Grade 1 winner Street Band retired; to sell at Fasig-Tipton

The connections of Grade 1 winner Street Band have announced her retirement from racing. She will be catalogued at the 2020 Fasig-Tipton November Sale. Racing in partnership for Ray Francis, Cindy Jones, J. Larry Jones, Medallion Racing, and MyRacehorse.com, Street Band won five times in her career and retires with earnings of more than $1.1 million.

“Street Band was a special filly for our barn," said Larry Jones, who also trained Street Band and bred her with Cindy Jones and Francis. "She had so much class to go with her Grade 1 talent. It’s bittersweet to see her go, but we are proud that she proved herself to be among the best of her generation.” 

A 7 ¼ length maiden winner at age 2, Street Band would go on to win three Graded Stakes races by an average margin of 3 lengths in her career. Her most impressive win came in the $1 Million Grade 1 Cotillion at Parx. In a field that featured four different multiple Grade 1 winners and an Eclipse Award Champion, Street Band defeated the best fillies of her generation to win going away by 2 ¼ lengths.

In winning the Grade 1 Cotillion, she handed multiple Grade 1 winner Guarana the only defeat in her career to this point. Adding victories earlier in the year in the Grade 2 Fair Grounds Oaks and Grade 3 Indiana Oaks, Street Band won or placed 9 times in her career, in races such as the Grade 1 Alabama at Saratoga.

Street Band hails from a family with success across the globe. She is the sixth winner from seven to race produced by Street Minstrel, a daughter of top-class broodmare sire Street Cry (IRE) and half-sister to two other stakes horses. Street Band’s second dam is Minstrel’s Lassie, herself a Grade 1 and French Stakes winner and at 2, and is a half-sister to Mintly, the granddam of two-time Australian Group 1 winner Manighar.

Phillip Shelton, manager of Taylor Made’s Medallion Racing said, “Street Band took our Medallion Partners on an incredible journey. She was our first Grade 1 winner, beating a star-studded field in the Grade 1 Cotillion. We will always remember her pulling her last-to-first charge to beat Grade 1 winners Guarana, Serengeti Empress, Bellafina, and Champion Jaywalk. Thanks to Larry Jones and our partners Ray Francis and his family, Larry and Cindy Jones, and MyRacehorse.com.”

Taylor Made Sales Agency will consign Street Band to the Fasig-Tipton November Sale, which will be held immediately following the Breeders’ Cup on Sunday, November 8th at historic Newtown Paddocks in Lexington, Kentucky.