Street Cry Colt to Gainesway

Gainesway’s Antony Beck struck for the second top-priced weanling during Monday’s Fasig-Tipton November sale, going to $400,000 to secure the first foal out of the Darby Dan Phillips Racing Partnership’s multiple Grade I winner Winter Memories (El Prado {Ire}). Selling as hip 65, the chestnut colt is by the late Street Cry (Ire) and was consigned by Darby Dan. 

“I thought he was a really exceptional mover,” said Beck, who did his bidding alongside Gainesway’s Brian Graves in the back walking ring. “John Phillips has developed that family really well. His dam was a really great racemare, as was his granddam. It is seldom that you get a horse of that quality come up for auction, especially one that moves as well as he does.” 

Of the price tag, Beck admitted, “It was a little bit more than I was hoping to pay. But I think he is a really special horse. He was the only one I was interested in in the whole catalogue.” 

Winter Memories is a daughter of multiple Grade I winner Memories of Silver (Silver Hawk). The family was in demand again at Fasig Monday night, with another daughter of Winter Memories, graded stakes winner La Cloche (Ghostzapper) selling for $2.4 million to Don Alberto Corporation.