STREET CRY (IRE): Continued Success across Hemispheres
By John DeReamer
Englishman (by Maxfield) delivered a commanding performance this past weekend in the Gr. 1 Woody Stephens S. at Saratoga, winning by 5¾ lengths and tying the 1978 7f track record in 1:20.40.
The victory gave Maxfield (by Street Sense)his first Gr. 1 winner from his first crop to race and provided the latest evidence of Street Cry’s enduring genetic impact.
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STREET CRY (IRE) 1998 by Machiavellian out of HelenStreet (GB) by Troy is perhaps best remembered as the sire of champion race mares Zenyatta and Winx as well as Kentucky Derby Winner Street Sense. However, his most profound legacy exists as a transformative bridge across continents and generations through his remarkable versatility as a world-class racehorse who became an international stallion, a prolific sire of sires, and a potent source of enduring linebreeding patterns that continue to produce versatile and elite performers on both dirt and turf.
This rare blend of North American speed and European classic stamina not only defined Street Cry’s own success but also explains why his influence continues to strengthen well beyond his death in 2014.
RACE CAREER
Street Cry (IRE) was a high-class racehorse in his own right. Despite his sire and dam only running on the turf, he campaigned a storied career on the dirt that included two Gr. 1 races on different continents: the Dubai World Cup and Stephen Foster Handicap.
He began his racing career in California finishing 2nd first time out in a Maiden Special Weight at Hollywood Park before going on to win at Del Mar and placing in the Gr. 2 Del Mar Futurity, Gr. 2 Norfolk at Santa Anita, and ending his two-year-old campaign finishing 3rd in the Gr. 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Churchill Downs behind Point Given and Macho Uno.
His three-year-old season started in Dubai, where he won a stakes race and placed in a Gr. 3 at Nad Al Sheba. Sent back to the United States with the goal of winning the 2001 Kentucky Derby, he was scratched due to ankle inflammation. Monarchos went on to win the race. Street Cry made only one more start that year, finishing second in the Gr. 3 Discovery Handicap at Aqueduct.
In 2002, he returned to Dubai and delivered his career-defining performance, winning the Gr. 1 Dubai World Cup under Jerry Bailey. Later that summer in the United States, the pair captured the Gr. 1 Stephen Foster Handicap at Churchill Downs and placed in the Whitney Handicap at Saratoga. He retired with $5,150,837 in earnings and a strong international stakes record.
STALLION CAREER
As a stallion, Street Cry (IRE) proved to be a consequential international sire. Darley had just purchased Jonabell farm for their American division in 2001 when he entered stud in 2003. He also shuttled to Australia for five Southern Hemisphere breeding seasons before retirement. In total he produced over 20 Gr. 1 winners and 130+ SWs internationally (21 Gr. 1 winners and 133 stakes winners from 1,970 named foals).
His first Northern Hemisphere crop from a $30,000 fee included Zenyatta, Street Sense, Street Boss, and Per Incanto. He earned Leading Freshman Sire honours with Street Sense’s 2006 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile win, and his fee rose to $100,000 after StreetSense’s 2007 Kentucky Derby victory coming off the pace to beat Hard Spun and Curlin and becoming the first racehorse to win the BC Juvenile KY Derby double.
His first Australian crop was nearly as impactful, producing 7 stakes winners including 2008/2009 Australian Champion Three-Year-Old Whobegotyou, plus graded winners Predatory Pricer and Shocking (2009 Melbourne Cup winner).
Success continued Down Under. From his 6th crop came the legendary champion filly Winx, who helped Street Cry become the first imported stallion since Danehill to lead the Australian general sire list (2015/2016). Winx won 37 of 43 starts, including a record 25 Gr. 1 races and four Cox Plates, with career earnings of over AUS$26 million. She was Australian Horse of the Year for five straight years.
PEDIGREE NOTES
Street Cry (IRE) by the Darley Dalham Hall Division Stallion, Machiavellian, out of Gr.1 Irish Oaks winner and Darley mare, Helen Street (GB), represents a blend of North American speed and classic European depth and the epitome of Darley’s homebred breeding program. The potent mix of American speed and European stamina present in his pedigree echoes the “British Invasion”; melodic sophistication with roots in British music halls and ballads that fused together with the raw energy and grit of American blues and R&B to produce the timeless rock classics of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Perhaps leaning more towards the Stones than the Beatles, nonetheless, Street Cry has proven to be a versatile conduit of the Machiavellian branch of Mr. Prospector that blends the best of both worlds.
Machiavellian himself was a notably versatile sire, producing graded stakes winners from five furlongs to two and a half miles setting him apart from the Mr. Prospector branches (Fappiano, Gone West, etc.) that were more North American dirt speed-oriented. His dam, Coupe de Folie, is inbred 3x3 to Almahmoud through the half-sisters Cosmah and Natalma. Machiavellian showed a strong affinity for mares that returned Almahmoud blood, particularly through Northern Dancer. With no Northern Dancer in Street Cry’s own pedigree, this opened the door for that affinity to be effectively passed forward. The pattern has appeared repeatedly in his best performers, including Winx, Street Sense, Per Incanto, and Pride of Dubai.
