Nicks That Click – The Way Forward

Tara Madgwick - Tuesday September 11
If you read only one Nicks That Click story this year it should probably be this one.

No Nay NeverThe 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.

CarvaggioThe 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?



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