Trainer Mark Kavangh has an affinity with the Street Cry breed in Australia and it that was never more evident than on 11 June at Flemington when Kavangh trained a Street Cry double including the Stakes victory of three-year-old colt Liveandletdie.
One of the favored runners in the large field, jockey Damien Oliver had the colt settled just off the pace in the straight course event.
As the whips were cracking at the 200m mark, Liveandletdie ducked towards the inside of the track and held off the late challenge of Spurciffic to record a head victory in the Listed A.R. Creswick Stakes.
The trainer of Street Cry’s southern hemisphere G1 winners in Shocking and Whobegotyou, Kavanagh was also represented earlier in the day by three-year-old filly Midnight Martini who will now head to the spelling paddock after three consecutive, and impressive wins.
Bred by Think Big Stud, Liveandletdie is the second and final foal from the Great Commotion mare Janella, herself a full-sister to Italian Champion two-year-old colt Lend A Hand. From the family of Stakes winners Triple First, Three Tails, Sea Wave, Tamure, Maysoon and Dubawi Gold, Liveandletdie is another of the Street Cry breed that is raced by Laurence and Prue Eales.
Street Cry, who stands for $150,000 Stands and Nurses, has now sired 31 individual Group winners worldwide including 12 at the highest level. Already in 2011 he has sired Shocking and Whobegotyou in Australia, both last time out Group winners, the South African G3 winner Hollywoodboulevard, the Dubai classic winner Splash Point and the G2-winning, G1 Epsom Derby placegetter Carlton House.
