The late Scat Daddy didn’t need much more of a boost in the commercial arena. With supply and demand dynamics at play since his death at the young age of 11 in December 2015, and his star continuing to rise thanks to international stars such as champion Lady Aurelia and a host of other Grade 1/Group 1 winners, the horses in his final crops were already in hot demand. But the stallion is now in rare air as the sire of a Triple Crown winner, and the first chance to measure “the Justify effect” gives this week’s Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. June sale of 2-year-olds in training and horses of racing age sale some added luster. Following early outs, four juveniles from Scat Daddy’s final crop were expected to sell at the auction, set for Wednesday-Friday in Ocala, Fla., with each of the three sessions beginning at 10 a.m. Eastern. A total of 936 horses – the great majority of them 2-year-olds – were cataloged for the sale, representing catalog growth of 22 percent from the 2017 edition. The increase was not unexpected – last year’s catalog marked a major decrease and the sale was cut to two days compared with four days in 2016. The 2017 average sale price was $35,733, a spike of 26 percent from the prior year, and the median rose 46 percent to $19,000. The buyback rate finished at an outstanding 19 percent in 2017. :: Get breeding & sales news, Beyer info, and more delivered right to your email! Scat Daddy’s contingent is led by a colt who breezed a furlong in 9 4/5 seconds at last week’s under-tack preview show, making him one of six to tie for the fastest move at that distance on the Ocala Training Center’s all-weather Safetrack surface. The colt, consigned by Top Line Sales, as agent, is out of the Gone West mare Satulah. Satulah is out of Grade 3 winner War Thief, making her a half-sister to Grade 3 winner Boss Lafitte and stakes-placed Sandsarita. This colt failed to meet his reserve at the 2017 Keeneland September yearling sale, with a high bid of $385,000, and was entered but withdrawn from the OBS March juvenile sale. Scat Daddy’s other offerings are a colt whose dam is a half-sister to Group 1 winner Nebraska Tornado; a colt out of Grade 2 winner Last Song; and a colt who is a half-brother to Grade 2 winner Alpha Kitten, with both out of a sister to Grade 1 winner and stakes producer Marylebone. Scat Daddy has been on a run through the commercial arena with his younger stock. At the 2016 Keeneland September yearling sale, the first edition of that bellwether auction following his death, he sired the sale-topping $3 million colt who would become Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf winner Mendelssohn. Future Triple Crown winner Justify sold for $500,000 at that same auction, as Scat Daddy finished second by gross sales. At the 2017 Keeneland September sale, yearlings from Scat Daddy’s final crop made him the leading sire by gross. With that final crop moving on to this year’s juvenile auctions, Scat Daddy sired a colt who sold for seven figures at the marquee Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream selected sale, and also sired an $875,000 filly who led the OBS March auction.