New Year's Day celebrates in G1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile

Street Cry sired his second G1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner November 2 as New Year's Day posted a dramatic win at Santa Anita for owners Gary and Mary West.

The colt follows in the footsteps of Street Sense, who won the G1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile before going on to win the 2007 G1 Kentucky Derby, and becoming the only horse to complete this feat. New Year's Day will surely be pointed toward the first Saturday in May himself.

New Year's Day settled along the inside off the pace in the one-and-one-sixteenth mile race. In the stretch he slipped along the inside and kicked on in the final strides for the exciting victory. It was the second win in a row for the colt, who broke his maiden last time out at Del Mar for trainer Bob Baffert.

A $425,000 Keeneland September yearling, New Year's Day is the first foal for multiple Graded Stakes-winning mare Justwhistledixie, by Dixie Union. Justwhistledixie is a half-sister to Graded Stakes winner Chace City. The colt was bred by Clearsky Farms.

With the victory, New Year's Day becomes the 15th G1 winner for Street Cry, and joins such esteemed company as Horse Of The Year Zenyatta and multiple G1 winner Street Boss, in addition to Street Sense and numerous others. In Australia, he has most recently been represented by G1 Caulfield Guineas winner Long John. Earlier today he was the sire of another impressive two-year-old winner as his daughter Majeyda won Newmarket's Listed Montrose Fillies' Stakes in style.