No broodmare more belies her inappropriate name than No Class. Her name is just the opposite of her claim to fame as there isn't another mare in Canadian Thoroughbred racing history whose runners have earned more than $6 million.

No Class is the dam of Sovereign Award winners Sky Classic ($3,240,398), Regal Classic ($1,456,584), Grey Classic ($602,029), Classic Reign ($327,808) and Classy N Smart ($303,222), whose daughter is Dance Smartly, the leading money-winning Thoroughbred in Canadian history and winner of the Breeders' Cup Distaff, an Eclipse Award and induction into the Hall of Fame. Dance Smartly has become as prolific a broodmare as her grandma; producing the 2000 and 2001 winners of the Queen's Plate - Scatter The Gold and Dancethruthedawn. This year another possible champion has emerged - Always A Classic, a Grade One stakes winner in Kentucky. Always A Classic, with earnings of $373,000, was No Class's final foal. She died in 1993.

Bred by Jack Hood of Stratford, Ontario, No Class was consigned by Roy Kennedy's Gateway Farms to the annual CTHS yearling sales in 1975 and was purchased by Sam-Son Farms for $25,000. As a runner she placed in the Princess Elizabeth and Yearling Sales Stakes. But her destiny was as a broodmare as she became the foundation mare of Ernie Samuel's world renown breeding nursery. She was named Broodmare of the Year in 1985. No Class is by Nodouble - Classy Quillo, by Outing Class.