GROUP WINNERS BY BLACKBEARD'S SIRE NO NAY NEVER: NAME SIRE OF DAM SIRE OF 2ND DAM GRADE ALCOHOL FREE Hard Spun Fairy King Gr.1 BLACKBEARD Born to Sea Pivotal Gr.1 LITTLE BIG BEAR Bering Miswaki Gr.1 MEDITATE Dalakhani Danehill Gr.1 TEN SOVEREIGNS Exceed And Excel Theatrical Gr.1 WHISTLEJACKET Bering Miswaki Gr.1 AESOP'S FABLES Shinko Forest Dancing Dissident Gr.2 ARIZONA English Channel Rainbow Quest Gr.2 ARRAY Oasis Dream Danehill Gr.2 BUBBLING Dashing Blade Indian Ridge Gr.2 CHESTNUT HONEY Chester House Relaunch Gr.2 LAKE FOREST El Prado Kris Gr.2 LAND FORCE Rock of Gibraltar Indian Ridge Gr.2 LES PAVOTS Oasis Dream Sadler's Wells Gr.2 MATRIKA High Chaparral Topsider Gr.2 MYSTERY POWER Haafhd Waajib Gr.2 NAY LADY NAY English Channel Rainbow Quest Gr.2 SHADN Sadler's Wells Habitat Gr.2 TRILLIUM Invincible Spirit Royal Applause Gr.2 TRULY ENCHANTING Fastnet Rock Giant's Causeway Gr.2 VISUALISATION Sadler's Wells Danehill Gr.2 WICHITA Dashing Blade Indian Ridge Gr.2 ZAIN CLAUDETTE Speightstown Affirmed Gr.2 ARMOR High Chaparral Mark of Esteem Gr.3 BATTLE CRY Dragon Pulse Dylan Thomas Gr.3 CAROLINE STREET So You Think Machiavellian Gr.3 HENRY ADAMS Galileo Encosta de Lago Gr.3 LOVE LOCKET Sea The Stars Indian Ridge Gr.3 MERRILY Selkirk Dansili Gr.3 MIDNIGHT MILE Galileo Darshaan Gr.3 NIKISOPHIA Indian Ridge Nashwan Gr.3 UNICORN LION High Chaparral Topsider Gr.3 VITALOGY Arch Woodman Gr.3 MATING SUGGESTIONS: In several ways Blackbeard emulated his sire No Nay Never, who made an impressive debut as early as April 26 and won his first three starts, notably the Gr.1 Prix Morny. Blackbeard made his mark even earlier and he was scoring for the third time in as many starts when running out an impressive all-the-way winner of the Gr.3 Marble Hill S. on May 21. After being caught in the last stride of the Gr.2 Railway S., he reeled off decisive victories in the Gr.2 Prix Robert Papin, Gr.1 Prix Morny and Gr.1 Middle Park S. to improve his career figures to six wins and a short-head second from eight starts. Blackbeard represents an unbroken sequence of seven generations of Gr.1 2YO winners from his male line. Blackbeard is out of a mare by GREEN DESERT’s grandson Born to Sea. GREEN DESERT’s son INVINCIBLE SPIRIT sired the dam of No Nay Never’s fast Gr.2 winner Trillium, while another son of GREEN DESERT sired the dam of Gr.2 2YO winner Aesop’s Fable. No Nay Never has a 7f Gr.3 winner out of a mare by SEA THE STARS (a three-parts-brother to Blackbeard’s broodmare sire BORN TO SEA ). No Nay Never has an impressive 14
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