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From the Desk of Billl Oppenheim P6 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2014 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here STREET CRY EUTHANIZED KEENELAND NUMBERS STILL STRONG by Alan Carasso, additional reporting by Kelsey Riley Session nine of the Keeneland September Sale saw Street Cry (Ire) (Machiavellian--Helen Street {GB}, by another day of strong trade yesterday with significant Troy {GB}), winner of the G1 Dubai World Cup and sire gains in gross, average and median. A total of 289 of Horse of the Year Zenyatta and champion and GI yearlings sold for a gross of $13,467,500, which was Kentucky Derby hero Street SenseBboth from his first up from last year=s figures of 311 sold for a total of crop--has died at $11,179,500. The average of $46,600 increased by the age of 16 after 29.6% since last year. The median also rose to succumbing to $35,000, up 29.63% from last year=s figure of complications $27,000. Litt/Solis Bloodstock purchased session relating to a topper hip 2435, a filly by Scat Daddy, for $350,000 neurological as well as hip 2655, a filly by Curlin, to become the condition. session=s leading buyer. Cont. p9 AStreet Cry epitomized everything that Darley and Street Cry (1998-2014) Godolphin aim to (718) 978-8200 Darley photo achieve,@ www.mersant.com commented John Sponsors of the following stats for the: Ferguson, bloodstock advisor to Sheikh Mohammed. AHe was bred by Sheikh Mohammed in Ireland, excelled KEENELAND SEPTEMBER YEARLINGS at the very highest level on the racecourse in Dubai and SESSION TOTALS 2014 2013 the U.S., and then became the lynchpin of our stallion Catalogued 398 397 operations in both America and Australia. His No. Offered 348 357 No. Sold 289 311 contribution to the breed has been significant and we RNAs 59 46 have been so fortunate to have him. He will be sorely % RNAs 16.9 12.9 missed by everyone.@ High Price $350,000 $185,000 Gross $13,467,500 $11,179,500 Average (% change) $46,600 (+33.3) $34,947 Bred to Be Brilliant... Median (% change) $35,000 (+29.6) $27,000 Street Cry was bred by Sheikh Mohammed from Helen Street, the first foal out of Waterway (Fr) (Riverman), winner of the G3 Prix du Cavaldos in 1978 and third home in the G1 Poule d=Essai des Pouliches the following spring. Racing in the colors of Lord Weinstock=s Ballymacoll Stud, Helen Street followed in her dam=s hoofprints with a win in the 1984 Cavaldos, but celebrated her most productive year at the track the following season for trainer Dick Hern, with a win in the G1 Irish Oaks and a third-place effort in the G1 Yorkshire Oaks before finishing fourth to champion Vanlandingham in the GI Washington D.C. International S. at Laurel. Following a private acquisition, Helen Street produced her first foal for Sheikh Mohammed=s operation in 1987 and was responsible for French MSP Sovetsky (GB) (Soviet Star) and SP Helsinki (GB) (Machiavellian), but it was the latter=s full sibling, foaled in 1998, who put the mare on the map. Cont. p3 IN THIS ISSUE CO-PUBLISHERS President: Barry Weisbord [email protected] @barryweisbord Vice President: Sue Finley [email protected] @suefinley BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Director of Business Development: Gary King [email protected] EDITORIAL [email protected] Editor-in-Chief: Jessica Martini Managing Editor: Alan Carasso Racing Editor: Steve Sherack Racing Analyst/Social Media Director: Brian DiDonato Associate Editor: Justina Severni Assistant Editor: Christie DeBernardis Assistant Editor: Heather Likins ADVERTISING [email protected] Director of Advertising: Alycia Borer Art Director: Lia Kusch Sr. Ad Coordinator/Dir. of Distribution: Sarah K. 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[email protected] Page 6 WORLDWIDE INFORMATION International Editor: Kelsey Riley [email protected] Atreides Works for Indiana Derby Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing: Sean Cronin Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing: Tom Frary [email protected] J “TDN Rising Star” J Atreides (Medaglia d’Oro) breezed a half-mile yesterday at Gulfstream Park in preparation for a start in the GII Indiana Derby 60 Broad Street, Suite 100 • Red Bank, NJ 07701 Oct. 4. 732-747-8060 | 732-747-8955 (fax) Page 11 www.thoroughbreddailynews.com www.thetdn.