If
you read only one Nicks That Click story this year it should probably be this
one.
The winners keep coming for Coolmore shuttler No Nay Never (USA), the son of
Scat Daddy posting his 21st winner overnight with a debut victory
for Lady Madison, who highlights a growing nick for this exciting young sire
with mares carrying Danehill blood.
Trained by Richard Hughes, Lady Madison scored a half length win over six
furlongs at Chelmsford.
She is the third winner from Sparkling Rock, a half-sister by Rock of Gibraltar
to stakes-winner Al Aasifh.
No Nay Never is the leading European First Crop Sire, his 21 winners to date
including four stakes-winners – Land Force, Ten Sovereigns, Servalan and Mae Never
No.
Of those 21 winners, 11 are from mares carrying Danehill blood including three
of his stakes-winners – Land Force is from a Rock of Gibraltar mare, Ten Sovereigns
from an Exceed and Excel mare and Servalan from an Oratorio mare; and three
stakes-placed horses from daughters of Danehill Dancer (2) and Fastnet Rock.
The nick has produced 11 winners from 15 runners or 73.33% winners to runners
and the six stakes-horses from 15 runners equates to 40% stakes horses to
runners.
That's going to give food for thought to Australian breeders considering No Nay
Never and his Coolmore running mate Caravaggio (USA) this spring and also to
yearling buyers presented with the first Australian No Nay Never yearlings at
sales in 2019.
Can Scat Daddy be the outcross sire to take advantage of our overload of
Danehill line mares?