Street Sense has two top contenders

Street Sense won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile in 2006 and then went on to become the first winner of that race to take the following year’s Kentucky Derby. This week in the Breeders’ Cup, his son Maxfield will try to put himself on the road to the Juvenile-Derby double, and his McKinzie will try to do something Street Sense couldn’t.

Maxfield comes in to Friday’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile off a victory in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Futurity at Keeneland, a race Street Sense finished third in before going on to take the Juvenile. The following day, McKinzie will be among the favorites in the Breeders’ Cup Classic, a race Street Sense finished fourth in in 2007, the only unplaced effort of his career.

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Street Sense, a son of Godolphin’s homebred champion Street Cry, retired to Godolphin’s Darley in Kentucky for the 2008 season. McKinzie is among the top earners for the stallion, who also is the sire of U.S. Grade 1 winners Aubby K, Callback, Sweet Reason, and Wedding Toast. McKinzie has not been worse than second in six starts this year and became a four-time Grade 1 winner with his triumph in the Whitney at Saratoga.

Street Sense “stands to have a big weekend, for sure,” said Jimmy Bell, president of Godolphin’s U.S. operations. “It’s just a reflection of, he’s really a quality sire, a top-tier sire. The demand would support that, as well. It’s great to have a horse of his accomplishments on the track [passing that] along to the Maxfields and McKinzies of the world, as well.”

Maxfield, who races as a homebred for Godolphin, won both his starts.

“This colt would really give you the sense of a physical replication of his daddy,” Bell said. “Plenty of bone to him, great size, a very athletic individual.”

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