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Andrew Caulfield, July 8, 2008–Zenyatta P EDIGREE INSIGHTS I could have chosen to write about Kamsin, the Deutsches Derby winner who represents something of BY ANDREW CAULFIELD a landmark, as he is inbred 4x4 to the great Sadler=s Wells through two of his first-crop sons. VANITY H.-GI, $300,000, HOL, 7-5, 3yo/up, f/m, Or I could have featured Mount Nelson=s sire Rock of 1 1/8m (AWT), 1:49 2/5, ft. Gibraltar, who also struck at Grade III level with 1--ZENYATTA, 124, f, 4, by Street Cry (Ire) Genuine Devotion, but there=s no escaping the fact that 1st Dam: Vertigineux, by Kris S. the stallion performance of the holiday weekend was by 2nd Dam: For the Flag, by *Forli Darley=s Street Cry. The 10-year-old=s stakes treble 3rd Dam: In the Offing, by Hoist the Flag featured Grade I successes by Zenyatta and Street ($60,000 yrl '05 KEESEP). O-Mr & Mrs Jerome S Boss. Moss; B-Maverick Production Limited (KY); T-John A The unbeaten Zenyatta and Street Boss--winners Shirreffs; J-Mike E Smith; $180,000. Lifetime jointly of 12 of their 16 starts--come from Street Cry=s Record: 6-6-0-0, $734,580. *1/2 to Balance outstanding first crop, sired at a fee of $30,000. This (Thunder Gulch), MGISW, $1,048,491; and Where's crop of 84 named foals has so far produced the Bailey (Aljabr), SW, $116,313. Werk Nick Rating: magnificent total of nine group/graded winners, which C+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. would be achievement enough. But, to my way of Click for the brisnet.com chart, the brisnet.com PPs o r thinking, his achievement has been made all the more the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, impressive by the variety of talents displayed by Street sponsored by Taylor Made. Cry=s standardbearers. But for the last-gasp lunges by Mount Nelson in the PEDIGREE INSIGHTS... Coral-Eclipse and Diamond Diva in the CashCall Mile, I Get pedigree expert Andrew would today be writing about a magnificent big-race double by Empire Maker=s half-brother Chester House, Caulfield’s take on racing’s the sire of Phoenix Tower and Ventura. With only three newsmakers! crops, the late son of Mr. Prospector is now as high as You can find all of Caulfield’s columns seventh on the sires= table, but he=ll have to wait for in the TDN Archive. another day. www.coolmore.com Street Sense, with his victories in the Kentucky The numerous group winners bred this way included Derby and Travers, has shown that Street Cry can pass the Group 1 winners Medicean, Storming Home, on the stamina which brought him success in the Dubai Rebecca Sharp and West Wind, so it is hardly surprising World Cup, and so has the Grade III winner Summer that this is also proving a popular cross with Street Cry. Doldrums. It isn=t hard to envisage Zenyatta also Street Sense and Majestic Roi are Grade I winners out staying 1 1/4 miles, following her last-to-first win in the of granddaughters of Northern Dancer. Vanity H. over a mile and an eighth. She has also shone There are also two Grade I winners out of mares from at around a mile, as has another Group 1-winning filly, the Hail to Reason male line, one being Cry and Catch the English-trained Majestic Roi. The U.S. filly Street Me and the other being Zenyatta. As Machiavellian=s Sounds could also be classified as a miler, even though dam was a granddaughter of Hail to Reason, these her best win came in the seven-furlong GII Beaumont S. Grade I winners have two lines of the sizeable Hail to However, Street Boss--Street Cry=s other Grade I Reason in the first five generations. The Grade III winner at Hollywood last Saturday--is one of a sizeable winner Street Magician is inbred 4x4 to Halo (and to number of talented sprinters among Street Cry=s Raise A Native). first-crop graded winners, others being the ex-Italian Another line which seems to suit Street Cry is the Per Incanto, Street Magician and the English-trained Big one descending from Damascus. Street Boss is out of Timer (recent winner of the 27-runner Wokingham H. an Ogygian mare and Summer Doldrums= dam is by over six furlongs at Royal Ascot). Unaccounted For. Then there=s the Peruvian star The versatility of Street Cry=s stock also extends to Tomcito, who is out of an Eastern Echo mare. underfoot conditions. Street Sense was at his most It is hard to believe that Zenyatta was snapped up for effective on traditional dirt, which also suited Street as little as $60,000 at Keeneland=s 2005 September Magician. Zenyatta also gained her GI Apple Blossom H. Sale, as she is the third stakes winner from the first success on the dirt, even though she has done most of three foals produced by Kris S.