Maximum Security
As might be expected of a May 14 foal, Maximum Security wasn’t given a hard time as a two-year-old, racing just once, when he scored easily at Gulfstream Park late in 2018. However by the time he reached his actual third birthday, he had passed the post first in all five starts. He led throughout to take the Gr.1 Florida Derby by three and a half lengths and he again led virtually throughout in the Kentucky Derby, crossing the line nearly two lengths clear. Unfortunately, he had caused a ripple effect of interference on the final turn and was demoted.
Maximum Security also reeled off victories in the Gr.1 Haskell Invitational, Gr.3 Bold Ruler H. and Gr.1 Cigar Mile, the last two under top weight. As a four-year-old he took the Gr.2 San Diego H. and Gr.1 Pacific Classic.
Maximum Security’s sire New Year’s Day, still has fewer than 270 foals of racing age but it could have been a very different story had injury not ended his career after this son of Street Cry had won the Gr.1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile on only his third start. Street Cry’s previous winner of the Juvenile, Street Sense, went on to win the Kentucky Derby and to sire a string of Gr.1 winners. Unfortunately, New Year’s Day suffered a non-displaced chip to a hind sesamoid, and instead of contesting the Triple Crown, he was covering his first mares at a fee of $12,500. In addition to Maximum Security, New Year’s Day has also hit the Gr.1 target with that good mare Fighting Mad.
Maximum Security’s dam Lil Indy was sired by a son of A.P. Indy, as was her 3/4-brother Flat Out, a triple Gr.1 winner with earnings of over $3.6 million.
Four stallions from the Street Cry branch of the Mr Prospector male line have sired Gr.1 winners from SEATTLE SLEW line mares, mainly from the A.P. INDY branch. The number of Graded stakes winners inbred to A.P. Indy within four generations already stands at at least 19, two of the latest being the 2023 3yos One In Vermillion and Tapit Trice. Daughters of BERNARDINI, MINESHAFT and TAPIT have done well with the Street Cry line, with a BERNARDINI mare producing the Gr.1-winning SPEAKER’S CORNER to Street Sense. New Year’s Day sired a Gr.3 winner from a daughter of VINDICATION while a $350,000 yearling colt from Maximum Security’s first crop is out of a BERNARDINI mare.
New Year’s Day sired the Gr.1-winning Fighting Mad from a daughter of FORESTRY, which ties in with the considerable success that the Street Cry male line has enjoyed with mares by STORM CAT and his sons and grandsons.
MR PROSPECTOR will be back in the fifth generation of Maximum Security’s foals, which allows him mares with one or two lines to this champion sire. New Year’s Day has a Gr.1-placed runner out of a BROKEN VOW mare.
Mares from the DEPUTY MINISTER line have blended well with such as STREET CRY, STREET BOSS and STREET SENSE. Daughters of AWESOME AGAIN and GHOSTZAPPER should suit Maximum Security.
Street Cry sired the great Australian mare Winx from a grand-daughter of HOLD YOUR PEACE and also enjoyed Gr.1 success with a mare by Hold Your Peace’s son MEADOWLAKE.
ROBERTO line mares have also made a significant contribution to the success of the Street Cry male line. The great Zenyatta is out of a KRIS S. mare and Street Boss sired a Gr.1 winner from a grand-daughter of KRIS S.
Street Cry and his sons have enjoyed black-type success with mares by numerous stallions from the SADLER’S WELLS line, including SADLER’S WELLS, GALILEO, MONTJEU, HORSE CHESTNUT, EL PRADO and MEDAGLIA D’ORO.
A daughter of GALILEO is the dam of a $285,000 colt from Maximum Security’s first crop.