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 9/18/14 • PAGE 3 of 11 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Word on the Street... In spite of a European grass pedigree top and bottom, Sheikh Mohammed had the foresight to attempt a U.S. dirt career with Street Cry. It was a decision that would STREET CRY=S GRADE/GROUP 1 WINNERS return major dividends. A seven-length maiden winner at second asking at Del Mar for trainer Eoin Harty (video), the handsome dark bay was runner-up in the Horse Broodmare Sire Earnings GII Del Mar Futurity (103 Beyer speed figure) and in the Zenyatta Kris S $8,521,641 GII Norfolk S. (105 Beyer) trying two turns for the first time before enduring a wide trip when third to Macho Street Sense Dixieland Band $5,602,580 Uno (Holy Bull) and subsequent dual Classic winner Shocking (Aus) Danehill $4,981,275 Point Given (Thunder Gulch) in the 2000 GI Breeders= Whobegotyou (Aus) Carnegie (Ire) $3,263,450 Cup Juvenile (video). cont. p4 New Year’s Day Dixie Union $1,200,909 Long John (Aus) Night Shift $1,068,876 Seventh Street Meadowlake $1,002,028 Street Boss Ogygian $903,707 Victor’s Cry Clever Trick $810,167 Street Hero Summer Squall $461,064 Here Comes Ben Dayjur $457,553 Majestic Roi Hero’ Honor $398,218 Cry and Catch Me Doc’s Leader $288,559 Lyric Of Light (GB) Green Desert $208,095 Tomcito Eastern Echo $171,483 Street Cry storms home in the World Cup Horsephotos TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 9/18/14 • PAGE 4 of 11 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Street Cry cont. "He was a brilliant horse, who was from a superb Sent to Dubai to prepare for a possible Classics family and so easy to train. His victories in the Dubai campaign of his own in 2001, Street Cry bested World Cup and Stephen Foster H. were magnificent. He Noverre (Rahy) in the UAE 2000 Guineas (video), but proved himself to be one of the world's best, while his was upended by stablemate Express Tour (Tour d=Or) in progeny have gone on to win many big races all over the G3 UAE Derby. While that one would go on to be the globe." eighth in the GI Kentucky Derby, Street Cry was forced to miss the middle portion of the year with a right front A Star in the Shed... ankle injury. Street Cry entered stud at Darley=s Kentucky satellite Runner-up in the GIII Discovery H. in one additional at Jonabell and a remarkable start it was. Among his 19 start at three, Street Cry ascended to become arguably first-crop winners in 2006 was the Jim Tafel-bred the best horse in Street Sense (Bedazzle, by Dixieland Band), who the world in 2002. achieved J “TDN Rising Star” J status in his He returned from a second career start and went on to score a record near five-month 10-length victory in the GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile en absence to rout his route to becoming his sire=s first champion and helping rivals by him to become the leading freshman sire of 2006. 8 1/2 lengths in Street Sense became the first to complete the Round 3 of the Juvenile/GI Kentucky Derby double in 2007, added a G2 Maktoum victory in the GI Travers S. and has gone on to a Challenge at Nad al successful stallion career of his own. Street Cry=s daughter of Vertigineux (Kris S.) did not debut until the Sheba with Frankie very end of her 3-year-old season, but Zenyatta became Dettori aboard, but Street Cry crusing in the Foster Horsephotos a J “TDN Rising Star” J in her own right on with the Italian Thanksgiving Day 2007 and went on to become one of opting for favored 2001 GI Breeders= Cup Classic the legends of the turf. Owned by Jerry and Ann Moss, runner-up Sakhee (Bahri), Street Cry carried Jerry Bailey the strapping dark bay went on to win the first 19 to the last of his four victories in the G1 Dubai World starts of her career, including a defeat of males in the Cup, scoring by 4 1/4 lengths with Sakhee back in third 2009 GI Breeders= Cup Classic. She was a three-time (video). Eclipse Award-winning older female and was named Where others have given World Cup participants 2010 Horse of the Year despite losing her perfect plenty of time to recover, connections pressed right on record in defense of her Classic title. Street Cry was an with Street Cry, returning him to the U.S. for a pair of even more prodigious sire of Grade/Group 1 winners sensational performances. Sent off the second choice in from his crop of foals born in 2005, a list including that year=s GI Stephen Foster H., the homebred rolled Sheikh Mohammed=s Apple Blossom H.