Strengths: Two-time Grade 1 winner at the Classic's 1-1/4 miles distance, he's also proven on the game's biggest stages – Kentucky Derby, Breeders' Cup et al – so the environment will be familiar and manageable for him.

Weaknesses: Street Sense has a tendency to “hang” when outside of runners and does his best running when allowed to navigate a rail-skimming trip, which always isn't possible given a race's shape. He only tested the world's best older horses on a championship stage once.

In The Genes: From the first crop of Dubai World Cup and Stephen Foster Handicap winner Street Cry, himself a third-place finisher in the 2000 Breeders' Cup Juvenile. Street Sense is the first foal out of the $190K-earning mare Bedazzle to race.

Status: Street Sense's final career race was the 2007 Breeders' Cup Classic, where he finished fourth. He will begin a stud career at Darley in Lexington, Ky., for a fee of $75,000. With earnings of $3,205,000 in 2007, he ranked second on the list of North America's top money-winners last year. After the 2008 breeding season in the Bluegrass, he will shuttle to Darley Australia for the Southern Hemisphere 2008 season.

Bet You Didn't Know: Only Sunday Silence (1989) and Unbridled (1990), the latter also trained by Carl Nafzger, have won the Kentucky Derby and Breeders' Cup Classic in the same season.