Leather'N'Lace
Street Cry (IRE) × Hard Rider (NZ)
Executive Summary
Leather'N'Lace is a highly credentialed, stakes-placed brown mare by the legendary champion sire Street Cry. Representing an elite, highly active commercial family, she is already a proven producer of metropolitan winners. Most notably, her immediate family boasts Asfoora, the 2025 Champion Sprinter in Europe, making this one of the most vibrant and current speed families in the Stud Book.
Bloodstock Profile
- Name
- Leather'N'Lace
- Year of Birth
- 2014 (12 years old)
- Colour / Sex
- Brown Mare
- Brands
- CR nr sh; 25 over 4 off sh
- Current Status
- Served by Bivouac (Last service: 29.09.2025)
On-Track Performance
Key Black-Type Results
Sire Line: Street Cry (IRE)
Street Cry was a world-class racehorse (winner of the Dubai World Cup, Gr.1) and became an elite, breed-shaping global sire. He is famous for siring historic champions such as Winx in the Southern Hemisphere and Zenyatta in the Northern Hemisphere. Crucially, Street Cry is recognised as an elite broodmare sire (sire of the dams of over 2,000 winners and 33 Gr.1 winners), with his daughters producing world-class champions like Romantic Warrior, Rebel's Romance, Farnan, Broadsiding, Cylinder, and Vino Rosso.
Commercial Breeding & Produce Record
Leather'N'Lace has a perfect record of getting her foals to the track, with three named foals all showing city/stakes capability.
6 wins (1000m–1120m), $297,260 in earnings to 2025–26. Highly consistent city performer (MRC Evergreen Turf H., BRC Sky Racing H.) and metropolitan 2YO placed.
Raced 3 times.
High-quality 2YO. Placed at 2 (2025–26) and already 4th in the VRC Thoroughbred Breeders S., Gr.3.
Unnamed colt.
Familial Strength — The Maternal Line
Leather'N'Lace hails from an incredibly durable, high-yielding speed family.
1st Dam: Hard Rider (by Maroof)
A stakes-placed winner of 2 races (2nd VRC Red Roses S., L). She has been a phenomenal producer, leaving 14 foals, all raced, for 12 winners, including:
The "Asfoora" Upgrade
Leather'N'Lace's half-sister, Predestined, is the grandam of global sprinting sensation ASFOORA — crowned Champion Sprinter in Europe in 2025, winning 12 races and over $3.9 million in stakes, highlighted by Group 1 triumphs in the York Nunthorpe S. (Gr.1), Royal Ascot King Charles III S. (Gr.1), and ParisLongchamp Prix de l'Abbaye (Gr.1). Another relative, TITLE FIGHTER, won the VRC Straight Six, L in 2024–25.
Conclusion & Breeding Outlook
Leather'N'Lace is an exceptionally commercial asset. Being a daughter of Street Cry, her genetics are highly sought after by commercial breeders. Her current covering to Bivouac (carrying a full relation to her highly-promising 2YO stakes-performer Firm'N'High) represents a proven genetic match that delivers early, high-class juvenile speed. Backed by the massive international updates of Asfoora, she is a premium addition to any commercial breeding portfolio.