No Nay Never a Group 1 star by Scat Daddy

NO NAY NEVER (USA) - 2011 bay/brown horse

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