With only his third crop only three-year-olds of 2009, it’s become very clear that Street Cry is a truly exceptional sire. From runners conceived at an advertised fee of $30,000, he’s been represented by 20 Northern Hemisphere stakes winners, seven of them group or grade one (including U.S. Champions Street Sense and Zenyatta). He has group or grade one winners on dirt, turf and all-weather, and his runners have taken major races from six furlongs to 1¼ miles, and scored at the highest level at two, three and four.

Street Cry stepped back into the the limelight today in Dubai, when his son, Desert Party won the UAE 2,000 Guineas by nearly five lengths from a field that included Vineyard Haven (who had been behind Desert Party when that horse took the Sanford Stakes (gr. II), but who had subsequently taken the Hopeful Stakes (gr. I) and Champagne Stakes (gr. I) and Argentine grade one performer Blues and Rock.

Out the Tabasco Cat mare, Sage Cat, and rated A by TrueNicks, Desert Party is the second stakes winner by Street Cry out of a mare from the Storm Bird line, as he also sired last year’s Norfolk Stakes (gr. I) hero Street Hero (now standing at Vinery), out of a mare by Summer Squall (bred on the same cross as Desert Party’s grandsire, Storm Cat).

And I’ll cry if I want to…..for a moment, just before Frankie Dettori unleashed Desert Party and crushed our hopes, we thought the race was going to go to Regal Ransom, who had battled his way past game front-runner Redding Colliery (by Minseshaft). Regal Ransom (Distorted Humor -- Kelli’s Ransom by Red Ransom), who took second, while giving the impression that a mile is absolutely as far as he wants to go, comes from mating we recommend to Diamond A Racing. A $675,000 Two-Year-Old in Training Sales horse, Regal Ransom won on his debut, then finished off the board in Street Hero’s Norfolk Stakes (gr. I). On his only other start, he separated Desert Party and Redding Colliery in the seven furlong Guineas prep (beaten ½ length). Regal Ransom is a May 26 foal, so there is every chance that he will make more than normal improvement, and we look for him to win a nice race somewhere down the road.

Here is a replay of the race

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