While this year’s Dubai World Cup was cancelled, the legacy of one its most important winners continues to grow.
The late Street Cry, who romped to a four and a quarter length win in the 2002 G1 World Cup while leaving Arc winner, Sakhee (Bahri), eight and a half lengths in his wake, continues to play an important role in the pedigrees of high-class racehorses around the world.
2002 Dubai World Cup – Street Cry (photo: Dubai Racing Club)
Sarah Whitelaw writes that Street Cry is currently fifth on North America’s Leading Turf Sires List (despite having had only 12 runners on that surface this year-the four sires above Street Cry having all had upward of 100 runners), with his US turf runners headed by Gr1 Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational victor, Zulu Alpha.
His Kentucky Derby winning , Street Sense (Street Cry’s best sire son), is currently responsible for nearly 70 black type winners with his tally including unbeaten Kentucky Derby hope, Maxfield, and four time rG1 winner, McKinzie, runner up in last year’s Gr1 Breeders’ Cup Classic.
Roaring Lion
Also broodmare sire of short-lived Horse Of The Year, Roaring Lion (by Kitten’s Joy), Street Sense (who has a 2020 stud fee of $75 000) ended 2019 as North America’s ninth Leading Sire by earnings, with his progeny banking over $10 000 000 last year.
Street Sense is also the sire of Gr1 Golden Rose/Randwick Guineas victor, Hallowed Crown, whose daughter, Colette, won the recent Gr3 TAB Adrian Knox Stakes. Her sire’s first black type winner, Colette is now favoured to land the G1 ATC Australian Oaks. Another son of Street Cry, Gr1 Bing Crosby Handicap winner, Street Boss (like Street Sense and US Horse Of The Year, Zenyatta, a member of Street Cry’s remarkable first crop) is another who has had a good run of success this year. Already sire of such Gr1 winners as Cathryn Sophia (Kentucky Oaks), Danza (Arkansas Derby), and The Quarterback (Newmarket Handicap), Street Boss’ current stars include Smarty Jones Stakes winner, Gold Street, and G1 Blue Diamond Stakes runner up, Hanseatic.
Street Cry, the sire of 131 stakes winners including more than 20 Gr1 winners, is also sire of New Year’s Day (one of two Gr1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winners sired by Street Cry), whose son, Maximum Security, captured the inaugral Saudi Cup earlier this year. Now based in Japan, the well bred New Year’s Day (he is one of four graded stakes winners out of G2 Davona Dale Stakes winner, Justwhistledixie, herself a daughter of top broodmare sire Dixie Union) is currently North America’s Leading Sire for 2020, with his runners having earned over $10.357 million.
Of that total, $10 000 000 was earned by Maximum Security – which stakes have been frozen due to a court matter in New York
However, it is not only Street Cry’s sons, sire sons and grandsons who have enjoyed notable success of late. Street Cry’s daughters are responsible for seven stakes winners to date this year, and, in Australia alone, progeny of Street Cry daughters have already earned over AUS $6.677 million for the 2019-2020 racing season.
Golden Slipper winner Farnan
Notable runners, who are out of Street Cry mares, include Gr1 Longines Golden Slipper winner, Farnan (Not A Single Doubt), Gr1 Coolmore Classic victress, Con Te Partiro (Scat Daddy), and brilliant Gr2 Las Virgenes Stakes winner, Venetian Harbor (Munnings).
Street Cry, whose sire, Machiavellian, was an exceptional broodmare sire, ended 2019 as North America’s sixth leading Broodmare Sire by earnings. His 11 individual North American stakes winners last year were headed by US champion, Vino Rosso (by Curlin), whose wins in 2019 included both the G1 Gold Cup and G1 Breeders’ Cup Classic.
Ironically, Street Cry’s great daughter Zenyatta has failed to join her sire’s successful broodmare daughters, with the former US Horse Of The Year yet to supply a winner!
Zenyatta
Other Gr1 winners produced by Street Cry mares include Diversify (Jockey Club Gold Cup), Skitter Scatter (Moyglare Stud Stakes), Lyre (Blue Diamond Stakes), Street Band (Cotillion Stakes) and Pounamu (Kingstown Town Classic). It is surely safe to say that Street Cry’s Irish Oaks winning dam, Helen Street, herself a daughter of short-lived Epsom Derby winner, Troy, ranks as one of the more influential broodmares in the modern studbook.
Not only is Helen Street dam of Street Cry but her stakes placed daughter (a Machiavellian full-sister to Street Cry) is the dam of champion and prominent sire, Shamardal, himself the sire of the increasingly successful stallion, Lope De Vega. Shamardal has already enjoyed success when mated to daughters of Street Cry, with the combination producing G2 Rockfel Stakes winner, and 1000 Guineas runner up, Lucida.
Helen Street herself was a direct descendant of the hugely influential Persian Gulf mare Sunny Gulf, whose other notable descendants included such notable classic winners/G1 winners as Neo Universe, Sun Prince, Great Neck, Milenary, Sun Princess, Saddlers’ Hall, and Irish 2000 Guineas/Champion Stakes winner, and eventual KZN based sire, Spectrum.
