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Imported UAS-bred mare Con Te Partiro became the first winner in Australia by the late sire Scat Daddy when she won the $200,000 Dark Jewel Classic at Scone on Saturday.

Con Te Partito (Scat Daddy x Temple Street by Street Cry) was purchased in Kentucky as a future broodmare prospect for Newgate Farm but was put into training with Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott after landing in Australia.

The five-year-old mare won the Listed Sandringham Handicap at Royal Ascot in 2017 for trainer Wesley Ward and had not started since last October.

She was purchased by SF Bloodstock and Newgate Farm for US$575,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky November Mixed Sale.

Scat Daddy, a huge success in the northern hemisphere before his early death, has had just four runners in Australia.

The late Street Cry also played a big role in the result of the G3 Dark Jewel Classic as he was the dam sire of the winners and two of his daughters finished second and third.

Con Te Partiro is out of the G1 winner Temple Street, also the dam of Listed winner Donworth (Tiznow) among her four winners.

She descends from the prolific Northern Dancer mare Northern Meteor, dam of G1 winners A Phenomenon and Seattle Meteor.

Her other descendants include G1 winners Pleasant Stage and Changeintheweather.

Temple Street had her unraced 2YO colt by Tiznow sold at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale for $475,000 last year.