His dam, Helen Street (GB), was bred by Ballymacoll Stud and later purchased by Sheikh Mohammed. She was by Troy (IRE)out of Waterway (FR) by grandson of Never Bend, Riverman, and displayed significant linebreeding: five sex-balanced duplications of Nearco (through three sons and two daughters), plus inbreeding to Fair Trial (4x5) and Nasrullah (5x4), which further duplicates the blue hen, Lady Josephine. She is also the second dam of the late sire of sires, Shamardal, whose sons including Lope de Vega, Pinatubo, BluePoint, have further carried on her legacy. His daughters have also gone on to produce stakes winners including Awtaad (IRE), Converge (AUS), and Goliath (GER).
Street Cry (IRE) himself is an outcross through 5 generations apart from inbreeding to Nasrullah (5x5). However, deeper analysis through gen 9 reveals many important returns to key ancestors (Nearco, Blenheim, Spearmint, The Tetrarch, Banish Fear, Mumtaz Begum, etc.). Pedigreees360s sex balance analysis illuminates these patterns clearly with cross duplications highlighted when the daughter count reaches at least one-third.
X-Path Research
The Pedigrees360 “x-path” tool allows us to see that Street Cry (IRE) has an “x-path” to Banish Fear as well as Lady Josephine. While this is not incorporated into our Profile Cluster Graph rating, it is still of interest especially when approached with the simple philosophy that too much of a good thing is never enough. The X-path to Banish Fear through damsire of Halo on top and dam of PrinceJohn on bottom certainly makes a case for this as well as farther back with Lady Josephinewho we see come through via an x-path on top through Coupde Folie’s sire and dam as well as on bottom through Troy (IRE) sire and dam.
Males have an X and a Y chromosome (XY) and females have two X chromosomes (XX). The “X-path” traces the lines of inheritance of X-chromosomes from blue hen mares by highlighting the path and indicating with an X followed by the blue hens name when the paths come through all the way to a horse on top and on bottom side of a pedigree. The rules of inheritance for X chromosomes:
Sire passes down his single X chromosome to his daughters
Mare passes down one of her two X chromosomes to her daughters and sons (~50/50 chance which X-chromosome is passed down)
SIRE OF SIRES
Prominent sons and grandsons at stud; including Street Sense (Maxfield, McKinzie, Speaker’s Corner, and First Mission), Street Boss (Anamoe), Per Incanto, Shocking, and Pride of Dubaicontinue shaping the breed.
Street Sense 2004by Street Cry out of Bedazzle by Dixieland Band. Standing at Darley USA with a 2026 fee of $40,000. Champion 2-year-old, winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) and Kentucky Derby (G1). In the Northern Hemisphere he is the sire of 96 blacktype winners, 38 graded blacktype winners, and 5 champions from 16 crops of racing age. Damsire of 52 blacktype and 22 graded blacktype winners. His 13 lifetime Gr. 1 winners include the below four sons at stud:
McKinzie 2015 by Street Sense out of Runway Model by Petitionville. Standing at Gainesway Farm USA with 2026 fee of $75,000. First crop to race in 2024, 4GSWs, 9 BTWs including the below son at stud:
ChancerMcPatrick 2022 by McKinzie out of Bernadreamy by Bernardini. Standing at Spendthrift USA with a 2026 fee of $25,000.
Maxfield 2017by Street Sense out of Velvety by Bernardini. Standing at Darley USA with a 2026 fee of $50,000. First crop to race in 2025, 3 BTWs, 12 BTP, and 1 Gr. 1 winner, Englishman.
Speaker’s Corner 2018 by Street Sense out of Tyburn Brook by Bernardini. Standing at Darley USA with a 2026 fee of $10,000. First crop to race in 2026
First Mission 2020by Street Sense out of Elude by Medaglia d’Oro. Standing at Darley USA with a 2026 fee of $10,000. First crop to race in 2029
Street Boss 2004 by Street Cry out of Blushing Ogygian by Ogygian. Standing at Darley Australia with a 2026 fee of AUS$66,000. 14 Gr. 1 winners with 88 global stakes winners. Standing at Darley Australia.
Anamoe 2018 by Street Boss out of Anamato by Redoute’s Choice. Standing at Darley Australia with a 2026 fee of AUS$110,000.Australian Horse of the Year, 9-time G1 winner, now standing at Darley Australia. First crop yearlings lit up the sale ring this year with highest fist crop average in history.
Per Incanto 2004 by Street Cry out of Pappa Reale (GB) by Indian Ridge (IRE). Standing at Little Avondale Stud New Zealand with a 2026 fee of NZ$75,000.
Shocking 2005 by Street Cry out of Maria Di Castiglia by Danehill. Standing at Rich Hill Stud New Zealand with a 2026 fee of NZ$8,000. (NZ$8K at Rich Hill Stud New Zealand)
Pride of Dubai 2012 by Street Cry out of Al Anood by Danehill. Standing at Coolmore Australia with a 2026 fee of AUS$22,000.
LEGACY and INFLUENCE TODAY
Street Cry passed away in 2014, but his influence continues to grow through sons, grandsons, and elite broodmare daughters (who have produced numerous Gr. 1 winners including Romantic Warrior ( ’23 Hong Kong Horse of the Year), Broadsiding, Vino Rosso, and Rebel’s Romance). The Machiavellian branch of the Mr. Prospector line remains vibrant globally across a variety of distances and surfaces.
As Maxfield’s runners shine and Anamoe’s first crop approaches the races, Street Cry’s legacy as a bridge between continents is only getting stronger. Tools like Pedigrees360 make these deep patterns accessible to breeders evaluating the next wave of his influence.
