Owners Jonny Allison and Gary Stevens have enjoyed a profitable campaign with the two-year-old son of Havana Gold, who has triumphed in all four of his starts to date.

Bought for £27,000 at Tattersalls Ireland’s 2021 September Yearling Sale, the Eve Johnson Houghton-trained colt won at Chepstow and Newmarket before landing the richest nursery contest in the country, the £100,000 Sky Bet Nursery at the Ebor Festival.

Streets Of Gold enjoyed a further lucrative pay day when securing a six-figure first prize for a one-length success in the Tattersalls Ireland Super Auction Sales Stakes at the Curragh during Irish Champions Weekend.

Johnson Houghton, who trains just outside the Oxfordshire village of Blewbury, said: “You buy a horse at that sale and you always hope that you’re going to win the race. But there’s a lot of horses that are sold at it and only one winner, so it was great that it was us.

“He’s been brilliant for us this year. He’s run four times, won four times – including the hot nursery at York. We’re really happy with him.”

Streets Of Gold’s total prize money – more than £180,000 and counting – has far exceeded the price that Stevens and Allison paid for him just over a year ago. The owners been connected to Johnson Houghton’s yard with varying previous success; long standing supporter Gary Stevens provided Beaver Patrol, who won nine times in a long career in which his official rating peaked at 108.  Jonny Allison started having horses with Johnson Houghton in more recent times and – according to the trainer – there have been “some absolutely useless one-legged donkeys!” among them.

Johnson Houghton said: “I have to say fair play to him for sticking on and I’m delighted to reward him with a good horse.”

Streets Of Gold is set for a return to the course where he claimed a length and a quarter victory on the opening day of the Sky Bet Ebor Festival in August, this time facing an additional furlong in trip.

Johnson Houghton said: “It was great – I was really thrilled to win that. I’ve only won one other race at the (Ebor) Festival and that was a five-furlong nursery, maybe 15 years ago with a little filly.”

At 101, Streets Of Gold is the highest-rated horse among a strong entry for Friday’s contest, which carries a £50,960 winner’s purse, being the most recent of now twenty-five

Contests on the Knavesmire to have at least a six-figure purse.

His trainer said: “I think the plan is probably to run, ground dependent. He’s in very good form and I’m looking forward to running him again. He’s better on better ground – we would hope to be there on decent ground.”

York Racecourse’s final meeting of the 2022 season gets underway at 2.05pm on Friday and concludes with Saturday’s seven-race card, which includes the £100,000 Coral Sprint Trophy.