Pedigree Analysis for McKinzie

By Alan Porter

A graded winner at two, three, four and five, and a G1 winner in three straight seasons, McKinzie is the outstanding son of Champion Two-Year-Old and Kentucky Derby victor, Street Sense, out of a mare who was a multiple graded stakes winning juvenile.

Street Sense has seven stakes winners out of A.P. Indy mares, three graded. He’s also done well with mares by A.P. Indy line stallions, including Bernardini – broodmare sire of his G1 winner Maxfield – and the similarly-bred Tapit (by Pulpit), the broodmare sire of a Street Sense graded stakes winner. This also suggests mares by other sons of A.P. Indy, such as Malibu Moon, Flatter, Mineshaft and Congrats. From the same Seattle Slew line as A.P. Indy, Street Sense sired G1 winner Aubby K out of a mare by Capote (sire of Boston Harbor and Matty G).

There are 11 stakes winners by Street Sense out of mares by Storm Cat and sons, including G1 winner Street Fancy out of a mare by Cat Thief, two graded stakes winners, including G1 winner Callback out of mares by Forest Wildcat (sire of Wildcat Heir and D’Wildcat), graded stakes winner Tiger Moth out of a mare by Sir Cat, and stakes winners out of mares by Stormin Fever, Stormy Atlantic, Forestry (sire of Shackleford and Discreet Cat), Easing Along and Giant’s Causeway (sire of Eskendereya, Creative Cause and First Samurai). This also suggests trying mares by other Storm Cat line stallions such as Freud (a brother to Giant’s Causeway), Tale of the Cat (sire of Lion Heart), Bluegrass Cat, Storm Boot, Tabasco Cat, Pure Prize, Yankee Gentleman, from the Hennessy branch, Henny Hughes, and Johannesburg and his son, Scat Daddy, and from the Harlan branch, Harlan’s Holiday, Into Mischief and Majesticperfection.

Another 11 stakes winners have come from the cross of Street Sense out of Danzig line mares. This includes a pair of G1 winners out of mares by Danehill and a son, and a graded winner out of a mare by the Danehill horse, Danehill Dancer, who is from the immediate family of Street Sense. There is a pair of graded stakes winners out of a mare by Danzig Connection, a graded stakes winner out of a mare by Cape Cross (by Green Desert, also sire of Oasis Dream and Invincible Spirit), as well as stakes winners out of daughters of War Front, Boundary (sire of Big Brown) and Bianconi. This suggests also trying mares by Hard Spun, Langfuhr, Belong to Me, Anabaa and Exchange Rate.

The cross of Street Sense with Sadler’s Wells line mares has resulted in seven stakes winners, including graded scorers from daughters of Singspiel and Horse Chestnut, and stakes winners out of mares by Medaglia d’Oro and his sire, El Prado (also sire of Kitten’s Joy and Artie Schiller) and Galileo.