Sept 24, 2024 – Having one of the world’s top bloodstock agents as one of your club’s managing partners has its perks. While buying more than $20 million in acquisitions for some of the top thoroughbred owners and racing stables in the game, Donato Lanni also found two colts for the Canuck Racing Club at the 2024 Keeneland September Yearling Sale.
In winning the bid on Hip 2826 on September 19th, he bolstered the Canuck stable with a strong-looking Ontario-bred colt by Upstart out of Dulce Arabe. On the last day of the sale, Lanni won the bid on Hip 4107: a colt by Street Boss out of Hidden Wonder that Canuck Racing Club will share in equal partnership with X-Men Racing.
New York-bred Upstart is a multiple graded stakes winner who was bought for $130,000 at the 2013 Fasig-Tipton Preferred New York Bred Yearling Sale. He had 15 starts in his racing career and retired with a record of 4-3-4 and $1,732,780 in purse earnings. Ranked in the Top 100 by earnings in 2014, 2015, and 2016, Upstart’s first-place finishes include winning the Funny Cide Stakes (Black Type) at Saratoga in 2014 with a 101 eSpeed, the G2 Lambholm South Holy Bull Stakes in 2015 with a 111 eSpeed figure, and the 2016 G3 Razorback Handicap at Oaklawn which he won while registering 106. Upstart was also runner up in the 2015 G1 Florida Derby, third in the Sentient Jet G1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile in 2014 and, in his last race, he finished third in the G1 Whitney Stakes with a 121 eSpeed.
Upstart has sired five crops of racing age, 300 foals, 200 starters, 16 black-type winners,1 champion, and 145 winners of 423 races who have collectively earned $19,354,795. His progeny include Zandon, a G1 winner who earned a record of 3-6-3 and $2,200,000 in 14 starts before he retired to stand at Spendthrift Farm this year for a $12,500 stud fee. In 2022, Zandon won the Blue Grass Stakes, a race which was a highlight of our club’s amazing trip last April.
A powerful and record-breaking G1 winning sprinter, Street Boss was bred in Kentucky and foaled on March 31st, 2004. Sired by champion sire Street Cry (whose progeny includes over 130 stakes-winners), Street Boss was sold for $300,000 as a yearling at the 2005 Keeneland September Sale. He raced from 2007 to 2008 on synthetic at distances of 6 to 7 furlongs.
As a four-year-old, Street Boss went on a winning streak of five consecutive races, culminating in dual G1 victories in the Triple Bend and Bing Crosby Handicap where he rallied from last to first. Street Boss had his last ever run in the 2008 Breeders’ Cup Sprint where he finished third before retiring to stud with a record of 7-3-1 in 13 starts.
As of this year, Street Boss has sired 13 crops of racing age, 1858 foals, 1301 starters, 72 black-type winners, and 922 winners of 2668 races with earnings of more than $102.5 million. His progeny include Anamoe (G1, +$7.7 million), Cathryn Sophia (G1, $1.2 million), and The Quarterback (G1 winner).