Now a four-year-old, Scatcat has been sidelined since snapping a sesamoid at her most recent run at Rosehill on May 30.

Scatcat had two screws inserted in her fetlock but Cavanough has opted against making a return to racing.

“She is probably too valuable as a brood mare to bring her back,” Cavanough said.

“The risk of getting re-injured is fairly high when they are running around with pins and bolts in their fetlocks.

“The sad part is I don’t ever think we got to see the best of her despite graduating through the grades the way she did in quick fashion.

“She was placed in town on a couple of occasions and you don’t see many do that in the amount of starts that she had.

“It cost $13,000 to have her operated on, so the owners are keen to try and breed from her.”

Scatcat won five of 16-career starts and almost $100,000 in career earnings.

The daughter of Shaft won five out of six races over the spring last year enticing Cavanough to tackle the Wodonga Cup in November.

Scatcat produced the worst run of her short career in Wodonga’s premier race.

She finished a distant last after jockey Jake Duffy eased her out of the race at the top of the home straight believing there was something physically amiss.

Scatcat returned in March and notched two city placings at Sandown as well as her final career run at Rosehill.

Meanwhile Cavanough is keen for Steakandbearnaise to step-up to the 2000 metres after scoring an impressive five-length romp on his home track on Tuesday over a mile.

He ruled out sending Steakandbeanaise for an immediate spell.

“He will just go through his grades and we will have a crack over 2000 metres next start,” he said.