Daddy Nose Best a prolific son of Scat Daddy

DADDY NOSE BEST (USA) - 2009 bay horse

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.

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