In a relatively short stud career, the late Scat Daddy more than made his mark.
A multiple champion sire in Chile, whose progeny were named Horse Of The Year in both Chile and the USA, Scat Daddy left behind 136 stakes winners, including more than 30 Gr1 winners.
His progeny have earned in excess of $260 million and include US Triple Crown winner Justify.
The sire of Gr1 winners on both dirt and turf, Scat Daddy is showing signs of becoming a major sire of sires, making his premature death all the more regrettable.
Scat Daddy
An example of this can be seen by the fact that the last two Gr1 Juddmonte Cheveley Park Stakes have both been won by daughters of a Scat Daddy stallion.
Scat Daddy’s Gr1 Prix Morny winning son No Nay Never is the sire of 2020 Cheveley Park heroine Alcohol Free, while Scat Daddy’s dual Gr1 winning son Caravaggio is responsible for this year’s impressive Cheveley Park queen Tenebrism.
Alcohol Free has gone on to capture both the Gr1 Coronation Stakes and Gr1 Qatar Sussex Stakes this year, with her sire No Nay Never also sire of this year Gr2 Sky Bet Lowther Stakes/Gr3 Princess Margaret Keeneland Stakes winner Zain Claudette and Gr3 Markel Molecomb Stakes winner Armor.
Alcohol Free in action
In total, No Nay Never (Leading First Season Sire in GB/Ireland in 2018) has been responsible for more than 30 black type winners, including the Coolmore based dual Gr1 winner Ten Sovereigns.
His paternal half-brother Caravaggio has made a fine start with his first two-year-olds this year.
At the time of writing, the son of Scat Daddy’s first crop is headed by the aforementioned Tenebrism and dual group winner Agartha, as well as the stakes winners Dizzy Bizu and Her World. Caravaggio went close to having a Gr1 first crop double, with his daughter Agartha beaten just three-parts of a length when second in the recent Gr1 Moyglare Stud Stakes.
Another Scat Daddy son El Kabeir (winner of the Gr2 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes, Gr3 Gotham Stakes, and Gr3 Jerome Stakes) has also made a pleasing start with his first crop this year. El Kabeir’s early winners are headed by Listed winners Don Chicco and Masekela – with the latter also second in the G2 Superlative Stakes.
At the time of writing Caravaggio heads the Leading First Season Sires List in Ireland where El Kabeir is eighth.
With the likes of Justify (whose yearlings made up to $1.55 million at the recent Keeneland September Yearling Sale), brilliant UAE Derby winner Mendelssohn, and Gr1 Phoenix Stakes hero Sioux Nation yet to have runners, it is hard not to believe that Scat Daddy’s already impressive record as a sire of sires will further be handsomely enhanced over the coming years.
His ongoing success also continues to bolster the strength of the potent Storm Cat male line, whose other star current representatives include multiple US champion sire Into Mischief (already sire of promising and successful sires Goldencents and Practical Joke) and top Irish sire Lope De Vega.
Also broodmare sire of the Breeders’ Cup Sprint winning champion Whitmore, Scat Daddy had a South African connection -his Gr1 Hopeful Stakes winning grandsire Hennessy is out of Gr3 Adirondack Stakes runner up Island Kitty, the latter a daughter of the South African champion Hawaii.
