Andrew Caulfield, November 7, 2006–Street Sense P EDIGREE INSIGHTS BY ANDREW CAULFIELD BESSEMER TRUST BREEDERS' CUP JUVENILE-GI, $1,832,000, CDX, 11-4, 2yo, c/g, 1 1/16m, 1:42 2/5, ft. 1--#@sSTREET SENSE, 122, c, 2, by Street Cry (Ire) 1st Dam: Bedazzle, by Dixieland Band 2nd Dam: Majestic Legend, by His Majesty 3rd Dam: Long Legend, by Reviewer O/B-James Tafel (KY); T-Carl A Nafzger; J-Calvin H Borel; $1,080,000. Lifetime Record: 5-2-1-2, $1,178,200. *First GISW for freshman sire (by Machiavellian). Click for the brisnet.com chart or the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Taylor Made. Breeders= Cup Day certainly didn=t go as well as Sheikh Mohammed no doubt hoped, what with Bernardini=s defeat and the disappointing efforts of Echo of Light and Librettist (and of his son=s Henny Hughes). But it certainly wasn=t all bad news for the Maktoum family. The Darley stallion team had a splendid time, with the Juvenile success of Street Cry=s son Street Sense soon being followed by the second Filly & Mare triumph by Ouija Board, a magnificent daughter of Cape Cross. Then there was Invasor= Classic triumph for Sheikh Hamdan, and the Juvenile Fillies success of Dreaming of Anna, whose sire, Rahy, is part-owned by Gainsborough Farm. Street Sense=s unexpected victory must have been particularly satisfying--and the ease of his victory must have revived pleasant memories of Street Cry=s decisive 2002 victories in the Dubai World Cup and Stephen Foster H. Street Cry has now moved ahead of Johannesburg to lead the first-crop sires= table. He has certainly made a pleasing start, as he has also enjoyed group success with Big Timer in England and stakes success with Sweep=s Cry in Canada. Street Cry, of course, also contested the Breeders= Cup Juvenile, when he ran on to finish a creditable third behind Macho Uno and Point Given. His narrow defeats at the hands of Flame Thrower in the Del Mar Futurity and the Norfolk S. also represented high-class form, and he ended the year ranked fifth among the males on the Experimental Free Handicap. Street Cry had every right to be a highly effective juvenile, as his sire Machiavellian had officially been rated the best European juvenile of 1989 by a margin of five pounds. And while his dam Helen Street will be best remembered for her win in the Irish Oaks, she too had been one of the leaders of her generation, in a truly remarkable vintage. To be precise, Helen Street ranked joint-third among the juvenile fillies of 1984, four pounds below the extraordinary Triptych and three pounds below the unbeaten Park Appeal (now best known as the dam of Cape Cross). www.coolmore.com She was also rated the equal of Seven Springs, a dual Oddly, none of these races, which range from five Group 1 winner who became the dam of Distant View. furlongs to a mile, was then classed as a Group 1 One pound below Helen Street came Oh So Sharp, who event, but they are now. In winning all four in a single went on to complete a classic treble at three, and Helen season Lianga showed not only unusual ability, but also Street was rated two pounds superior to Al Bahathri rare versatility and toughness. Timeform=s tribute to her and Coup de Folie. Al Bahathri went on to win the Irish was that she Abattled her races out most genuinely and 1000 Guineas and to produce the Classic-winning was in every respect an exceptional filly.@ Haafhd, while Coup de Folie became the dam of none Unfortunately, Lianga proved an excellent example of other than Machiavellian and another champion a top-notch racemare failing to pass on her talent to her two-year-old in Coup de Genie. immediate offspring. From nine foals, she came up with Machiavellian ranked among the highest-priced only one stakes winner, in the French Provinces. But as stallions in Britain by the time he succumbed to often happens in these instances, some of Lianga=s laminitis at the age of 17 during the 2004 covering daughters have made ample amends. Her Caro filly season (leaving a last