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31st Group / Grade 1 winner for Scat Daddy

Con Te Partiro (6 m ex Temple Street by Street Cry) failing to get in foal to Zoustar (Northern Meteor) and be sent back to Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott’s stable turned out to be a blessing in disguise when she won the Coolmore Classic (Gr 1, 1500m) at Rosehill on Saturday. 

"I worked for Gai as a lad and she is my absolute hero," said Newgate’s Henry Field, who purchased the mare with SF Bloodstock for US$575,000 at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale in 2018.

Con Te Partiro skipped through the wet ground winning by a length and a quarter lengths over Miss Fabulass (Frankel). Noire (Foxwedge) was a further short neck away third. 

"They tag-teamed me and said 'please put her back in training' and I'm glad I did."

Bott said Con Te Partiro's win was no shock and his only concern had been the deterioration of the track to the heavy range.

"I said it wouldn't surprise us to see her come out and do something like this today because we've made genuine excuses for her all the way through," Bott said.

"She just needs all the right conditions and I thought we'd found another excuse with the rain but she got through it well.

"She is a stakes winner in America, a stakes winner at Royal Ascot and a Group 1winner here.

"She has been around the world. She is a well-travelled mare and well credentialed."

The six-year-old mare is out of five time winning Grade 1 placed-Street Cry (Machiavellian) mare, making her a haif-sister to Listed winner Donworth (Tiznow). Her second dam is Northside Star (Pulpit), a half-sister to four winners including the dam of stakes winning pair Watch This Cat (Eskendereya) and Stylish Citizen (Proud Citizen).

Con Te Partiro's fourth dam meanwhile is the Listed winner Northern Meteor (Northern Dancer) who produced seven winners headed by the Grade 1 winning pair A Phenomenon (Tentam) and Seattle Meteor (Seattle Slew). 

Scat Daddy died at Coolmore’s Ashford Stud in Kentucky in 2015 and he is represented by his sire sons in Australia; Justify, Mendelssohn, No Nay Never and Sioux Nation, who all stand at Coolmore Australia in the Hunter Valley. The mare becomes her sires first Group 1 winner in Australia. 

Street Cry has sired 68 stakes winners as a broodmare sire headed by nine Group 1 winners, while the mare is bred on the same cross as European Group 1 winner Skitter Scatter.