When promising filly Little Suzie (Trippi) broke her maiden by three and a quarter lengths at Hollywoodbets Durbanville on Saturday, she became the first winner for her dam Oh Susanna.
Oh Susanna hangs on to beat Last Winter in 2018 Sun Met (Pic – Hamish Niven Photography)
The latter, South Africa’s Horse Of The Year, Champion Middle Distance Horse, and Champion 3YO Filly of 2017-2018 and Equus Champion Older Filly/Mare the following season, became the first three-year-old filly in over 100 years to win the Met when she triumphed in the Gr1 Sun Met of 2018.
Oh Susanna, a half-sister to Drakenstein Stud’s new stallion Sharp Frank (Frankel) won six of 15 starts including two runnings of the Gr1 Cartier Paddock Stakes.
Oh Susanna was sired by Street Cry, an outstanding sire who continues to make his presence felt in major races around the world. The son of Machiavellian and Irish Oaks winner Helen Street sired 135 stakes winners despite dying at the relatively young age of 16.
Winner of five of 12 starts, Street Cry scored his biggest win when romping home to a four and a quarter length win in the 2002 Gr1 Dubai World Cup and also won the same year’s Gr1 Stephen Foster Handicap by six and a half lengths.
Champion Sire in Australia in 2015-2015, Street Cry sired a lengthy list of champions headed by legendary racemares Winx and Zenyatta (who won 56 races between them!), Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense, and Melbourne Cup/Australian Cup victor, Shocking.
His sire sons and broodmare daughters are ensuring that Street Cry remains a notable presence in top class races around the world. Street Cry’s top sire son Street Sense, broodmare sire of the much missed Roaring Lion (Kitten’s Joy) has sired 100 stakes winners, of which 12 are Gr1 winners.
The magnificent Street Cry – a son of Machiavellian and Irish Oaks winner Helen Street (Pic – Supplied)
Street Sense’s four-time Gr1 winning son Mckinzie has made a cracking start with his first two-year-olds this year headed by Gr1 Hopeful Stakes winner Chancer McPatrick as well as Gr1 Del Mar Futurity runner-up Mckinzie Street.
Another top-class son of Street Sense, Maxfield, made a big impression at the recent Keeneland September Yearling Sale where members of his first crop made up to $1 000 000.
Another son, Street Boss, has also enjoyed plenty of success at stud, with his star performers including 2016 Gr1 Kentucky Oaks winner Cathryn Sophia, 2024 Gr1 Stow Storage Memsie Stakes winner Pinstriped and Anamoe. The latter was Australia’s Horse Of The Year in 2022-2023, winning no fewer than nine Gr1 races and earning AUS $11 127 025 in prize money.
Other sons of Street Cry to sire at least one Gr1 winner include New Year’s Day, Per Incanto, Street Hero, Shocking and Pride Of Dubai. The latter, a half-brother to South African champion Enaad (High Chaparral), is responsible for 23 stakes winners notably 2024 Gr1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud winner Dubai Honour, top sprinter Bella Nipotina and triple Gr1 winner Pride Of Jenni. Pride Of Jenni, who has earned more than AUS $8.8 million in stakes, romped to a six and a half length win in this year’s Gr1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Randwick.
Street Cry was Leading Broodmare Sire in Hong Kong in 2023-2024, where his maternal grandson Romantic Warrior (out of the Street Cry mare Folk Melody) dominated proceedings. To date, Romantic Warrior has won eight Gr1 winners including the 2023 Ladbrokes Cox Plate and 2024 Yasuda Kinen.
One of Street Cry’s best broodmare daughters is Minidress – whose son Rebel’s Romance (Dubawi) won Sunday’s Gr1 Preis Von Europa by a neck. Victorious in the same race in 2022, Rebel’s Romance was winning for a 13th time, with the gelding’s five previous Gr1 scores including the 2022 Gr1 Longines Breeders’ Cup Turf.
Minidress is also dam of Measured Time (Frankel), winner of both the Gr1 Jebel Hatta and Gr1 Resorts World Casino Manhattan Stakes this year.
Street Cry, who also ranks as the broodmare sire of Avontuur Thoroughbred Farm’s well-bred stallion Talk Of The Town (Var), made his presence felt in South Africa with just a handful of runners.
While Oh Susanna was undoubtedly her sire’s standout performer here, Street Cry also sired local stakes winners Eight Street (Gr2 Victory Moon Stakes, Gr3 Cup Trial), Hollywoodboulevard (Gr3 Fillies Mile, Gr3 Three Troikas Stakes), and Macduff (Darley Arabian).
Street Cry also sired the classy Alshibaa, who won his first two starts in South Africa before finishing third in the Listed Sea Cottage Stakes.
