Scat Daddy son Daddy Long Legs snapped up to stand at Taylor Made

Multiple Graded stakes-winning millionaire Daddy Long Legs, a son of Scat Daddy, has been purchased by Taylor Made Stallions, Phoenix Thoroughbreds and KatieRich Farms and will stand the upcoming breeding season at Taylor Made in Kentucky for $10,000 after relocating from Haras Cordillera in Chile.

Daddy Long Legs is following in his influential sire’s footsteps. Scat Daddy was leading sire in Chile from 2013 to 2016, siring ten Chilean champions and two Chilean Horses of the Year.

Daddy Long Legs topped all first-crop sires in Chile with five stakes winners and is represented by ten stakes horses from his first crop of Chilean runners, including Grade 1-winning two-year-old champion colt Fallen From Heaven, a Grade 1 winner on dirt and a Grade 2 winner on turf, and Grade 3-winning two-year-old filly Atomicka.

“We are very excited to have a Grade 1-producing son of Scat Daddy who himself won a Group 2 as a two-year-old at Newmarket for Coolmore,” said Duncan Taylor. “To have a son of Scat Daddy, one who was recently crowned champion first-crop sire in Chile, just like his father, makes it that much more special.

“Daddy Long Legs sired a Grade 1 stakes winner on the dirt and champion two-year-old colt Fallen From Heaven in his first crop and has also produced Graded stakes winners on the turf as well.

"He’s a big, good-looking horse, and along with his ability to sire both top-level dirt and turf horses should be a great fit for the worldwide marketplace.

"Both Daddy Long Legs and No Nay Never [also by Scat Daddy] are off to great starts at stud, as both have sired Grade 1 winners in their first crop, and we look forward to providing breeders here a direct source to one of the most influential stallions we have seen in some time.”

Scat Daddy, a multiple Grade 1 winner who died in 2015, continues to make his mark around the world.

He is the sire of 107 stakes winners in both the northern and southern hemispheres and 68 Graded stakes winners worldwide, including undefeated Triple Crown winner Justify and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf and UAE Derby winner Mendelssohn.

Recent top runners also include the globetrotting Grade 1 winner Lady Aurelia, winner of the King’s Stand Stakes at Ascot; Dacita, multiple Grade 1 winner in her native Chile and in North America; and multiple Group 1 winner Caravaggio.

North America’s leading freshman sire in 2011, Scat Daddy became the first sire in 95 years to have four starters in one Kentucky Derby when Justify, Mendelssohn, Flameaway and Combatant started in this year’s run for the roses.

In 2015, Scat Daddy broke the North American record for the number of juvenile stakes winners in a season with nine, eclipsing the previous record of eight that had been set by his great-grandsire Storm Cat in 2002.

Campaigned by the Coolmore partners and originally trained by Aiden O’Brien, Daddy Long Legs won his debut at two before capturing the Royal Lodge Stakes by three and a quarter lengths at Newmarket.

As a three-year-old he scored his biggest victory in the UAE Derby over the main track at Meydan, earning a berth in the Kentucky Derby where his chances were compromised by drawing the rail.

Produced from the multiple stakes-winning Meadowlake mare Dreamy Maiden, Daddy Long Legs was bred in Kentucky by Woodford Thoroughbreds and he retired with career earnings of $1,348,231.

Daddy Long Legs has stood in the US before, covering a small number of mares at Strouds Lane Farm in Florida in 2016.

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