crop of around 18 foals to race Lettre d=Amour produced the Listed winner next year). Swordsmith, plus the dam of Danehill Dancer, and her Although some would claim that Machiavellian should Seattle Slew filly Lacune produced the smart Italian colt have achieved even more than he did, given the Glen Jordan (sire of this year=s Woodbine Mile winner opportunities he received, the signs are that he has left Becrux). an important legacy. Street Sense=s third dam is Lianga=s Reviewer filly The third generation of Machiavellian=s pedigree Long Legend, who produced Mr. Greeley and the featured those famous half-sisters Cosmah and stakes-winning Majestic Legend. This tough daughter of Natalma, so he wasn=t unlike the great Danehill, with His Majesty won on dirt and turf, but turf was her his two lines of Natalma in the third generation. preferred surface, judging by her victory in a $100,000 Danehill is proving an excellent sire of sires, with stakes race over 1 1/8 miles at Fair Grounds. such as Redoute=s Choice, Danehill Dancer and Dansili Although Majestic Legend=s only stakes winner, the to his credit, and Machiavellian also appears to have a miler Binalegend, was by the comparatively unfamiliar lot to offer in this area. Binalong, she visited some very good stallions, such as Several of his older sons, including Vettori, Unbridled, Gone West and Dixieland Band, and it was Almutawakel and Titus Livius, sired good winners at the last-named who sired Street Sense=s dam, the comparatively modest fees, and Machiavellian finally successful sprinter Bedazzle. made a major breakthrough with his son Medicean. This Dixieland Band also sired the dams of First Samurai, Cheveley Park stallion has five group winners among who finished third as favorite for last year=s Juvenile, his first 143 foals, including the Group 1 winners and of Cotton Blossom, third in the Juvenile Fillies. The Nannina, Almerita and Dutch Art, and his fee continues question now is whether Street Sense can follow to climb, to ,30,000 in 2007. One fascinating aspect Monarchos as the second colt out of a Dixieland Band of Medicean=s success is that a measure of it has come mare to win the Kentucky Derby. If he can reproduce with daughters of Danehill. the form he showed at Churchill Downs, he must have Danehill=s name also features in connection with a great chance of ending the Juvenile/Kentucky Derby Street Sense=s female line, which traces to Lianga, a hoodoo. Dancer=s Image mare who ranks as one of my all-time favorites. Until Street Sense came along, Lianga=s best Street Sense, c, 2004 descendant had been Danehill Dancer, a great-grandson Raise a Native Mr. Prospector who ranked among the top two-year-olds of 1995, Gold Digger Machiavellian thanks to his Group 1 victories in the Phoenix and Halo Coup de Folie National S. Danehill Dancer has been doing so well as a Raise the Standard Street Cry (Ire) stallion that his fee has now been raised from i75,000 Petingo (GB) Troy (GB) to i115,000. La Milo (GB) Helen Street (GB) Lianga=s grandson Mr. Greeley is also on the Riverman Waterway (Fr) up-and-up, with his daughter Finsceal Beo likely to be Boulevard (Ire) named this year=s champion juvenile filly in Europe. Nearctic Northern Dancer Mr. Greeley=s fee is also on the rise, to $60,000 for Natalma Dixieland Band 2007. Delta Judge Bedazzle Mississippi Mud Lianga first earned my admiration as a two-year-old in 22-4-4-3, Sandy Buggy 1973, when she won her first four starts, including the $197,455 *Ribot Majestic Legend His Majesty Prix Robert Papin, a 52-furlong contest which at that 3Fls, 1Str, 1GSW SW, 42-7-7-1, Flower Bowl time carried Group 1 status. However, it was as a 13Fls, 8wnrs, 1SW Long Legend Reviewer four-year-old that she developed into a true star, with a 16Fls, 1GSW, 1SW Lianga Timeform rating of 133 (an extremely high figure for a filly or mare). In a 10-race campaign, she defeated the males in the July Cup, Prix Jacques le Marois, Vernons Sprint Cup and Prix de l=Abbaye. .