Princess Highway reigns supreme at Royal Ascot

Although today’s G2 Ribblesdale Stakes winner Princess Highway has had only four career starts, the three-year-old daughter of Street Cry is already turning some heads. In the 2400m event at Royal Ascot, jockey P. J. Smullen was content to bide his time with the filly in midpack and then urged her to chase down the pacesetter, which she did willingly, for an impressive six-length win.

In her last start, Princess Highway’s won the G3 Blue Wind defeating the eventual Epsom Oaks winner Was and she is now being pointed towards the Irish Oaks.

Princess Highway was bred in the U.S. by Moyglare Stud who also bred her dam, the multiple G3 winner Irresistible Jewel, whose wins included the Ribblesdale Stakes as well. Irresistible Jewel is the dam of G3 winner/G1-placed Mad About You and is a half sister to Stakes winner Diamond Trim (dam of five-time champion Profound Beauty), and G3-placed Legal Jousting. Irresistible Jewel has a 2012 Street Cry filly by her side. It is interesting to note that Princess Highway is bred on the exact same cross that has resulted in one of the southern hemisphere's best performed Street Cry runners in Melbourne Cup hero Shocking.

Street Cry is the sire of 13 G1 winners, nine of which were purchased as yearlings at the major sales. He was North America’s leading sire of 2011 by yearling average. Street Cry is the sire of 59 career Stakes winners, including Horse of the Year Zenyatta, as well as Champion Street Sense, who stands along side his father at Kelvinside, while another son, the multiple G1 winner Street Boss, will stand at Northwood Park.

Street Cry will stand the forthcoming southern hemisphere breeding season at a fee of $110,000 (inc. GST), with Street Sense at $38,500 (inc. GST) and Street Boss at $11,000 (inc. GST).