BLACKBEARD'S FIRST-CROP SALES YEARLINGS INCLUDE: DAM/SEX SIRE OF DAM PURCHASER € PRICE Liberisque c. Equiano M V Magnier & White Birch Farm €605,000 Alfea f. Kentucky Dynamite R M Beckett €545,000 Whirly Dancer c. Danehil Dancer Jamie McCalmont Bloodstock €360,000 White Rosa f. Galileo M V Magnier €325,000 Silver Step c. Silver Frost SackvilleDonald €195,000 Stellar Glow c. Sea The Stars Durcan Bloodstock/Richard Hughes €150,000 East Of Eden c. Exceed And Excel MC Bloodstock €130,000 Fancy Vivid f. Galileo Rockfield Farm €115,000 Dancing On Air c. Fastnet Rock Danny Murphy €110,000 French Matilda f. Australia Highclere Agency €110,000 Abilene c. Samum Jamie McCalmont €105,000 Arabic Charm f. Exceed And Excel Durcan Bloodstock/Richard Hughes €105,000 Serenely c. Australia Sam Sangster Bloodstock €105,000 Lucky At The Bay c. Lucky Pulpit Highflyer/Eve Johnson Houghton €105,000 McCool c. Giant's Causeway Linehan Bloodstock €100,000 Valeurette c. Street Sense Greenhills Farm €100,000 FOR GROUP WINNERS BY HIS SIRE NO NAY NEVER: See page 62 . 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, including the Gr.2 Norfolk Stakes and 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. His credentials ensured keen demand for his first-crop yearlings, which sold for up to 500,000gns. 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 Gr.3 winner out of a mare by SEA THE STARS (a half-brother to Blackbeard’s broodmare sire). No Nay Never has an impressive 21% BTWs from 24 foals out of mares by OASIS DREAM , including Gr.1 7f winner Never So Brave and Gr.2 2YO winners Array and Les Pavots. OASIS DREAM also sired the dams of Caravaggio’s Gr.1 winner Whitebeam and El Kabeir’s fast daughter Azure Blue, while Sioux Nation, another of Scat Daddy’s sons, has several good winners inbred 3x3 to OASIS DREAM , including Group winners Sydneyarms Chelsea and Ocean Quest. Blackbeard would suit grand-daughters of GREEN DESERT . Mares by sons of INVINCIBLE SPIRIT , such as KINGMAN and LAWMAN , would create 4x3 to INVINCIBLE SPIRIT , a sire of more than 70 Group winners. Blackbeard could be an ideal means of injecting precocity into the daughters of SEA THE STARS . This creates 5x4 to GREEN DESERT and 4x3 to the great mare Urban Sea. No Nay Never’s multiple Gr.1-winning filly Alcohol Free is out of a grand-daughter of Danzig, by HARD SPUN . He is also working very well with mares by sons of DANEHILL . In addition to Ten Sovereigns, out of an EXCEED AND EXCEL mare, he has black-type winners out of daughters of HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR , KODIAC , ROCK OF GIBRALTAR (Gr.2 scorer Land Force), FASTNET ROCK (Gr.1 winner True Love and Gr.2 winner Truly Enchanting), DANSILI , ORATORIO and CATCHER IN THE RYE . Mares by CAMACHO and CLODOVIL would also reinforce Blackbeard’s speed, as would daughters of CHOISIR , 14
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