If Winx was the only mark Street Cry left in Australia then it would have been sufficient to make him one of the more influential shuttle stallions to grace Australian shores, but the continued success of his progeny, as racehorses, sires and broodmares underlines his impact on an almost weekly basis.
Trekking is from the final Australian crop of Street Cry, before his untimely death due to a neurological condition at age 16 in 2014. In his nine seasons shuttling to Australia, he produced (to date) 443 winners, including 49 stakes winners, from 558 runners.
Along with Winx and Trekking, among his list of Australian-bred stars are fellow multiple Group 1 winners Shocking, Whobegotyou, Oh Susanna and Pride Of Dubai.
Off the back of Winx's heroics, he was able to secure the title as Australia's Champion Sire in 2015/16, putting him alongside Danehill (USA) as the only shuttle sire to claim that honour in the 21st century.
"It’s looking like it will be a long-term legacy," Godolphin's Head Of Sales, Alastair Pulford, said. "It’s been a few years since he passed away but still the Group 1 winners keep coming."
"It’s looking like it will be a long-term legacy." - Alastair Pulford
"He's been an amazing stallion. He could get colts or fillies. He could get sprinters and he got stayers. He had winners from Trekking as a Goodwood H. winner to Shocking who was a Melbourne Cup winner. He really was a horse for everyone."
Street Cry's Australian dominance reflects what he was able to achieve as a stallion on a global stage as well. His tally of stakes winners globally stands at 131, including 36 in the United States, where he was based at Jonabell Farm in Kentucky, and 20 in Great Britain.
The late Street Cry (Ire)
Among his overseas-bred stars were the phenomenal Zenyatta (USA) and a Kentucky Derby winner in Street Sense (USA).
Pulford said his versatility and strength as a horse came through in his progeny, which made him that rare commodity of being a star as a stallion in both hemispheres.
"We described him as a 'horse of the world'. He was born in Ireland, had a very turf-centric pedigree but was chosen by Sheikh Mohammed's team to race in America with Eoin Harty as his trainer," he said.
"We described him as a 'horse of the world'." - Alastair Pulford
"He was an elite racehorse in America on the dirt tracks and won the Dubai World Cup and the Stephen Foster H. at Grade 1 level in America. He was an amazing horse.
"With his first crop in America, he got Zenyatta and Street Sense, who proved to be two of his best horses. Street Sense was the first horse to win both the Breeders' Cup Juvenile and then the Kentucky Derby and Zenyatta was the Winx of her day.
"He was a horse who was best at a mile to a mile and a quarter. With that elite pedigree, where his father was a champion and his first three dams were all stakes winners, he managed to succeed all over the world."
Street Cry (Ire) was described as a 'horse of the world'
The history-shaping return
Pulford shared some insight on a decision to bring Street Cry back to Australia after a two-year-break in 2009, which was to prove a crucial juncture in Australian thoroughbred history.
"He had rocketed up the sires' rankings in America off that very good first crop, but his first crop here was a bit disappointing," he said.
"At that stage, the risk of bringing him here wasn't worth the reward and the equine influenza outbreak happened and that saw him miss those couple of years.
"When we noticed Whobegotyou and Shocking come on the scene as 3-year-olds, we put a case forward to John Ferguson, and Sheikh Mohammed's advisory team, that he should come back based on the fact that the stats looked very promising.
"The rest is history because without that there is no Winx and Australian racing is very different."
The immortal Winx
The next generation continues the legacy
While the influence of his progeny on the racetrack will likely diminish now, they continue to make an indelible mark on the Australian breeding scene.
There are currently six sons of Street Cry at stud in Australia, including his own Grade 1-winning son Street Boss (USA), who has spent 10 seasons at Darley's Northwood Park in Victoria and most recently sired star 2-year-old Hanseatic.
Another sire son includes the young stallion likely to be crowned Australia's Champion First Season Sire, Pride Of Dubai. Based at Coolmore, he holds a near-$280,000 lead over his nearest rival in the race to be crowned Australia's leading freshman sire.
He is one of four sons of Street Cry to have had a stakes winner in Australia this year, the others being Carlton House (USA), Shocking and Street Boss. Hallowed Crown, a son of Street Sense and a grandson of Street Cry, also celebrated his first Group 1 winner this season.
Sire son Pride Of Dubai is looking likely to be crowned Australia's Champion First Season Sire for the 2019/20 season
But it is not just his sons who have been making an impact. Street Cry has had 62 winners in Australia as a broodmare sire this season, including two Group 1 winners.
G1 Golden Slipper S., winner Farnan (Not A Single Doubt) is out of Street Cry mare Tallow, while dual Group 1-winning USA-bred mare Con Te Partiro (USA) (Scat Daddy {USA}), is also out of one of his daughters.
Other Group 1 winners in Australia from Street Cry mares include Blue Diamond S. winner Lyre (Lonhro), who was third in The Goodwood behind Trekking on Saturday, and G1 Kingston Town Classic winner Pounamu (Authorized {Ire}).
"Good stallions generally make good broodmare stallions and I'd say we will see his name in pedigrees for years and years to come," Pulford said.
Adding further to that legacy is the announcement last week by Spendthrift Australia that 2019 G1 Breeders' Cup Classic winner Vino Rosso (USA), a son of Curlin (USA) out of a Street Cry mare in Mythical Bride (USA), would shuttle to Australia this season.
