Daddy Long Legs (Scat Daddy–Dreamy Maiden, by Meadowlake), the leading first-crop sire in Chile with five black-type winners and 10 stakes performers in 2017-2018, has been acquired by Taylor Made Stallions, Phoenix Thoroughbreds and KatieRich Farms and will stand the 2019 breeding season at Taylor Made for $10,000, stands-and-nurses terms. He previously stood at Haras Cordillera in Chile.
Winner of the 2012 G2 UAE Derby and nearly $1.35 million in career earnings, Daddy Long Legs sired 23 winners from his first crop to hit the track during the 2017/2018 season, including champion Fallen From Heaven (Chi), winner of five of his eight outings at two, topped by a victory in the G1 Tanteo de Potrillos on the dirt (see below). He is also a multiple Group 2 winner on turf. Atomicka (Chi) is the sire's other runner to score at group level, having annexed multiple Group 3 races on the dirt. Daddy Long Legs has been represented by an additional three stakes horses.
Daddy Long Legs's late sire was the leading sire in Chile from 2013 to 2016, siring 10 champions and two Chilean horses of the year. 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 Derby. 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.
“Daddy Long Legs sired a Group 1 stakes winner on the dirt and champion 2-Year-Old colt Fallen From Heaven in his first crop and has also produced graded stakes winners on the turf as well,” said Taylor Made's Duncan Taylor. “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 (by Scat Daddy) are off to great starts at stud, as both have sired Group 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.”
WATCH: Fallen From Heaven winning the Tanteo de Potrillos
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