TREKKING claimed the honours in a history-making win in Adelaide’s premier sprint race on Saturday, the $400,000 Group 1 Goodwood Stakes over six furlongs. He completed a unique three-generation success in the 139-year history of the event.

He is trained for Godolphin by James Cummings, whose grandfather Bart won it four times, starting in 1973 with Wise Virgin. Jim Cummings, Bart’s father, is also on the race’s roll of honour as the trainer of St Comedy in 1951 and First Scout two years later.

This was a 10th career success in 28 starts for the southern hemisphere five-year-old son of Street Cry (Machiavellian) and he is the best of three named foals, all winners this season, from the Redoute’s Choice (Danehill) mare Outdoor. She won three times at up to seven furlongs.

Last year Trekking won the Group 1 Stradbrooke Handicap over seven furlongs, the longest trip he has won over, while the shortest has been five and a half furlongs. His earnings now stand at A$3,765,495. Trekking’s winning siblings are Jetski (Lonhro) in Australia and Winnie Star (Medaglia D’Oro) in Macau.

Outdoor is a half-sister to a pair of group-placed winners and they are all out of the Australian champion three-year-old filly of 2006, Serenade Rose, a daughter of Stravinsky (Nureyev). Three of her eight victories were at Group 1 level, including the Victoria Oaks and the Australian Oaks. She was the second foal of Rose Of Tralee, an Australian-foaled daughter of Sadler’s Wells (Northern Dancer).

Offered for sale at the 2004 Easter Yearling Sale, Serenade Rose was bred by the Best Western Group and sold to Irish agent Adrian Nicoll for $400,000. She ended her racing career with winnings of $1,773,635. Her dam Rose Of Tralee went on to have 11 foals, all of which raced and all but two of them won. Best of the rest was Serenade Rose’s full-brother Ronchi, a six-time winner who was many times placed at group race level.

Rose Of Tralee was one of seven winners for Circus Ring (High Top), the joint top-rated two-year-old filly in Europe in 1981 when she won the Group 2 Lowther Stakes at York and the Listed Princess Margaret Stakes at Ascot. Two of her offspring were listed winning fillies, Ellie Ardensky (Slip Anchor) and Lady Shipley (Shirley Heights), but she has many descendants who have shown far superior ability.

Comic Strip/Viva Pataca (Marju) was a multiple champion in Hong Kong and was voted the Horse of the Year in 2009. His 18 successes included the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Cup twice. His half-sister Laughing (Dansili) was a stakes winner in Ireland before heading stateside to land the Grade 1 Diana Stakes and the Grade 1 Flower Bowl Stakes.

Another of Circus Ring’s immediate descendants was the twice Italian champion older horse Voila Ici (Daylami) and he was at his peak a decade or so ago, winning the Group 1 Premio Roma and the Group 1 Gran Premio di Milano. He was a Group 2 winner in France and runner-up in the Group 1 Underwood Stakes in Australia.

Leitir Mor (Holy Roman Emperor), runner-up in both the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes and National Stakes, is also from this family, as too is the multiple Grade 2 US winner Brave Act (Persian Bold).

Street Cry was euthanized in September 2014, a month before Trekking was born. This shuttle stallion was just 16 years of age. Winner of the 2002 Group 1 Dubai World Cup and the Grade 1 Stephen Foster Handicap, he was champion sire in Australia once. He is best remembered for siring two outstanding racemares, one on each hemisphere – Winx in Australia and Zenyatta in the USA. He has a number of sire sons too, including Street Boss, a multiple Grade 1 sire with five top-level winners to date. He stands under the Darley banner at Jonabell in Kentucky and has been a shuttler to Australia.