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No Never No More Relocated To Pleasant Acres Stallions In Florida For 2022

Pleasant Acres Stallions is pleased to announce the son of Scat Daddy – No Never No More – will stand in Florida for the 2022 breeding season with a $2,500 fee.

Scat Daddy (Johannesburg / Love Style, by Mr. Prospector) was a multiple Grade 1 winner of $1,334,300. The sire of eight crops of racing age, he has had 134 stakes winners, 15 champions, and 791 winners who have earned a combined $93,255,766. According to BloodHorse MarketWatch data, in 2018, 24 of the 31 Scat Daddy 2-year-olds sold for $11,976,015.

“No Never No More is a handsome, athletic individual with a lovely head and kind eye. He exudes pure class as his pedigree would suggest,” said owner Irwin Olian of Tigertail Ranch.

No Never No More's first dam, Whosetheclownnow (Tiznow / Comical Cat, by Exceller) is by Tiznow, an exceptional racehorse who was on the board 14 out of 15 starts and finished his career at almost $6.5 million. A remarkable son of one of California's most successful sires, Cee's Tizzy, Tiznow is the only two-time Breeders' Cup Classic winner.

Retired last year from breeding, Tiznow was on the stallion roster for WinStar for almost 20 years with a stud fee that peaked at $75,000. Upon his retirement, his daughters had produced 37 stakes winners including Tiz the Law – winner of the Grade 1 Curlin Florida Derby, the G1 Champagne Stakes, the Belmont Stakes, and the G1 Runhappy Travers Stakes.

Whosetheclownnow is a half-sister to Cat's Eye Witness (Elusive Quality / Comical Cat, by Exceller) who produced $752,077 in progeny earnings with three winners out of four starters. She is the dam of No Nay Never (Scat Daddy / Cat's Eye Witness, by Elusive Quality) who was on the board six out of six starts with four firsts and two seconds.

A precocious athlete, No Nay Never broke his maiden in his first attempt and then went on to win the G2 Norfolk Stakes in Ascot and the G1 Darley Pix Morny in Deauville with his next two starts. A champion first-crop sire of 2018 and the sire of a champion from his first crop, No Nay Never stands in Ireland at Coolmore for €125,000. His yearlings in 2021 sold for up to $450,000.

No Never No More joins stallions Amira's Prince, Breaking Lucky, Bucchero, Curlin's Honor, Gunnevera, Handsome Mike, Long On Value, Neolithic, Ride On Curlin, and Sweetontheladies, at the 220-acre farm located just northwest of Ocala.

Pleasant Acres Stallions has received many accolades for excellence, including 2017 Florida Freshman Sire of the Year for Poseidon's Warrior, 2017 DRF Florida-bred Beyer Award, 2009 Florida Breeder of the Year, 2009 Florida Broodmare of the Year, Breeder of the 2009 Florida Horse of the Year, and was ranked third in the nation for leading breeders in 2009 by average earnings per starter with 10 or more starters.

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Chance It Retired To Journeyman Stud In Florida

Florida-bred Chance It, a winner of two of the three legs of the prestigious FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes in 2019 at Gulfstream Park, has been retired and will stand the 2022 breeding season at Brent and Crystal Fernung's Journeyman Stud in Ocala, Fla.

“We're excited to stand Chance It here at Journeyman next year,” said Journeyman's Brent Fernung. “He is a beloved Florida-bred racehorse that displayed tons of talent. Had he not got injured, I'm sure he would have annexed at least one Grade 1 stake before he was finished. Chance It won from six furlongs to a mile and a sixteenth and showed indications that he would have won going further. It'll be a pleasure to work with Mary and her entire team.”

Chance It was trained by Saffie Joseph Jr. for Shooting Star Thoroughbreds, a syndicate managed by Mary Lightner of Ocala, Fla.

Chance It won the $100,000 FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes Dr. Fager over six furlongs by 3 1/4 lengths on Aug. 3 of 2019 before dominating the $400,000 FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes In Reality two starts later in September, winning the 1 1/16-mile test by 7 1/4 lengths. He was also second, missing by just a head to Liam's Lucky Charm, in the $200,000 FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes Affirmed going seven furlongs on Aug. 31.

