PIEMONTE STUD SET TO IMPRESS AT AUGUST TWO YEAR OLD SALE
Prominent KZN stud farm, the Piemonte Stud, will be bringing top notch consignment to this year’s August Two Year Old Sale.
Among the stallions represented in this draft are the likes of Act Of War, Futura, Ideal World, Querari, Rafeef, and The United States, with the two-year-olds on offer hailing from some top-class families.
Mio Presto (Lot 131), a colt by the very exciting Cape Guineas winner Act Of War, is a half-brother to the useful Quattro Passi and he is out of a half-sister to the dam of talented sprinter Cartel Captain.
Act Of War’s paternal half-brother Futura is another promising young sire represented here -his daughter Suora Volante (Lot 256) is a half-sister to 4 winners including Zimbabwe champion Mia Finola.
Non Giocare (Lot 258), a colt by last season’s Leading First Season Sire Rafeef, is out of the top-class racemare Beataboutthebush, and this colt’s first three dams are all stakes winners!
Leading sire Querari, whose progeny include the likes of Rio Querari, Caya Coco and Maryah, is responsible for a beautifully bred daughter (Lot 226) of Listed East Cape Fillies Nursery winner Winter Fantasy -herself a daughter of G1 Thekwini Fillies Stakes queen Royal Fantasy. This filly, whose dam is a half-sister to G3 Acacia Handicap winner Simply Royal, is from the same family as recently retired Horse Of The Year Summer Pudding.
Fizzante (Lot 190) is an Ideal World filly bred on the same cross as champion Smart Call, while Grande Lupo (Lot 193) is a Crusade colt whose dam is a winning daughter of multiple US champion sire Tapit.
Bomber Grigio (Lot 246) is a daughter of the very promising Galileo horse The United States out of a three time winning daughter of Black Sam Bellamy (a full-brother to Galileo).
Fellow Galileo horse Flying The Flag has five lots on offer, including Mia Ragazza (Lot 42), a filly out of five time winning, stakes placed daughter of Silvano, and Che Ballerina (Lot 292). The latter is a filly out of 2yo stakes winner Dancing Natasha, from the same family as champion US sire Into Mischief. Piemonte’s August Sale can now be viewed online at www.bsa.co.za.
