Street Cry put down due to neurological condition

Street Cry, one of the world's most successful stallions and a cornerstone of

Sheikh Mohammed's racing and breeding operations for the past 14 years, has been

put to sleep at the age of 16 after succumbing to complications relating to a

neurological condition.

The runaway winner of the Dubai World Cup and Stephen Foster Handicap for

Godolphin in 2002, Street Cry was retired to stand at Darley's Jonabell Farm in

Kentucky in 2003 and has been a headline stallion ever since. His first crop

included the incomparable Zenyatta and Street Sense -- still the only horse to

win both the Breeders' Cup Juvenile and the Kentucky Derby.

Street Cry has made a similar impact in Australia, siring two Caulfield

Guineas winners in Long John and Whobegotyou and Melbourne Cup winner Shocking.

In all, Street Cry has sired 15 Grade/Group 1 winners and almost 150 black type

performers worldwide to date.

His legacy as a sire of sires is already well established. Three of his young

stallion sons have sired Grade 1 winners.

"Street Cry epitomized everything that Darley and Godolphin aim to achieve --

he was bred by Sheikh Mohammed in Ireland, excelled at the very highest level on

the racecourse in Dubai and the United States, and then became the lynchpin of

our stallion operations in both America and Australia," said Sheikh Mohammed's

Bloodstock Advisor John Ferguson. "His contribution to the breed has been

significant and we have been so fortunate to have him. He will be sorely missed

by everyone."

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