=s winning daughter her winning on synthetic surfaces, and Street Boss and Vertigineux. However, neither of Zenyatta=s elder Street Sounds have gained their most important wins siblings had earned black type by the time the Street on all-weather tracks. Cry filly came on the market. The first, Where=s Bailey, The turf team includes the Europeans Majestic Roi, won the Remington Park Oaks on turf five weeks later Big Timer and Per Incanto, plus Summer Doldrums and the second, Balance, gained the first of her five (winner of Friday night=s Presque Isle Mile) and Street stakes victories at the end of November. Balance, of Sounds. The all-weather crew also features Cry and course, became a multiple Grade I winner, with the Catch Me and Globetrotter, the two juvenile graded Santa Anita Oaks and Santa Margarita Invitational winners from Street Cry=s second crop. among her successes. Vertigineux has youngsters by This versatility regarding track surface is Pulpit and Giant=s Causeway, so she has every chance understandable in view of Street Cry=s pedigree, which of adding to her impressive achievements. combines a speedy American-bred sire, Machiavellian, Vertigineux is proving a worthy member of a with a stamina-packed British-bred dam, Helen Street. celebrated female line. Her fourth dam Mrs. Peterkin What I find more surprising is the number of sprinters made quite an impact on the list of the highest-priced by the Darley stallion. In winning the Irish Oaks, Helen yearlings sold in the USA. Mrs. Peterkin=s daughter Street displayed the type of stamina we came to expect Kinema (now the dam of Mizzen Mast) was sold for in the progeny of her short-lived sire, Troy. This $2,200,000 as long ago as 1984, three years after one exceptional performer romped home well clear in the of Mrs. Peterkin=s grandsons, the future Irish Derby 1979 Derby and Irish Derby before defeating the older winner Shareef Dancer, made $3,300,000. horses in the King George and the Benson & Hedges The fact that Balance was by the diminutive Thunder Gold Cup (now the Juddmonte International). Three of Gulch made me suspect that Vertigineux had inherited the seven stallions in the first three generations of plenty of size from her sire Kris S. This has been Troy=s pedigree contested the Ascot Gold Cup over 2 confirmed by Don Robinson of Winter Quarter Farm, 1/2 miles, which helps explain why Troy=s mature stock where Vertigineux is based. He recently described the built up an average winning distance of 12.7 furlongs. mare as Aa big ol= thing,@ so it is hardly surprising that Although Machiavellian was a champion juvenile who the Amazonian Zenyatta apparently stands nearly 17 never won beyond seven furlongs, he was mated to hands. numerous classically bred mares, the end result being So Street Cry has sired the champion Street Sense an average winning distance of around nine furlongs. from a mare by the 15.3 hands Dixieland Band, a Street Cry was a perfect example of this, gaining all lengthy, low-to-the-ground type, and he has another three of his stakes wins over nine or 10 furlongs. potential champion in Zenyatta, whose broodmare sire However, it is beginning to look as though the stood nearly 17 hands. It looks, then, as though Street Machiavellian/Mr. Prospector part of his pedigree often Cry is as versatile as his progeny. comes to the fore when he is mated to mares from speedy American lines. Caulfield cont. Machiavellian enjoyed much of his success with granddaughters of Northern Dancer, part of this cross=s appeal being that it produced 4x4 to Natalma and 5x5x5 to Almahmoud. ZENYATTA, f, 2004 Raise a Native Mr. Prospector Gold Digger Machiavellian Halo Coup de Folie Raise the Standard Streey Cry (Ire) Petingo (GB) Troy (GB) La Milo (GB) Helen Street (GB) Riverman Waterway (Fr) Boulevard (Ire) Hail to Reason Roberto Bramalea Kris S. *Princequillo Vertigineux Sharp Queen Wnr Bridgework 5Fls, 2GISW, Aristophanes (GB) Forli (Arg) 1SW For the Flag Trevisa Wnr 13Fls, 3SW, 1GSP In the Offing Hoist the Flag 9Fls, 1GSW Mrs. Peterkin.