Group 1 winner Sioux Nation (Scat Daddy–Dream the Blues {Ire}, by Oasis Dream {GB}) is bound for Swettenham Stud in Victoria to stand the 2019 Southern Hemisphere season, the stud announced on Thursday. The 4-year-old, the first son of the late Scat Daddy to stand in Victoria, will command a fee of A$16,000 (plus GST) and will arrive Down Under in August. He holds court for €12,500 in his first season at Coolmore Ireland this spring.
“Securing Sioux Nation is an incredible coup for the Victorian breeding industry,” said Swettenham's Adam Sangster. “Tom Magnier and his father John Magnier recognise that breeders here have heavily supported Highland Reel (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) and although they had planned to stand Sioux Nation in the Hunter [at Coolmore Australia], the Magnier family have graciously allowed the stallion to stand with us at Swettenham Stud knowing he will be very popular with Victorian breeders.
“He's a Group 1 winning 2-year-old by a world-class sire. I saw him in Ireland and he is a magnificent, strong and masculine individual that stands over 16.1 hands. Raw power, he's built like a true Australian speed horse. He matured early and won at Royal Ascot at two. There is no doubt he will suit the Australian conditions, as all his wins were on turf and he loves fast ground.”
Bred by Fethard Bloodstock in Kentucky, the bay colt went into training for a Coolmore partnership and soon rose to prominence for trainer Aidan O'Brien in 2017, landing the G2 Norfolk S. at Royal Ascot and taking the G1 Phoenix S. at The Curragh later that summer. He continued to perform with credit last year, adding the G3 Lacken S. last May and was also third in the G1 Flying Five S., and retired with four wins in 15 starts and earnings of $363,292.
The second foal out of the winning Oasis Dream mare Dream the Blues, Sioux Nation's second dam is dual Irish highweight and Group 3 heroine Catch the Blues (Ire) (Bluebird), who also ran third in the G1 Haydock Park S. This is also the extended family of French champion 3-year-old and G1 Prix du Jockey Club hero Caracolero (Graustark).
Sangster added, “He comes from a European speed-focused pedigree. He is free of Danehill and Galileo blood and will be a brilliant breeding outcross for the Australian mare population.”
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