Alan Porter, October 18, 2006– WEEKEND PEDIGREE Undefeated in seven starts, he won six group/graded events from five to 8 1/2 furlongs, and his last four PERSPECTIVES outings saw him capture the G1 Phoenix S., G1 Prix by Alan Porter Morny, G1 Middle Park S. and GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile, making him the only horse to win Saturday, Group/Grade one races in four different countries in a CHAMPAGNE S.-GI, $400,000, BEL, 10-14, 2yo, 1m, single season. These efforts probably took their toll on 1:36 4/5, ft. Johannesburg, as he didn=t recapture his form the 1--sSCAT DADDY, 122, c, 2, by Johannesburg following season. He was beaten just a short-head by 1st Dam: Love Style, by Mr. Prospector the year older Rebelline in the seven-furlong G3 2nd Dam: Likeable Style, by Nijinsky II Gladness S. on his debut, but then finished off the 3rd Dam: Personable Lady, by No Robbery board in the GI , and when dropped ($250,000 yrl '05 KEESEP). O-James T Scatuorchio back to six furlongs in the G1 Golden Jubilee S. & Michael B Tabor; B-Axel Wend (KY); T-Todd A Still, Johannesburg=s stellar two-year-old record, Pletcher; J-J Velazquez; $240,000. Lifetime Record: combined with a first crop totaling 135 foals, made 4-3-1-0, $405,800. rapid results a virtual inevitability, and so it has proved. So far, he has 18 first-crop winners, including Scat Click for the brisnet.com chart or the free brisnet.com Daddy; the G2 Richmond S. winner, Hamoody; catalogue-style pedigree. Rabatash, who took the G3 Round Tower S. in Ireland; Continental Mile S. victor Marcavelly; and Fernando Po, Saturday=s GI Champagne S. offered a fascinating who took the With Anticipation S. at Saratoga. He=s mix. There was the proven, represented by Scat Daddy, twice had a stakes one-two, with Scat Daddy and winner of the GII Sanford S., and runner-up, after a Teuflesberg in the Sanford, and with Marcavelly and rough trip, in the GI Hopeful S. The undefeated stakes Daytona in the Continental Mile. winners Got The Last Laugh, successful in the GIII A $250,000 Keeneland September yearling, Scat Arlington-Washington Breeders= Futurity; Xchanger, Daddy is the second foal of the unraced Love Style. who had taken the GIII Sapling S., and New York-bred What she lacked in race-record, Love Style, more I=m a Numbers Guy, runaway victor in the restricted than made up in pedigree. A daughter of Mr. Bertram Bongard S. The unproven, but distinctly Prospector, she was out of Likeable Style, a Nijinsky II promising Nobiz Like Shobiz, devasting winner of a mare who established herself as one of the best Belmont maiden on his only previous start, and three-year-old fillies of her generation with wins in the Liquidity, who was also victorious in his only outing, Santa Ysabel S., GIII Senorita Breeders= Cup S., GIII winning a six furlong Oaklawn maiden in a fast time Honeymoon H. and GI Las Virgenes S. Likeable Style=s also added intrigue to the Champagne. Just for good dam, Personable Lady, was another good sophomore measure, the field also included Big Timer, an filly, taking the La Centinela S. and Pasadena S., and undefeated English group winner whose pedigree finishing second in the GI Santa Susana S. and GIII encouraged his connections to believe that he would Santa Ynez S., and third in the GI Fantasy S. handle dirt. Personable Lady=s third dam is the imported Turning for home, the race came down to a battle English-bred mare, Nato II. A listed winning between horses from the two extremes, Nobiz Like two-year-old in her own county, Nato II became a Shobiz--who had made a big move on the turn--and successful and influential broodmare. Her only Scat Daddy--beginning to role on the outside--along black-type winner was the Bewitch S. winner Royal with the GI Hopeful S. fourth Pegasus Wind, who had Bund, but she also appears in the female line of turf made a bold bid to steal the race. star Quack; G1 Prix Lupin victor Flemensfirth; GI All three colts emerged with great credit, but at the Metropolitan H. hero Wild Rush; G1 Middle Park S. end of the day, Scat Daddy prevailed by 3/4 of a length winner Hayil; Sweet Talker, who took the GI Queen over Nobiz Like Shobiz with Pegasus Wind just a half- Elizabeth II Challenge Cup, and who is bred on length back. The trio pulled nearly nine lengths clear of somewhat similar lines to Scat Daddy; she is by the fourth horse. Stormin Fever, a son of , while her granddam Both first and second are further credits for Storm is a half-sister to Scat Daddy=s fourth dam. Cat. Scat Daddy is from the first crop of Johannesburg, As far as the structure of his pedigree is concerned, a grandson of Storm Cat, while Nobiz Like Showbiz, a Scat Daddy is the product of a pattern we are son of , is out of a mare by Storm Cat. beginning to see quite frequently these days--a Storm The victory of Scat Daddy opened up Johannesburg=s Cat line stallion over a Mr. Prospector line mare, with lead in the freshman sire race (also propelling him into Nijinsky II also in the dam. Other examples include first in the two-year-old sire table), and there can have Group/Grade I winners Good Reward, High Yield and been few more likely candidates for early stud success. Nebraska Tornado, and Tale of the Cat, a A look a Johannesburg=s juvenile career shows it to be half-brother to Johannesburg=s dam. quite simply unique. Porter cont. It=s no surprise that this pattern works well, as Storm Cat and his sons cross extremely well over Mr. Prospector line mares, while Storm Cat=s sire, Storm Bird, is bred on very similar lines to Nijinsky II. Scat Daddy=s pedigree takes things a stage further. Johannesburg=s second dam, Yarn, is by Mr. Prospector, out of a daughter of a Nijinsky II mare, which makes him 4x2 to Mr. Prospector and 4x6x3 to Storm Bird/Nijinsky II. It might be the latter combination that is responsible for the fact that Scat Daddy appears to be improving as the distances stretch out, something which one might not necessarily have expected from a son of Johannesburg out of a Mr. Prospector mare. Incidentally, we can also note that Teuflesberg, the Johannesburg colt who was a very close second to Scat Daddy in the Sanford, has Mr. Prospector and Nijinsky II through the three-parts-sisters Yarn and Line, who appear 3x2. Hamoody is out of a mare by Gulch, and has Mr. Prospector 4x3, and Rabatash has a second dam by Mr. Prospector, so also has that horse 4x3. Thus, the pattern of inbreeding to Mr. Prospector which seems to have been a matter of concern for some pundits certainly doesn=t seem to be doing any harm for Johannesburg. Alan Porter may be contacted at [email protected]. Please cc TDN management at [email protected].

SCAT DADDY, c, 2004 Storm Bird Storm Cat Terlingua Hennessy *Hawaii II Island Kitty T.C. Kitten Johannesburg Damascus Ogygian Gonfalon Myth Mr. Prospector Yarn Narrate Native Dancer Raise a Native Raise You Mr. Prospector Nashua Gold Digger Love Style Sequence Unraced Northern Dancer 3Fls, 1G1SW Likeable Style Nijinsky II GISW, 11-5-1-1, Flaming Page $322,326 Personable Lady No Robbery 6Fls, 2SP 7Fls, 1GSW, 1SW Porthole