Street Cry Ailing, May Not Breed Southern Hemisphere Time

Street Cry (Ire) (Machiavellian–Helen Street {GB}, by Troy {GB}) is suffering from an unidentified neurological ailment that prevents him from standing for long periods of time and is unlikely to complete his Southern Hemisphere breeding engagements racingnetwork.com.au reported Friday. The 16-year-old G1 Dubai World Cup winner–responsible for champions GI Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Zenyatta and GI Kentucky Derby hero Street Sense–is lame in his right foreleg and all owners of booked mares have been alerted that they should make other arrangements. 

“It’s an ongoing lamenss issue that has been really troubling the horse for a couple of weeks now,” Darley Australian Managing Director Henry Plumptre told racingnetwork.com.au. “It’s not an obvious problem, more of a nerve issue. It’s not like a fracture or an abscess that can be easily diagnosed, and it’s not in an area that we can MRI. We’re just throwing treatments at him at the moment and looking for improvement.” 

The stallion’s condition is currently not life threatening, and he remains at Darley’s Australian base at Kelvinside, New South Wales, but Plumtre remained cautious. 

“He was marginally better this week, but had a slight relapse this morning,” Plumtre added. “We’re doing everything we can to get him over the hump and back to good health.” 

Street Cry has sired the earners of over $49 million, including Australian Group 1 winners Shocking (Aus), Whobegotyou (Aus), and Long John (Aus). He stood for $100,000 at Darley America for the 2014 Northern Hemisphere breeding season and was slated to stand for A$110,000 for the Southern Hemisphere breeding season.