Talented mare Elphinstone banked her first Black-Type victory and capped a remarkable long weekend for her US-bred sire Street Boss when she won the Listed C.S. Hayes Memorial Cup over 1,600m at Morphettville on Monday, 10 March.
A winner of two of her previous three starts in Victoria, after also winning the $500,000 VOBIS Platinum Guineas over 1,600m at Caulfield in April last year, Elphinstone travelled at the back of the field on Monday before jockey Jamie Melham eased the four-year-old wide approaching the 500m pole.
The chestnut quickly sprinted past the leaders in the home straight to beat Episodic and A Samurai Mind easing down by 1.5 lengths in 1 minute 35.3 seconds.
Bred by P. Roach and offered by Sullivan Bloodstock at the 2022 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale, Elphinstone was purchased by a syndicate that included her Ballarat co-trainers Tony and Calvin McEvoy for $200,000.
Out of the Australian mare Inflection visited Cylinder last season, Elphinstone’s record now reads five wins and seven placings from 18 starts for prize-money and bonus earnings of $801,940.
Street Boss has now sired a massive 994 winners of 2,982 races worldwide.
Tempted (G2 Reisling Stakes) and Tentyris (G2 Darley Todman Stakes) lifted their sire’s progeny tally to 158 Stakes-race victories at Royal Randwick last Saturday, before Elphinstone became the 159th.
The stallion’s 10 G1 winners include former champion Australian galloper Anamoe, who won nine races at the highest level before retiring to stand at stud with Darley.
Street Boss, whose stock have won more than A$157 million in total prize-money, has three fillies and a colt in the catalogue for the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale in Sydney from 6-7 April.
What a weekend for #StreetBoss 👇
— Darley in Australia (@DarleyAus) March 10, 2025
🥇 Tempted – G2 Reisling Stakes
🥇 Tentyris – G2 Darley Todman Stakes
And he wasn’t done yet! Just two days later, Elphinstone (#StreetBoss) becomes his latest Stakes winner, claiming the C S Hayes Memorial Cup at Morphettville. https://t.co/rBG4tYfi3d
