THERE is no stopping Sioux Nation (Scat Daddy), and that momentum is certain to carry on into the upcoming sales where he will be well represented with sons and daughters. His fifth European crop are this year’s juveniles, and two of that cohort won group races in France in the past week.

Let’s stop for a moment to look at Sioux Nation’s juvenile sire record, one befitting a colt who himself won the Group 1 Keeneland Phoenix Stakes at the Curragh and Royal Ascot’s Group 2 Norfolk Stakes at two. In a stunning first season with runners, a shade less than half of his runners won, with 45 of them seen in the winners enclosure. Three were stakes winners and seven of them were winners or placed in group races. He had been the busiest flat stallion in his first year at stud.