Little Big Bear

Bay202016.1 hh (1.65 m)
No Nay Never - Adventure Seeker
Distance won over: 5f. to 6½f.
Fee for 2025: €20,000

Stands at Coolmore


The highest-rated 2YO ever by NO NAY NEVER

First in-foal mares have sold for 220,000gns, €170,000, €140,000. €130,000, 120,000gns etc..

“Little Big Bear is a super horse; that’s the long and the short of it. Different class, different gear and matured very early for a big horse. He’s big, scopey, strong, clear winded and very, very fast – a class sprinter." Aidan O’Brien

EUROPEAN CHAMPION 2YO

1st Phoenix Stakes-Gr.1, Curragh, 6f, by 7 lengths

“Little Big Bear routs Phoenix rivals by seven lengths” BBC Sport

1st Anglesey Stakes-Gr.3, Curragh, 6½f, by 4¾ lengths

1st Windsor Castle Stakes-L.R., Royal Ascot, 5f

1st Maiden, Naas, 5f, by 3 lengths

TOP-CLASS SPRINTING 3YO

1st Sandy Lane Stakes-Gr.2, Haydock, 6f

2nd Commonwealth Cup-Gr.1, Royal Ascot, 6f

Rated 126p by Timeform at 2 years, 5lbs clear of all his contemporaries

A total outcross free of Sadler’s Wells and Danehill blood

  • LITTLE BIG BEAR, NO NAY NEVER, SCAT DADDY, JOHANNESBURG, HENNESSY, STORM CAT & STORM BIRD - all Gr.1-winning 2YOs!
  • Out of Longchamp Listed winner ADVENTURE SEEKER
  • A full brother to Gr.1 Prix Morny winner WHISTLEJACKET
  • Traces to the brilliant ALL ALONG
  • Realised €320,000 as a yearling at Arqana

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