Exciting three-year-old colt Traffic Warden returned to racing in brilliant fashion at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday, 14 September to give his sire Street Boss his third feature race winner in a fortnight.
Pinstriped (out of Snitzel Blitz by Snitzel) took out the G1 Memsie Stakes (1,400m) at Caulfield on 31 August, providing his trainer Enver Jusufovic with a maiden G1 victory.
Vitality (Belissimo by Awesome Again) won the Listed Prince Of Wales Stakes (1,900m) at Fort Erie and Traffic Warden scorched down the centre of the home straight at Rosehill to win the G2 Run to the Rose over 1,200m to round out a wonderful few weeks for the sire-son of Street Cry.
Despite racing a little greenly over the final 300m for jockey Zac Lloyd, Traffic Warden proved too strong for Anode to win by a short-head with Storm Boy a half-length away in third place.
A winner of the G2 VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes over 1,400m at Flemington in March, Traffic Warden was an unlucky fourth in the G1 Golden Slipper and was then just beaten a nose by Manaal in the G1 ATC Sires’ Produce Stakes (1,400m) before spelling.
Traffic Warden stopped the clock on 1 minute 9.44 seconds in Saturday's G2 Run to the Rose and joined an elite lineup of race winners including Darley stallions Cylinder (2023), Anamoe (2021), Bivouac (2019) and Astern (2016), to take his record to three wins and three placings from eight starts under Godolphin Australia head trainer James Cummings.
Traffic Warden, out of the Exceed And Excel mare Efficiently, has a yearling full brother to come and is now on track to tackle the G1 Golden Rose over 1,400m at Rosehill on 28 September.
Street Boss has now sired 955 winners of 2,827 races worldwide – including 73 individual Stakes-race winners of 146 Black-Type events.
With his first book of mares from his two-year stint at Kelvinside in the Hunter Valley just-turned two-year-olds, Street Boss' racetrack momentum is certain to continue.
Street Boss stands at Darley’s Northwood Park stallion farm near Seymour in Victoria for a service fee of $66,000, GST inclusive.
💥 Like a BOSS!!
— Darley in Australia (@DarleyAus) September 14, 2024
Traffic Warden (#StreetBoss) makes a powerful statement first-up in the G2 Run to the Rose.
👉 #Anamoe (#StreetBoss) won this race in 2021! #Darleystallions https://t.co/PnyIbjksRq
🤩 Traffic Warden, out of Efficiently (#ExceedAndExcel).
— Darley in Australia (@DarleyAus) September 14, 2024
🔹 By #StreetBoss who stands at Northwood Park in 2024 https://t.co/fiKKNzUUfQ https://t.co/zqKc6nrrlf
