€2.6 million Sister To Gr1 Winner BLACKBEARD is Highest Priced Yearling Of The Year

30 Sep 22

A full-sister to top-class two-year-old BLACKBEARD (No Nay Never (Scat Daddy) ex Muirin) became the highest-priced yearling sold anywhere in the world this year when bringing €2.6million (Euro = $3.88m AUD) at the Goffs Orby Sale.

2.6m Euro for Blackbeard's Sister

Aidan O’Brien’s Prix Morny victor BLACKBEARD doubled his Group 1 tally in the Middle Park Stakes just three days before the sale.

BLACKBEARD winning his 2nd Gr1 race - Middle Park Stakes

Buyer Richard Knight declared the daughter of No Nay Never was exceptional in her own right.

“I thought she was the absolute standout of the sale even without her brother on the page,” the agent said

“Just as an individual she had everything; she’s a lovely size, a lovely shape and a very athletic filly. Then you can add the brother and the sire into the mix too. I’m just delighted to get her.”

Knight did not reveal his client, but added, “It was at the top of where we were thinking she would be, but we didn’t want to leave here without her. It’s very exciting. She’ll go back to Britain and be trained there, although no trainer has been decided upon yet.”

Bred by Newstead Breeding, the sales-topper was consigned by Glenvale Stud, whose Ciaran Conroy said, “You can never expect a price like that. That said, when you have an animal like that, anything can happen. She’s by a top-class stallion who’s had a great year and she’s obviously a full-sister to the best two-year-old sprinter around.”

Blackbeard, along with this season's Group winning juveniles Aesop’s Fables, Little Big Bear, Meditate and Trillium, was bred off the back of No Nay Never’s outstanding first crop, and his meteoric rise through the stallion ranks saw his progeny sell for an average €256,391 at the Orby Sale.

Coolmore Stud’s No Nay Never - a son of Scat Daddy, is doing a terrific job. Whilst they are having immediate success with another First Crop Sire of Scat Daddy in JUSTIFY who leads the North America first crop sires.

At Dynamic Syndications we have gone long on JUSTIFY having purchased 4 yearlings this year by the exciting sire with two of the four bred on the same cross as BLACKBEARD.

Our 2yo Filly from PICKIN’ TIME has been named JUST IN TIME and is bred on the same cross as BLACKBEARD

Whilst our 2yo Colt from FIRE OPAL is also bred on the same cross as BLACKBEARD.

In fact, there are 32 Stakes Winners (6 Gr1 Winners) bred on the highly successful SCAT DADDY x DANZIG cross.

Three of these are Australian Stakes Winners where the cross rates an impressive A+ 668%.

They are NEED I SAY MORE (Gr2); MANA NUI (Gr2) and LADY OF HONOUR (LR).

Whilst the 6 Gr1 Winners are:

BLACKBEARD 2020 C G1

ALCOHOL FREE 2018 F G1

COMBATANT 2015 C G1

DONA YERBA 2019 F G1

SIOUX NATION 2015 C G1

TEN SOVEREIGNS 2016 C G1