Whobegotyou
October 12th 2008 02:10
Street Cry - that's who.
Darley Australia have a diverse and strong stallion roster for the 2008 breeding season. Their stallions shuttle between Northern and Southern hemispheres and make an impact on a global scale.
Yesterday at Caulfield the flag-bearer Sire Exceed And Excel had a triumph in the Group Two Schillaci Stakes when talented (and inexperienced) 3 year old colt Wilander produced a great performance to run down the highly talented sprinter Lucky Secret in the shadows of the post.
But it was a slightly more unheralded Darley stallion - who no longer shuttles to Australia - that stole the show on Caulfield Guineas day. The feature of the Group One Caulfield Guineas was won by the Mark Kavanagh trained gelding Whobegotyou. Street Cry shuttled to Australia for four seasons and had his share of critics. His stud fee a modest $38,500 dropped to (an even more modest) $16,500 in subsequent years. It appeared at first his impact only moderate in Australia with Sarthemare a Listed Black Opal winner his early flag bearer. Although horses such as the promising (now deceased) Aceland Street suggested that much more was possible in the future.
Street Cry was the Champion First Season Sire in North America in 2006. Darley are shuttling the outstanding US son of Street Cry - the Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense - to Australia to stand at $55,000 this year. The exploits of the stock of Street Cry are announced and booming in the US where he commands a stud fee of $US100,000. And now in Australia the whisper becomes a roar. Whobegotyou? Street Cry!
Whobegotyou is the eighth individual Group One winner for his sire Street Cry - and with his eldest crop only four year olds it would appear that this list can only grow.
Whobegotyou was a (now) ridiculously cheap buy at just $19,500 at the 2007 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale in Sydney. His victory yesterday as devastating a performance as you will witness in Group racing anywhere in the world. I have been raving about this horse since he burst onto the scene with exceptional Speedfigures in a minor Moonee Valley race. His explosive Bill Stutt Stakes (Group Two) victory at his previous start was no surprise - but it is the manner of his last two victories that are portentous of his future. At Moonee Valley he was at the tail of the field on a night when the track had a definite bias to leaders - yet he circled the field and won easing down. Contemptuous.
In the Caulfield Guineas from his wide barrier draw he sat back in the field - deep but with cover - giving once again a big start. And just as he had at Moonee Valley, he accelerated through his gears to a top gear and speed that no other horse could withstand or match. Although the margin was only three-quarters of a length on the line - the win had a far greater magnitude.
The Caulfield Guineas is a race (unlike the VRC Derby) that makes stallions. The son of Street Cry was gelded when he began to crest and give the appearance of being too big to be successful as a racehorse. He defeated in the Guineas two colts with exquisite breeding that would have made careers on such a victory: second placed blue blood Time Thief (Redoute’s Choice); and third placed Von Costa De Hero (Encosta De Lago).
Some stallions are sleepers - with crops that are not precocious and may take time. There is more than a touch of the Montjeu phenomenon in Street Cry.
His jockey Michael Rodd (who won a Melbourne Cup on Efficient) rates Whobegotyou as the best horse he has ridden. And he cites him as being similar to the US champion Big Brown. The thoroughbred rankings at the end of this season will be very interesting. Whobegotyou has emerged as a horse of the highest calibre.
Whobegotyou
Darley Australia have a diverse and strong stallion roster for the 2008 breeding season. Their stallions shuttle between Northern and Southern hemispheres and make an impact on a global scale.
Yesterday at Caulfield the flag-bearer Sire Exceed And Excel had a triumph in the Group Two Schillaci Stakes when talented (and inexperienced) 3 year old colt Wilander produced a great performance to run down the highly talented sprinter Lucky Secret in the shadows of the post.
But it was a slightly more unheralded Darley stallion - who no longer shuttles to Australia - that stole the show on Caulfield Guineas day. The feature of the Group One Caulfield Guineas was won by the Mark Kavanagh trained gelding Whobegotyou. Street Cry shuttled to Australia for four seasons and had his share of critics. His stud fee a modest $38,500 dropped to (an even more modest) $16,500 in subsequent years. It appeared at first his impact only moderate in Australia with Sarthemare a Listed Black Opal winner his early flag bearer. Although horses such as the promising (now deceased) Aceland Street suggested that much more was possible in the future.
Street Cry was the Champion First Season Sire in North America in 2006. Darley are shuttling the outstanding US son of Street Cry - the Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense - to Australia to stand at $55,000 this year. The exploits of the stock of Street Cry are announced and booming in the US where he commands a stud fee of $US100,000. And now in Australia the whisper becomes a roar. Whobegotyou? Street Cry!
Whobegotyou is the eighth individual Group One winner for his sire Street Cry - and with his eldest crop only four year olds it would appear that this list can only grow.
Whobegotyou was a (now) ridiculously cheap buy at just $19,500 at the 2007 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale in Sydney. His victory yesterday as devastating a performance as you will witness in Group racing anywhere in the world. I have been raving about this horse since he burst onto the scene with exceptional Speedfigures in a minor Moonee Valley race. His explosive Bill Stutt Stakes (Group Two) victory at his previous start was no surprise - but it is the manner of his last two victories that are portentous of his future. At Moonee Valley he was at the tail of the field on a night when the track had a definite bias to leaders - yet he circled the field and won easing down. Contemptuous.
In the Caulfield Guineas from his wide barrier draw he sat back in the field - deep but with cover - giving once again a big start. And just as he had at Moonee Valley, he accelerated through his gears to a top gear and speed that no other horse could withstand or match. Although the margin was only three-quarters of a length on the line - the win had a far greater magnitude.
The Caulfield Guineas is a race (unlike the VRC Derby) that makes stallions. The son of Street Cry was gelded when he began to crest and give the appearance of being too big to be successful as a racehorse. He defeated in the Guineas two colts with exquisite breeding that would have made careers on such a victory: second placed blue blood Time Thief (Redoute’s Choice); and third placed Von Costa De Hero (Encosta De Lago).
Some stallions are sleepers - with crops that are not precocious and may take time. There is more than a touch of the Montjeu phenomenon in Street Cry.
His jockey Michael Rodd (who won a Melbourne Cup on Efficient) rates Whobegotyou as the best horse he has ridden. And he cites him as being similar to the US champion Big Brown. The thoroughbred rankings at the end of this season will be very interesting. Whobegotyou has emerged as a horse of the highest calibre.
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