,000gns chc - Brigids Cross (by Sadler's Wells) Goffs Sept €75,000 chf - Camdara (by Hawk Wing) Arqana Aug withdrawn bf - Catch The Eye (by Oratorio) Goffs Sept €50,000 bc - Chaibia (by Peintre Celebre) Arqana Aug €400,000 chc - Challow Hills (by Woodman) Goffs UK Aug £50,000 chc - Chiarezza (by Fantastic Light) Tattersalls Oct 50,000gns chc - Choose Me Please (by Choisir) Tattersalls Oct withdrawn chc - Choose Me Please (by Choisir) Tattersalls Nov 17,000gns (p/s) bc - Conniption (by Danehill Dancer) Tattersalls Oct 60,000gns bc - Corking (by Montjeu) Tattersalls Oct 130,000gns chc - Crosstalk (by Cape Cross) Goffs Sept €60,000 bf - Crystal Valkyrie (by Danehill) Goffs Sept not sold bf - Crystal Valkyrie (by Danehill) Tattersalls Nov 50,000gns bc - Dance Company (by Aussie Rules) Goffs Sept €35,000 bf - Dancing Shoes (by Danehill) Arqana Aug €75,000 bf - Danehill's Dream (by Danehill) Tattersalls Oct 155,000gns bf - Dansable (by Dansili) Goffs Oct withdrawn bc - Dhamma (by Broad Brush) Goffs UK Aug £90,000 bf - Dowager (by Groom Dancer) Goffs Sept €80,000 chc - Dynacam (by Dynaformer) Tattersalls Oct 80,000gns bc - Edallora (by Refuse To Bend) Goffs Sept €15,000 bc - Elaflaak (by Gulch) Goffs UK Aug £30,000 (p/s) bc - Eminence Gift (by Cadeaux Genereux) Goffs UK Aug £35,000 bc - Encore Merci (by Danehill Dancer) Arqana Aug €22,000 chc - Enharmonic (by E Dubai) Tattersalls Oct 110,000gns bf - Falling Rain (by Danehill Dancer) Goffs UK Aug £50,000 b/brc - Fancy (by Galileo) Goffs Sept €325,000 b/grf - Gleaming Silver (by Dalakhani) Tattersalls IRE Sept €11,000 bc - Gilded Vanity (by Indian Ridge) Tattersalls Oct 210,000gns chf - Hadarama (by Sinndar) Goffs Sept €30,000 brc - Hannahs Turn (by Dubai Destination) Goffs UK Aug £62,000 bf - Hureya (by Woodman) Tattersalls Oct 420,000gns bc - Jessica Rocks (by Fastnet Rock) Arqana Aug €480,000 bc - Keystone Gulch (by Gulch) Goffs Sept €52,000 bc - Laber Ildut (by Whipper) Arqana Aug €48,000 (p/s) bc - Lace (by Sadler's Wells) Tattersalls Oct 100,000gns bc - Lady Babooshka (by Cape Cross) Tattersalls Oct 120,000gns bf - Lady Ederle (by English Channel) Goffs Sept €50,000 chc - Law of The Jungle (by Catcher In The Rye) Goffs Sept €300,000 b/brf - Love Over Gold (by Peintre Celebre) Tattersalls Oct 52,000gns bc - Mironica (by Excellent Art) Tattersalls IRE Sept withdrawn bf - Miss Childrey (by Dr Fong) Arqana Aug €120,000 brc - Mixed Blessing (by Lujain) Goffs Sept €280,000 bc - Muravka (by High Chaparral) Tattersalls Oct 850,000gns chf - Noble Hero (by Daggers Drawn) SGA Sept not sold brc - Opera Fan (by Cape Cross) Goffs Sept €65,000 (p/s) bc - Pure Greed (by Galileo) Goffs Sept not sold chf - Qahatika (by Polish Precedent) Arqana Aug €57,000 bf - Readyandaway (by More Than Ready) Tattersalls Oct not sold bf - School Holidays (by Harlan's Holiday) Tattersalls Oct not sold bc - Seeking Solace (by Exceed And Excel) Tattersalls Oct 200,000gns bc - Sharaarah (by Oasis Dream) Goffs UK Aug not sold bf - Sheba's Humor (by Distorted Humor) Goffs UK Aug £50,000 bc - Shelley Beach (by Danehill Dancer) Tattersalls Oct 150,000gns bf - Sparkling Rock (by Rock of Gibraltar) Goffs Sept €42,000 bc - Special Assignment (by Lemon Drop Kid) Goffs Sept €60,000 bc - Special Assignment (by Lemon Drop Kid) Tattersalls Nov 100,000gns chc - Starlight Night (by Distant View) Goffs Sept €115,000 bf - Tamazug (by Machiavellian) Goffs UK Aug £38,000 bc - Theann (by Rock of Gibraltar) Goffs Sept €350,000 |
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