Her Pedigree

Pride Of Jenni's sire is the only horse in history to win both the Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes and Group 1 Sires' Produce Stakes, completing the double as a brilliant two-year-old who never raced beyond 1400m. A son of champion sire Street Cry, Pride Of Dubai retired to Coolmore Australia, where he stood his first season at a fee of $55,000 and has gone on to sire a strong crop of black-type performers.

Despite his own racing career being built entirely around speed, Pride Of Dubai has proven well capable of throwing middle-distance performers, headlined by Pride Of Jenni herself plus Dubai Honour, winner of the Group 1 Ranvet Stakes and Group 1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes over 2000m, and Bella Nipotina, his first Group 1 winner via the Manikato Stakes and later the Group 1 Everest. Deny Knowledge, runner-up in the Group 1 Australian Cup, is another of his stakes-winning sons.

Pride Of Jenni's dam Sancerre was a modest winner in her own right, taking out a race at Ipswich up to 2200m. Sancerre is the dam of two winners, with Pride Of Jenni comfortably the best of them — a reminder that the very best racehorses don't always come from the most decorated female lines, but from the right cross.

Sancerre is by champion New Zealand sire O'Reilly out of Vouvray, giving Pride Of Jenni real staying depth on her female side despite her own dam's modest record. That depth shows up clearly a generation further back.

On paper, Pride Of Jenni's pedigree doesn't shout 2000m. Her sire never raced beyond 1400m, and her dam's only win came at a moderate level up to 2200m at Ipswich. Yet she has gone on to win and place at the very top level over middle distances, including her record-breaking 2024 Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2000m) victory at Randwick.

The explanation sits a little further back in the female line. Her second dam Vouvray, by champion sire Zabeel, won the 2004 Group 1 Queensland Oaks over 2400m and ran fourth in that year's Caulfield Cup behind the famous Makybe Diva and Elvstroem quinella. Her third dam Real Success, by Success Express, was a multiple stakes winner who herself raced up to 2000m. That genuine staying depth, paired with Pride Of Dubai's sheer speed, is what racing analysts have pointed to in explaining how Pride Of Jenni built a frontrunning style that could sustain a true gallop over a mile and a quarter.

Pride Of Jenni's grandsire Street Cry is one of the most influential stallions of the modern era. As well as siring Pride Of Dubai, Street Cry is also the sire of Winx, the four-time Cox Plate winner and 25-time Group 1 winner widely regarded as Australia's greatest ever racemare, and of Zenyatta, the champion American mare and 2010 Horse of the Year. He is also the broodmare sire behind top international gallopers Romantic Warrior and Rebel's Romance.

Pedigree analysts have also pointed to a deeper link between Pride Of Jenni and Winx: both carry the influential sire Success Express through their female lines, a cross that has now produced two of Australian racing's most beloved mares. Pride Of Dubai's family also runs closely alongside two of the world's leading speed sires, Invincible Spirit and Kodiac, who share the same female family through the mare Eljazzi.

Pride Of Jenni was foaled on 21 August 2017 at Trelawney Stud in Cambridge, New Zealand, bred by Brent and Cherry Taylor. She was offered as Lot 677 at the 2019 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale through Segenhoe Stud's draft, where Tony Ottobre signed her for $100,000 — a price that has since proven to be one of the best-value buys in recent Australian racing history.

When her racing career comes to an end, Pride Of Jenni's first mating has already been confirmed: a visit to three-time champion sire I Am Invincible, one of the most sought-after stallions in the southern hemisphere. It's a pairing that breeders have already described as a match made in heaven, and one that promises to carry her bloodline — and the sky blue and purple silks she made famous — into the next generation.