IT was always odds-on that Sioux Nation would attract a considerable amount of support at stud.

When he retired his sire’s profile was at all-time high following a huge international season that featured Justify’s undefeated US Triple Crown sequence, and Sioux Nation was a sprinter retiring to stud in a part of the world that strongly associates his father with pure speed.

The achievements of Scat Daddy as a sire were remarkable, especially given how young he was when he died. The son of the international juvenile champion Johannesburg (Hennessy) got 133 stakes winners, of whom 31 won at the highest level. He covered his last mares at the age of 11.

Scat Daddy was a nine-furlong horse who got many top-class performers from eight to 10 furlongs; his shuttle seasons to Chile saw him become a leading classic sire and Justify was his second Grade 1 scorer over 12 furlongs.

However, when Scat Daddy got a talented sprinter, they tended to be very good indeed. Group 1 sprint star and classic sire No Nay Never has cemented his reputation now as a sire of sires.

Sioux Nation covered 241 mares in his first season at Coolmore, and his first sales stock were very well received. They hit the track in 2022 and contributed to a sensational season which ended with 45 individual winners, three stakes winners and eight others who were stakes placed.

Now, Sioux Nation has already sired his fourth stakes winner from that initial crop, and the sky’s the limit.

The list is headed by a pair of Group 3 winners, Lakota Sioux who was also placed in the Chesham Stakes at Royal Ascot, and Sydneyarms Chelsea, while last year’s juveniles also included the listed winner Matilda Picotte who placed in a pair of Group 2 races. Four of last season’s two-year-olds, Ocean Quest, Kinta, Ancestral Land and Small Oasis were group-placed.

Race record

Sioux Nation won his maiden by nearly four lengths at Cork from Yulong Warrior, a month before landing the Group 2 Norfolk Stakes at Royal Ascot. He followed that with victory in the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes.

The following spring, Sioux Nation added the Group 3 Lacken Stakes at Naas, defeating the talented pair Fleet Review and Speak In Colours in style. He was later beaten less than a length when third to Havana Grey in the Group 1 Flying Five Stakes.

Combine precocity and speed with the Scat Daddy factor, and throw in the fact that his Oasis Dream (Green Desert) dam, a winner on her only start, is out of the Group 1-placed, Group 3 Ballyogan Stakes winner Catch The Blues (Bluebird), and it’s easy to see why Sioux Nation is proving to be so popular and successful.

Race record

SIOUX NATION (USA), Bay 2015. Won four races, £271,661, from 5 furlongs to 6 furlongs, at 2 and 3 years including, Keeneland Phoenix Stakes, Curragh, Gr.1, Norfolk Stakes, Ascot, Gr.2, Goffs Lacken Stakes, Naas, Gr.3, also placed third in Derrinstown Stud Flying Five Stakes, Curragh, Gr.1.

At stud

Stud in 2019, and sire of the winners of 78 races, and £1,125,691, including LAKOTA SIOUX (IRE), SYDNEYARMS CHELSEA (IRE), BRAVE EMPEROR (IRE), MATILDA PICOTTE (IRE), Kinta (IRE), Ocean Quest (IRE), Ocean Jewel (IRE), Ancestral Land (GB), Small Oasis (GB), Direct Security (IRE), Estrosa (IRE), and Lakota Seven (IRE)

Information

Stands at: Coolmore Stud, Fethard, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, E91 XK26, Ireland

Contact: Christy Grassick, Maurice Moloney, Gerry Aherne, Jason Walsh, Mark Byrne, Neil Magee and Tom Harris

Telephone: +353 52 6131298

Email: sales@coolmore.ie

Web: www.coolmore.com

Fee: €17,500