TUESDAY, JULY 3, 2018 ELITE READY FOR SECOND JULY ASSAULT SCAT DADDY STILL BUILDING by Jessica Martini ON EXPANSIVE LEGACY When Elite presented its initial consignment at last year=s Fasig-Tipton July Horses of Racing Age Sale, the results were a resounding success for the boutique operation spearheaded by Brad Weisbord and Liz Crow. The consignment was responsible for seven of the 11 top-priced offerings, including Adorable Miss (Kitten=s Joy), whose $585,000 price tag was second-highest of the auction. The results in the sales ring last summer have been bolstered by success on the racetrack this year. AThe best thing for Year One was that our draft came out running,@ Weisbord said as Elite prepares to offer its second July consignment next Monday in Lexington. AAll 11 that we sold in July have raced and seven of the 11 have been stakes horses. Four have been graded stakes horses, three have been Grade I horses and we=ve had three stakes wins.@ (Click to continue to p5) IN TDN EUROPE TODAY The late Scat Daddy | Coolmore photo THE WEEKLY WRAP: CAMELOT TO THE FORE Tom Peacock has the latest The Weekly Wrap, with Coolmore’s by Andrew Caulfield Camelot (GB) in the headlines due to his G1 Irish Derby-winning Having jumped the gun by discussing Camelot's promise in son Latrobe (Ire). Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. these pages back on May 1, I can hardly write about him again now that his son Latrobe has emulated Camelot's victory in the G1 Irish Derby. I will add, though, that Camelot followed Hurricane Run, Frozen Fire and Fame And Glory as the fourth winner of the Irish Derby by Montjeu, who was himself a five-length winner of this Classic in 1999. The Montjeu clan is therefore vying for supremacy in the Irish Derby with Galileo, the 2001 winner who has been responsible for five winners, thanks to Soldier of Fortune, Cape Blanco, Treausre Beach, Australia and Capri. Another of Galileo's sons, Teofilo, sired the 2013 winner Trading Leather. In other words, these two sons of Sadler's Wells have accounted for 13 of the last 20 runnings, and that becomes 14 for the Sadler's Wells male line when his 2002 winner High Chaparral is added in. So what to write about? The much-missed Scat Daddy gets the nod, thanks not just to his Group-race double at the Curragh from the 2-year-olds Van Beethoven and So Perfect, but also to the Group 1 victory in Chile by Fallen From Heaven, who I believe is the first Group/Graded winner by a son of Scat Daddy. 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[email protected] European Editor Emma Berry TODAY’S GRADED STAKES [email protected] EST Race Associate International Editor Heather Anderson @HLAndersonTDN 8:20a Prix du Bois-G3, DEA Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing Sean Cronin & Tom Frary [email protected] 60 Broad Street, Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 732-747-8060 | 732-747-8955 (fax) www.TheTDN.com TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 3 OF 8 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • JULY 3, 2018 and the >TDN Rising Star= Legends of War. These six winners add up to an impressive collection, I'm sure you'll agree, especially when they were sired at a fee no higher than $35,000. Scat Daddy Still Building on Success on this scale wasn't unexpected, though, as the Craven Breeze-Up Sale demonstrated so vividly. Legends of War cost no Expansive Legacy (cont. from p1) less than 900,000gns, while an as-yet-unnamed colt out of This son is Daddy Long Legs, who became the Alegendinmyownmind made 800,000gns and a colt now named first to alert the Anglo-Irish community to Scat Giottino made 775,000gns. Daddy's potential when he won the 2011 edition of the G2 Royal Lodge S. for Aidan O'Brien. O'Brien, of course, is also the trainer of Van Beethoven and So Perfect, as well as such talented Scat Daddys as Caravaggio, Mendelssohn, Sioux Nation, Seahenge, Sergei Prokofiev and (briefly) Acapulco. I suspect that No Nay Never won't be long in following Daddy Long Legs's example, as he has already been represented by the Listed winner Servalan, the Group 2-placed Land Force and the useful Cosmic Law. No Nay Never currently ranks third among the sires of 2-year-olds, with the table being dominated by Scat Daddy. The son of Johannesburg owes his lead over Kodiac to So Perfect (G3 Grangecon Stud S.), Van Beethoven (G2 Railway S.), Sergei Prokofiev (third in the G2 Coventry S.), Gossamer Wings (a narrowly-beaten second in the G2 Queen Mary S.), Skitter Scatter (who chased home So Perfect in the Grangecon Stud S.) El Kabeir | Sarah K. Andrew TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 8 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • JULY 3, 2018 It was a similar story at the American 2-year-old sales, where Next in line are Caravaggio, who was very popular at a fee of Scat Daddy youngsters sold for $1,000,000, $875,000 (a filly i35,000 when he made his debut at Coolmore this year, and El called Confessing) and $825,000. These followed some Kabeir, a Grade II winner who embarked on his career at impressive prices at last year's yearling sales, such as the Yeomanstown Stud at a fee of i8,000. $1,100,000 paid for Sergei Prokofiev and, to a lesser degree, the There must be every chance that Caravaggio will eventually be $400,000 required to buy So joined under the Perfect. The heart-breaking Coolmore/Ashford banner by aspect of all this is that Scat Mendelssohn, winner of the G1 Daddy's death in December Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf and 2015 means that he was denied the G2 UAE Derby, and Sioux his chance of covering elite Nation, who triumphed last year in the G2 Norfolk S. and G1 Phoenix mares in 2016, when his fee had Stakes as well as in this year's G3 been set at $100,000. His fee Lacken S.. All eyes, though, will be had never been higher than on Scat Daddy's spectacular son $35,000 in eight previous Justify. Speculative reports have seasons, yet these eight crops placed a $75 million estimate on have so far produced 11 Grade I this unbeaten Triple Crown winners, a dozen Grade II scorers winner's breeding rights. and 14 Grade III winners, with An interesting aspect of Scat more, surely, still to come. Daddy's stallion career is that the It is well worth reminding Harmonize | Sarah K. Andrew 37 Graded/Group winners from everyone that only one of the his northern hemisphere crops have as many as 36 different five colts among Scat Daddy's 11 Grade I winners is old enough broodmare sires, the only one to crop up twice being the to have had runners, this being No Nay Never. Kentucky Derby winner Thunder Gulch. TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 5 OF 8 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • JULY 3, 2018 This underlines Scat Daddy's versatility, which also extends to Elite Ready for Second July Assault his progeny's distance requirements and to the surfaces on (cont. from p1) which they race. The results only got rosier for Elite over the weekend when Although Scat Daddy was inbred 4 x 2 to Mr Prospector, a Lady Alexandra (More Than Ready) came up a narrowly beaten sizeable amount of his success has come from Mr Prospector runner-up versus the boys in the GI Highlander S. Purchased by line mares. Two of his best daughters--the Grade I winners Lady the Heider Family for $375,000 last July, the 4-year-old filly was Aurelia and Hamonize--are respectively inbred 4 x 3 and 4 x 4 to beaten just a neck on the line by Madaket Stables, Ten Strike Storm Cat, the great-grandsire of Scat Daddy. So Perfect has Racing and Steve Laymon=s Long On Value (Value Plus), who three distant lines to Mr. Prospector, in addition to 4 x 3 Elite sold for $100,000 at last year=s Keeneland November sale. inbreeding to Storm Cat. The filly, who was beaten less than a length when fourth in the G2 Queen Mary S., was well suited by the extra furlong at the Curragh and it will be interesting to see how much further she will stay.