Thatcher Street made a three-wide move around the turn and fought gamely through the stretch to take the G3 River City Handicap by a half-length at Churchill Downs on November 24.
It was the first Graded Stakes victory for the five-year-old gelding by Street Sense, who previously won the Opening Verse Stakes at Churchill Downs earlier this year.
Bred in Kentucky by Randy Bloch et al, Thatcher Street is out of Lenawee, a winning daughter of Albert the Great. Lenawee is a half-sister to Kettle Hill, winner of the Prairie Bayou Stakes, and to Graded Stakes-placed Plainview.
Street Sense is the sire of 47 Stakes winners, including such top performers as Callback, winner of the G1 Las Virgenes; Wedding Toast, winner of the G1 Ogden Phipps and G1 Beldame; and Street Fancy, winner of the G1 Starlet Stakes.
Street Sense will stand the 2017 season at Jonabell Farm for a fee of $45,000, stands and nurses.
