Earlier
this week we highlighted the deeds of an outstanding shuttle sire in High
Chaparral (IRE), but he's not Robinson Crusoe as there is another that has gone
too soon and his results this season have left us all lamenting.
Darley based Street Cry (IRE) was euthanized last spring before he could cover
a mare and ever since his progeny have not stopped winning.
Already well established as an elite sire in both hemispheres, Street Cry is
riding high in Australia this year with 65 winners of over $6million in
prizemoney headed by 10 stakes-winners.
His success has generally been achieved with three year-olds and older horses
in Australia highlighted by star gallopers Shocking, Whobegotyou and Caulfield
Guineas winner Long John, but this year he's broken the mould with an
outstanding two year-old in Pride of Dubai.
A homebred for Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalifa Al Maktoum, Pride of Dubai is the
only two year-old in Australia this season to win more than one Group I event
having taken the MRC Blue Diamond Stakes and ATC Sires Produce Stakes.
A colt with a real dual hemisphere pedigree, Pride of Dubai is a half-brother
to stakes-winner Al Aneed from stakes-placed Danehill mare Al Anood, a
half-sister to French Group I winner Rafha, the dam of Group I winner and
champion European sire Invincible Spirit.
Expected to be better again at three, Pride of Dubai (pictured Steve Hart) looms as the colt most
likely to take Street Cry's influence in Australia through to the next
generation which is no doubt why Coolmore swooped quickly to ensure he will
ultimately return to stand at the pace of his birth.
Aged 16 at the time of his death, Street Cry is the sire of 89 stakes-winners
worldwide, 16 of them Group I winners headed by the unforgettable Zenyatta and
Breeders Cup Juvenile/ Kentucky Derby hero Street Sense, who gained some
redemption from his less than stellar stud stint in Australia when leaving us
the dual Group I winner Hallowed Crown.
With 6.5 % stakes-winners to foals and 8.2 % stakes-winners to runners, Street
Cry is without doubt a top class sire and his progeny at the 2015 Inglis
Australian Easter Yearling Sale averaged an impressive $451,875.
His last crop of Australian foals, 110 of them, are now weanlings and will be
in keen demand.
Inglis have just one that will be offered at their Select Weanling Sale, Lot 7 from Bell View Park, a
colt from stakes-placed Prairie Star (NZ) , while Magic
Millions have four youngsters catalogued and to see them click here.
Shuttle sires have changed the face of our breeding industry most notably
through Danehill (USA) and now through the likes of the still active champion
sire More Than Ready (USA) and Vancouver's sire Medaglia D'Oro (USA), which does make us wonder who will be the next to
succeed?
Will it be a son of War Front or will it be a horse from left field like an
Uncle Mo (USA), a Dream Ahead (USA), a Canford Cliffs (IRE) or an Animal Kingdom (USA)?
Whoever answers the question correctly will be right at the forefront of the
next big wave of change and those who see it first are those who reap the biggest rewards.