Can sire of female icons Winx and Zenyatta build two-way Street with his sons?

Street Cry a fine broodmare sire and Street Sense shaping to follow suit

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 28: Hugh Bowman throws his helmet into the crowd on returning to scale after winning on Winx to win race 9 the Ladbrokes Cox Plate during Cox Plate Day at Moonee Valley Racecourse on October 28, 2017 in Melbourne, Australia

Winx has become the Australian equivalent of Zenyatta for their sireCredit: Michael Dodge (Getty Images)

The legacy of Street Cry was already assured when he died aged 16 in 2014. In Zenyatta, he had supplied American racing with a true icon, a filly whose record remained unblemished only until Blame's nose denied her of a fairytale swansong in the Breeders' Cup Classic of 2010.

Then there was Street Sense, who secured his own piece of history when becoming the first horse to pull off the Breeders' Cup Juvenile-Kentucky Derby double; Street Boss, a brilliantly fast sprinter during the American era of artificial surfaces; European Group 1 winners Lyric Of Light and Majestic Roi; and even a Melbourne Cup hero in Shocking, sired during the stallion's second shuttle trip to Australia.

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Nancy SextonRacing Post Reporter

Published on 1 November 2017inInternational

Last updated 09:44, 22 November 2017

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