STREET CRY FILLY FROM THE FAMILY OF ANYTIME

Emakhaya (Street Cry x Soneria)
(Please click photo to enlarge…) 

STREET CRY
EMPERORS PALACE READY TO RUN SALE 2009
8 NOVEMBER 2009 

Horse of the Year in the UAE and an annual Timeform rating of 130, Street Cry entered stud in USA and Australia in 2003 and become 2^nd leading freshman sire. Sire of 288 runners, 156 winners (54.2%), earnings of $20 million, 27 stakes winners and 16 stakes placed, including, STREET SENSE, Champion 2yo Colt in USA (Breeders Cup Juvenile G1, Kentucky Derby G1 and Tampa Bay Derby G3), ZENYATTA (Breeders Cup Ladies Classic G1), STREET HERO (Norfolk Stakes G1), WHOBEGOTYOU (Caulfield Guineas G1 and Stutt Stakes G2), STREET BOSS (Bing Crosby Handicap G1 and Triple Bend Handicap G1) and MAJESTIC ROI (Sun Chariot Stakes G1).   

We have a well bred filly by Street Cry on offer at this year’s Ready To Run Sale:

EMAKHAYA, out of Soneria, from the international family of Anytime (11 wins including  2^nd Tattertall’s Club Cup L), Cruisomatic (20 wins including  2^nd AJC Challenge Stakes G2), By Command (6 wins including 2^nd Wagga Gold Cup L) and Woolmaid (winner including 2^nd Auraria Stakes G3). A strongly made, correct filly, she has a good action and is doing all the right things going into the sale.

For more information on the Ready To Run Draft, please visit
www.summerhill.co.za

Off to the Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale...

“Off to distant shores…”
(SAA)

Megan RomeynThe boss jetted off to Melbourne on Thursday, where he and Kerry Jack will be attending the Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale from 1 to 4 March.

On the sale are offerings from many of the world’s current hot stallions; Exceed And Excel, whose son Reward For Effort won the Gr1 Blue Diamond Stakes this past weekend, Reset, himself a group winner, Street Cry, arguably the hottest stallion in the world right now who has sired a remarkable eight Group One winners including Kentucky Derby hero, Street Sense, Breeders Cup Classic heroine, Zenyatta, as well as the remarkable Whobegotyou. Also on offer are yearlings by Cape Cross, sire of six individual Group one winners and Elusive Quality, sire of the Kentucky Derby winner, Smarty Jones, and Breeders Cup Classic winner, Raven Pass.

The boss and Kerry should be kept busy for a while as they sift through the numerous lots and cast their beady eyes over future prospects for the farm. Stay tuned for updates on their progress.

THE NATIONAL YEARLING SALES: A few pointers

Street Cry
(Dubai Racing Club)

In bringing to a close yesterday’s blog, we proclaimed an historic event in the commencement of the foundations for the new Al Maktoum School Of Excellence. While today is of routine significance, it nonetheless marks the beginning of another chapter of importance in the lives of a new generation of horses. The 30-odd lots selected for the Emperors Palace National Yearling Sales was brought in today for the commencement of their education, and we guess this lot face one of the great acid tests of all time when its economic prospects are bound to be tested in an international climate which has red lights flashing for the luxury goods sector.

Their location for the next ten weeks will be the Final Call Yearling Preparation yard, named after Gaynor Rupert’s great foundation mare, and reclad in its stone finish in commeration of the 80^th birthday of Erica Bennet Goss, two Novembers ago.

No doubt, whatever the financial limitations of the credit squeeze, the Final Call yard will witness the visit of many an aspirant horseman between now and the departure of this lot for Germiston in the closing weeks of March.

Among the early entries is a daughter of America’s hottest young stallion, Street Cry, now boasting an incredible nine Grade One winners from his first three North American crops. Eight of these are from his first two crops, while his third crop has already yielded another as a juvenile in 2008. Down Under, where Street Cry got off to a rather belated start by their standards, he now has two Grade One performers from his first classic crop, including what is arguably the best three-year-old in Australia at the moment, Caulfield Guineas (Gr.1) hero, Whobegotyou.

This fellow’s another example of why there’s occasional folly in over-emphasizing the value of pedigree alone in your yearling selections (or for that matter, in your broodmare acquisitions). It’s the composition of these things, and their combination with the physicals and athleticism of the animal that counts, and the fact that Whobegotyou was offered at as modest a reserve as $25000 as a yearling (which he failed to reach, and he was subsequently sold for $17500) is testimony to this belief. There was hardly a Black type horse in sight in his female line, besides his Listed placed first dam.

The Summerhill draft is sure to be the subject of some intrigue, if only for the fact that it includes the only daughter of Street Cry on offer in South Africa this year.

Watch Whobegotyou winning the 2008 Caulfied Guineas.