Concert Tour hits the right note in San Vicente Stakes

The Bob Baffert-trained Concert Tour (3 c ex Purse Strings by Tapit) ran out a ready winner of the San Vicente Stakes (Gr 2, 7f) at Santa Anita on Saturday and in the process became the 77th stakes winner for former Darley shuttler Street Sense (Street Cry). 

Last seen making a winning debut over six furlongs at the same track on January 15, the colt stayed on strongly to beat his stablemate Freedom Fighter (Violence) by half a length, while The Chosen Vron (Vronsky) was a further two and three-quarter lengths back in third. 

Bred and raced by Gary and Mary West Stables, the colt is the only winner out of the winning Tapit (Pulpit) mare Purse Strings. 

The colt’s third dam is unraced mare Wind Chime (Marfa) - the dam of stakes winner My White Corvette (Tarr Road), who in turn produced multiple Grade 1 winner Stardom Bound (Tapit). 

Further back the colt is from the same family as stakes winner Native Echo (Crimson Satin) - the grandam of Listed scorer Catabolize (Prospector Jones). 

Street Sense shuttled to Australia for five seasons and he is represented by ten stakes winners in the country, headed by Group 1-winning quartet Dixie Blossoms, Sense Of Occasion, Politeness and Hallowed Crown, who stood his first season at Twin Hills Stud in 2020, having stood at Darley Australia for the five previous seasons.