It is not only in America that the Street Cry is churning out high-class winners, and on Saturday his three-year-old son Whobegotyou confirmed himself the best of his age in Australia by taking out the G1 Caulfield Guineas. This time-honoured mile Classic, won in the past by such great horses as Tulloch, Vain, Luskin Star, Redoute’s Choice, Lonhro and reigning Horse Of The Year Weekend Hussler, is the race which generally identifies the best miler of each generation, and Whobegotyou can now be regarded as just that following his emphatic three-and-a-quarter length victory over a top-class field.
A son of the Carnegie mare Temple Of Peace, Whobegotyou was a bargain at only A$19,500 as a yearling, and had already repaid his connections many times over even before this latest big win on Saturday, with a Stakes win to his name in one of the best Caulfield Guineas lead-up races, the G2 Bill Stutt Stakes at Moonee Valley. He now ranks as one of eight individual G1 winners sired by Street Cry, a phenomenal figure for a stallion whose oldest offspring are still only four-year-olds. The first of these was, of course, Breeders’ Cup Juvenile and Kentucky Derby hero Street Sense, who now stands alongside his sire at Jonabell Farm.
