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He was a nonstarter at two, undefeated in six starts, a 4-time Grade 1 winner with earnings of $3,798,000, a Triple Crown Champion, and he did it all in 112 days.
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Scat Daddy was on the road to the
Triple Crown in 2006 as a 2 year old, with wins in Champagne Stakes-G1 and Sanford Stakes-G2. He was second in the Hopeful Stakes-G2, ending the year with three wins in five starts. Scat Daddy made his 3-year- old debut with a third in the Holy Bull Stakes-G3; then a first in the Fountain of Youth Stakes-G2 and a first in the prestigious Florida Derby-G1, setting him up for the Kentucky Derby.
But Scat Daddy came in unplaced in the Kentucky Derby. His unplaced finish in this race marked the end of his race career as he was retired due to a slight tendon injury that occurred during the Kentucky Derby. He retired with five wins in nine races, with one second and one third. He earned $1,334,300.
Johannesburg is the sire of Scat Daddy. Johannesburg was the 2001 Champion 2 Year Old in North America, England, Europe and France. He won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile-G1 in the USA; Norfolk Stakes-G3 and the Middle Park Stakes-G1 in England; the Anglesley Stakes-G3 and the Phoenix Stakes-G1 in Ireland; and the Prix Morny Stakes-G1 in France. He finished eighth in the Kentucky Derby at three and, after a lackluster year as a non-winner of three starts, was retired with seven wins in 10 starts with earnings of $1,014,585.
Johannesburg is the sire of horses that have won over $90 million worldwide with 66 stakes winners. His stakes winners include the sprinter Eaton’s Gift, winner of the Swale Stakes-G2 at 6 1/2-furlongs and the Smile Sprint Handicap-G2 at 6 furlongs. Teuflesberg, by Johannesburg,
won the Sugar Bowl Stakes at 6 furlongs, the Woody Stephens Stakes-G2 at 7 furlongs and the Southwest Stakes at 8 furlongs. Teuflesberg is the sire of Trinniberg, the 2011 Sprint Champion and winner of the Breeders’ Cup Sprint.
The sire of Johannesburg is Hennessy, winner of the 1995 Hopeful Stakes-G1, Hollywood Juvenile Championship-G2 and Sapling Stakes-G2. He was second in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile-G1 and only ran
at two, with four wins in nine starts and earnings of $580,400.
Hennessy sired the winners of over $77 million worldwide with 77 stakes horses, including Henny Hughes, the winner of Saratoga Special-G2 at 6.6 furlongs, the Tremont Stakes at 5 1/2 furlongs, the King’s Bishop-G1 at 7 furlongs, the Vosburgh Stakes at 6 furlongs, and the Jersey Shore Breeders’ Cup-G3 at 6 furlongs.
Hennessy is by Young America Stakes-G1 winner Storm Cat, who has earnings of $570,610. Storm Cat sired the winners of
over $129 million with 178 stakes winners. Storm Cat is a 2-time leading sire in 2000 and 2001 with 8 Champions, including European Horse of the Year Giant›s Causeway, Irish Champion 3-Year-Old
Colt Black Minnaloushe, US Champion 2-Year-Old Filly Storm Flag Flying, and US Champion 2-Year-Old Filly Sweet Catomine.
Storm Cat is by Storm Bird by Northern Dancer. His dam is Terlinqua by Secretariat. This great mare was a stakes winner of $423,896 with wins in the Hollywood Juvenile Championship Stakes-G2 and the Hollywood Lassie Stakes-G2. She is the dam of runners such as Chapel Of Dreams, with earnings of $643,912 in races like the Palomar Handicap-G2. It is through mares like Terlinqua that we see the contribution that Secretariat has made to Thoroughbreds today.
Myth, the dam of Johannesburg, is the winner of one race in 16 starts. She earned $25,110 and is the dam of 10 foals with one stakes winner in Johannesburg and one stakes placed in a colt named Grand Admiral, a stakes-placed finisher in Ireland with a third in the Keeneland Royal Whip Stakes-G2 and the Ballymacoll Stud Celebrating 50 Years International Stakes-G3.
The sire of Myth is Ogygian, a son of Damascus out of Gonfalon by Francis S. The dam of Myth is Yarn by Mr. Prospector by Raise A Native. The dam of Yarn is Narrate by Honest Pleasure by What A Pleasure.
The dam of Narrate is State by Nijinsky II
by Northern Dancer. The dam of State is Monarchy by Princequillo and Monarchy is out of Knight’s Daughter by Sir Cosmo. Monarchy is a full sister to 1958 American Horse of the Year Round Table.
The race record for Yarn shows that she had one win, a second and a third in her six starts, earning $19,110. Yarn is the dam of six foals, including Tale Of The Cat, winner of the 1997 King’s Bishop Stakes-G2 and the sire of horses that have won over $22.9 million including Gio Ponti, a multiple Champion with earnings of over $6.1 million.
Scat Daddy is out of unraced Love
Style, the dam of 10 foals with six starters, including three stakes winners that have amassed earnings of $1,843,305. Her other stakes winners are Grand Daddy, a full brother to Scat Daddy who won the 2012 Forego Stakes, and Antipathy, winner of the 2014 Shuvee Handicap-G3. Love Style has a 2018 foal by Tapit by Pulpit.
Mr. Prospector is the sire of Love Style. He is the winner of $112,171, winning seven of his 14 starts including the Gravesend Stakes, a 6-furlong race, and the Whirlaway Handicap, another 6-furlong race. Mr. Prospector was known as a speedster and
set two New Track Records for 6 furlongs, one at Gulfstream Park going 6 furlongs in
a time of 1:07 4/5 in an allowance race. He then set a New Track Record at Garden State in his Whirlaway Handicap win going the 6 furlongs in 1:08 3/5.
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