By Currency Swap out of Vagabon Diva, by Pleasantly Perfect, Chance It started his sophomore campaign with victory in the $100,000 Mucho Macho Man on Jan. 4, 2020 at Gulfstream Park, achieving a Beyer Speed Figure of 99 while defeating stakes-winner As Seen On Tv and future graded stakes-winner Sole Volante.

In four starts this year, Chance It was second twice including a runner-up performance in the Grade 3 Smile Sprint over six furlongs at Gulfstream Park on July 3 and third in the G1 Forego going seven furlongs at Saratoga on Aug. 28 while earning a 97 Beyer. He was retired after his final start in the G2 Kelso at Belmont Park on Sept. 25 when he suffered a minor injury to his left front leg.

Chance It, who was bred in the Sunshine State by Bett Usher, finished his career with four wins, four seconds and a third in 11 lifetime races while earning $583,330.

The handsome bay colt will join a stellar stallion roster at Journeyman Stud that includes Khozan, the leading sire in Florida in 2020 and 2021; St Patrick's Day, who is a full-brother to Triple Crown winner American Pharoah; and Mr. Money, a winner of four graded stakes as a 3-year-old.

Chance It's fee for the 2022 breeding season has not been announced.

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Cinco Charlie Sold To Stand At Leadem Farm In Texas

Grade 3 winner and promising young sire Cinco Charlie (Indian Charlie–Ten Halos, by Marquetry) has been purchased by Bob and Tyree Wolesensky's Leadem Farm and will relocate there for the 2022 breeding season after spending his first five seasons at Spendthrift Farm. Jay Goodwin orchestrated the deal.

“Texas racing is thriving and the breeding business is coming back,” said Goodwin. “Bob and Tyree approached me about finding a stallion that would fit Texas and I don't think we could have found a better one. Cinco Charlie was a brilliantly fast 2-year-old who won the Bashford Manor, was owned by Bill & Corinne Heiligbrodt and trained by Steve Asmussen, Texas Hall of Famers. This horse is Texas through and through.

“Cinco Charlie had the speed and precocity that Texas breeders want,” Goodwin continued. “Leadem Farm is an absolutely beautiful operation in the heart of Texas horse country and I'm sure that Cinco Charlie will have a long and successful career there. I want to thank Spendthrift Farm, particularly Eric Gustavson, Ned Toffey, Mark Toothaker and Bill Heiligbrodt for helping this transaction take place.”

Cinco Charlie won eight of his 18 career starts, for earnings of $608,920 with seven total stakes wins. He currently sits in the top 30 on the second-crop sire list and his top runners include the stakes-winning colt Huntsinger as well as Five Pics Please, who was second in the Grade 3 Sweet Life Stakes at Santa Anita earlier this year. Cinco Charlie's second crop includes the stakes-placed Serape and the impressive recent maiden winner Saint Charles.

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European Champion St Mark’s Basilica Retired To Coolmore Stud In Ireland

Last year's European champion 2-year-old and the highest-rated horse in the world this year, St Mark's Basilica, has been retired from racing and will retire to Coolmore for the coming season.

“St Mark's Basilica is possibly the best horse we have ever had in Ballydoyle,” said his trainer Aidan O'Brien. “He relaxes and quickens and has all the determination from Galileo and all the speed from Siyouni.”

St Mark's Basilica was bred by Bob Scarborough and raised at Norelands Stud, like his 2,000 Guineas-winning half-brother Magna Grecia, and was purchased by MV Magnier at Tattersalls October Book 1 for 1.3 million guineas.

Beginning with the Dewhurst last October, he notched up five straight Group 1 successes in three countries. After displaying his trademark turn of foot to great effect in the French Guineas and the Prix du Jockey Club, St Mark's Basilica put up arguably his finest performance in the Eclipse Stakes when scoring by 3 1/2 lengths from the multiple Gr.1-winning older horses Addeybb and Mishriff. Another excellent effort came in the Irish Champion Stakes when he got the better of Breeders' Cup winner Tarnawa and 2,000 Guineas and St. James's Palace Stakes winner Poetic Flare.

“He's the most exciting prospect we've retired from Ballydoyle since his late grandfather Galileo,” said Coolmore's David O'Loughlin. “European champion 2-year-old, the highest-rated 3-year-old in the world, a 1.3 million guineas yearling by a top sire in Siyouni, a half-brother to another brilliant horse in Magna Grecia, both out of Galileo's group-winning 2-year-old Cabaret. He has everything and he'll get terrific support from his owners' broodmare band too.”

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