No Half Measures is the second foal of the placed Fascinator (Helmet) and her second winner. Her half-sister Trilby (Twilight Son) has won five races.

Second dam Mary Read (Bahamian Bounty) won twice at two and finished second in the Gr.3 Molecomb Stakes. Four of her five runners have won, and she is also the second dam of Kachy (Kyllachy), who won the Gr.3 Molecomb Stakes and was placed in the Gr.1 Diamond Jubilee Stakes and, as runner-up, in the Gr.1 Commonwealth Cup.

Third dam Hill Welcome (Most Welcome) was placed and bred 12 winners. Besides Mary Read they include the Listed-placed Above N Beyond (Exceed And Excel) and Tiana (Diktat), placed in the Oh So Sharp Stakes, then a Listed race, and the dam of three black-type winners: Beat The Bank (Paco Boy), a five-time Group 2 winner and second in the Gr.1 Queen Anne Stakes, Chil Chil (Exceed And Excel), who took the Gr.3 Chipchase Stakes and was third in the Gr.1 Haydock Sprint Cup, and the Listed winner Auria. Another daughter of Hill Welcome produced Maylandsea (Havana Grey), runner-up in the Gr.2 Queen Mary Stakes.

Hill Welcome is a half-sister to Stalker (Kala Shikari), winner of the Gr.1 Middle Park Stakes and later a sire.

Fascinator's younger foals are the unraced three-year-old filly Gypsophila (Expert Eye), the two-year-old filly Mystic Veil (Showcasing) and a yearling colt by Territories.