IT is hard to believe that Scat Daddy (Johannesburg) was only 11 when he died, and his departure came before the start of that season. The Ashford Stud-resident shuttled to South America and left behind 31 top-level winners among 133 blacktype scorers.

Scat Daddy was a classic sire in Chile before Justify swept the US Triple Crown in 2018, he has struck in Australia and Japan, and in addition to major winners in his native USA, he also supplied a string of outstanding performers in Europe.