Street Sense (horse)
| Street Sense | |
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| Sire | Street Cry |
| Grandsire | Machiavellian |
| Dam | Bedazzle |
| Damsire | Dixieland Band |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 2004 |
| Country | United States |
| Colour | Dark Bay |
| Breeder | James B. Tafel |
| Owner | James B. Tafel Darley Stud (June 2, 2007) |
| Trainer | Carl Nafzger |
| Record | 13: 6-4-2 |
| Earnings | $4,383,200 |
| Major wins | |
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Tampa Bay Derby (2007) Breeders' Cup Juvenile (2006) Kentucky Derby (2007) Preakness Stakes 2nd (2007) |
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| Awards | |
| U.S. Champion 2-Yr-Old Colt (2006) | |
| Horse (Equus ferus caballus) | |
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Last updated on August 25, 2007 |
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Street Sense (foaled February 23, 2004 in Kentucky at Chesapeake Farm) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse, U.S. Champion 2-Yr-Old Colt (2006) and winner of the 2007 Kentucky Derby and the 2007 Travers Stakes. He was also the runner up in the 2007 Preakness Stakes by a head. Owned and bred by James B. Tafel, Street Sense is out of Bedazzle, a granddaughter of Northern Dancer, and his sire is 2002 Dubai World Cup winner Street Cry.
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Two year-old season [edit]
Trained by Carl Nafzger and ridden by Calvin Borel, Street Sense broke his maiden at Arlington Park. He then finished third in the Arlington-Washington Futurity Stakes and third in the Lane's End Breeders' Futurity behind Great Hunter and Circular Quay.
On November 4, 2006, Street Sense won the most important race for 2-year-old colts in the United States, the Breeders' Cup Juvenile, by a record 10 lengths. He was voted the 2006 Eclipse Award as the U.S. Champion 2-Yr-Old Colt.
Three-year-old season [edit]
Street Sense wintered at the Palm Meadows Thoroughbred Training Center in Florida. In 2007, he followed the trail to the U.S. Triple Crown series. On March 17, in his first race as a three-year-old, he won the Tampa Bay Derby by half a nose over Any Given Saturday in a track-record-breaking time for the one and one sixteenth mile distance.
Street Sense was beaten by Dominican (11th in the 2007 Kentucky Derby having broken from post 19) in his last start before the Derby, in a photo finish. The slow pace of the race meant that most of the field had something left toward the finish - the first 5 horses home were separated by only a few lengths at the wire.
Street Sense won the Kentucky Derby on May 5, 2007, paying $11.80 to win on a $2 wager. He rallied from a second-to-last deficit to beat Hard Spun by 21⁄2 lengths. This victory made him the first winner of the Breeders' Cup Juvenile ever to win the Kentucky Derby and the first U.S. Champion 2-Yr-Old Colt to win the Derby since Spectacular Bid in 1979.
Street Sense went into the second jewel of the Triple Crown as the favorite but finished second by a nose to eventual two-time Horse of the year Curlin in the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course on May 19, 2007. The nine-horse field included Derby runner-ups Hard Spun and Curlin, sixth-place finisher Circular Quay, and Mint Slewlep, Xchanger, King of the Roxy, Flying First Class, and C P West.
Owner James Tafel decided not to run Street Sense in the Belmont Stakes, looking to regroup for major races later in the year. On August 25, 2007, ridden by Calvin Borel, Street Sense won the Grade I $1 Million Travers Stakes, at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York. He was the first horse to win both the Travers and Kentucky Derby since Thunder Gulch did it in 1995.
On September 29, he placed second in the 11⁄8 mile Grade II Kentucky Cup Classic Stakes on Polytrack at Turfway Park behind Hard Spun. In his racing career, he was 0 for 3 on Polytrack.
Street Sense closed out his career with a fourth-place finish on a sloppy track in the October 27, 2007. running of the Breeders' Cup Classic at Monmouth Park Racetrack. He retired to stud duty with earnings of $4,383,200.
Retirement [edit]
On June 2, 2007, Tafel sold Street Sense's breeding rights to Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum's Darley Stud. The colt continued to be trained by Carl Nafzger and raced under Tafel's name through the 2007 Breeders' Cup Classic. His retirement was announced on October 30, 2007. He now stands at Darley's Jonabell Farm near Lexington, Ky. His stud fee in 2008 was $75,000, but was reduced to $40,000 per live foal for 2011.[1]
His first crop of foals (2009) began racing as 2-year-olds in 2011.
Races [edit]
| Finish | Race | Distance | Track | Date |
| 4th | Breeders' Cup Classic | One and One-Quarter Miles | Monmouth Park | October 27, 2007 |
| 2nd | Kentucky Cup Classic Stakes | One and One-Eighth Miles | Turfway Park | September 29, 2007 |
| 1st | Travers Stakes | One and One-Quarter Miles | Saratoga | August 25, 2007 |
| 1st | Jim Dandy Stakes | One and One-Eighth Miles | Saratoga | July 29, 2007 |
| 2nd | Preakness Stakes | One and Three-Sixteenths Miles | Pimlico Race Course | May 19, 2007 |
| 1st | Kentucky Derby | One and One-Quarter Miles | Churchill Downs | May 5, 2007 |
| 2nd | Blue Grass Stakes | One and One-Eighth Miles | Keeneland Race Course | April 14, 2007 |
| 1st | Tampa Bay Derby | One and One-Sixteenth Miles | Tampa Bay Downs | March 17, 2007 |
| 1st | Breeders' Cup Juvenile | One and One-Sixteenth Miles | Churchill Downs | November 4, 2006 |
| 3rd | Lane's End Breeders' Futurity | One and One-Sixteenth Miles | Keeneland Race Course | October 7, 2006 |
| 3rd | Arlington Park | One Mile | Arlington-Washington Breeders' Cup Futurity | September 10, 2006 |
| 1st | Maiden Special Weight | Six and One-Half Furlongs | Arlington Park | August 19, 2006 |
| 2nd | Maiden Special Weight | Six Furlongs | Churchill Downs | July 9, 2006 |
Breeding [edit]
| Sire Street Cry (IRE) |
Machiavellian | Mr. Prospector | Raise a Native |
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| Gold Digger | |||
| Coup de Folie | Halo | ||
| Raise the Standard | |||
| Helen Street | Troy | Petingo | |
| La Milo | |||
| Waterway | Riverman | ||
| Boulevard | |||
| Dam Bedazzle |
Dixieland Band | Northern Dancer | Nearctic |
| Natalma | |||
| Mississippi Mud | Delta Judge | ||
| Sand Buggy | |||
| Majestic Legend | His Majesty | Ribot | |
| Flower Bowl | |||
| Long Legend | Reviewer | ||
| Lianga |
References [edit]
- ^ "Street Sense". Stallion Register Online. Bloodhorse.
