Picture: Lot 128 is a superbly bred Querari colt, who will be trained out of Summerveld by Adam Azzie. She belongs to the Turf Talk Syndicate and shares in her are still available.
The Turf Talk Syndicate are going along at a fine 40% win and place strike rate this season.
All of their representatives are hard-knockers who regularly earn cheques and include Kim Chanel (Erik The Red), Lyrics And Songs (Soqrat), Take It As Red (Hawwaam), Sparkling Sky (Hawwaam) and I Am Sam (The United States).
There are now two more Turf Talk horses available to purchase shares in.
A lot of fun should be had with this pair because they are well bred and are eyecatching lookers.
The man who chose them is Grant Knowles, whose purchases at the Sales include the like of One Stripe, whom he snatched up for just R100,000 at the BSA August Sale before selling him on to Rikesh Sewgoolam, who then had to go to R1.4 million to buy him back after putting him on the Cape Racing Sales Ready To Run Sale simply to qualify him for the Sales races. Today, the dual Gr 1-winning One Stripe is worth an eight figure amount and has an exciting stallion career ahead of him after a magnificent campaign in the USA.
Knowles has an eye for a horse, and for a pedigree, built up through decades in the game.
Both of the two Turf Talk Syndicate newcomers were purchased at the Cape Racing Sales Two-year-old Sale.
Lot 128 will be trained by Adam Azzie at Summerveld and Lot 29 will be trained by Candice and Tammy Dawson at Randjesfontein.
Lot 128 is by the top sire Querari, who finished in third place on the National Sires log last season behind the multiple Champion Sires Vercingetorix and Gimmethegreenlight.
This good looking bay colt was bred by the iconic Maine Chance Farms, owned by Dr Andreas Jacobs, whose family has been champion breeders of Germany no fewer than 19 times. They have have had fine success in South Africa too, chiefly through the six-times champion sire they bred, Silvano. Of course the current stallion phenomenon Vercingetorix is a son of Silvano and stands at Maine Chance Farms.
This colt, called Disco Swing, is out of a four-times-winning Dynasty mare who is a three-parts sister to both Chesalon, a Gr 2 and a Gr 3 winner, and to La Volta (Var), a Listed eight-time winner who is the dam of Gr 1 winner and now sire, Master Archie.
Disco Swing’s second dam is the Gr 1-winning Goldmark mare Sarabande.
His pedigree is choc-a-block full of black type.
He has looks to match and looks to have an exciting career ahead of him.
Adam Azzie is from a legendary family of horsemen who between them have trained some of the greatest to ever grace the South African turf, the like of Hawaii, Elevation and National Currency among them.
The other Turf Talk horse available is a filly (pictured below) by Digital Age, who won the Gr 1 American Turf Stakes at Churchill Downs over 1700m and was the USA’s top-rated four-year-old turf horse.
Digital Age comes from the Danzig line which has excelled in South Africa.
This filly is out of one-time-winning Visionaire mare, who is a half-sister to the dam of recent Listed winner Miss Twinkle.
This filly’s dam is closely in-bred to Gone West, the sire of the SA Champion Sire Western Winter.
Her second dam is dual Gr 1-winning Western Winter mare On Her Toes, while Visionaire is by the Gone West stallion Grand Slam.
The filly’s own pedigree has the classic Northern Dancer/Mr Prospector cross.
She is from the family of a Gr 1 Thekwini Stakes winner Querari Falcon, among others.
The Candice and Tammy Dawson yard have trained a filly, Sentbydestiny (Master Of My Fate), who won a Gr 1 on Thekwini Stakes day, except she beat the boys in the male equivalent race, the Gr1 Premier’s Champion Stakes.
Candice was a protege of five-times Champion Trainer Geoff Woodruff, while Tammy was a protege of the Hall Of Fame trainer Mike de Kock.
The pair are steeped in horsemanship and are currently in the top 20 on the log.
They have the highest strike rate of the top 50 on the log, a phenomenal 26%.
They should get the best out of this impressive chestnut.
Refer to the above advertisements for the Turf Talk Syndicate’s contact numbers.
