Piemonte Stud mare Wishful Eye had two winners this week in KZN, with Faustino (Crusade) winning on Sunday at Hollywoodbets Scottsville, and the courageous Filippo winning for the 9th time under the care of trainer Yogas Govender at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Wednesday.

Wishful Eye, a Var filly bred by Middlefield Stud and from the family of Tetre Rouge, is a three time winner including the Listed In Full Flight Handicap, and ran a close second to the famed Val De Ra in the Kwazulu Natal Listed at Clairwood. Wishful Eye has produced four winners at stud to date.

Piemonte Stud presented a very exciting filly half-sister to the aforementioned geldings, to the BSA Inspectors for the Nationals in January. She is a beautiful specimen by leading sire Vercingetorix – look out for her in the catalogues this year!

Filippo is a 7yo by Toreador and doesn’t look to be stopping anytime soon. Owned by Messrs P Rambaras, Y Naidoo & Mr J & Mrs N Deokynarain, the gelding relishes 1000m sprints. He sold for R230 000 off the KZN Yearling Sale.

Three year old Faustino has won three races all over 1000m for trainer Kom Naidoo, owned by Messrs Kenny K Govender, E C Abraham, Rajan Naidoo, Mesdames D Jithoo & Trinisha Pillay. Sold for R220 000 off the National 2YO Sale, he was given a fantastic ride by Kaiden Brewer to win by over a length.

Well done to Piemonte Stud and the connections!

Piemonte will be offering a 12 strong draft at the 2020 National Sale, with their consignment including yearlings by such exciting and notable stallions as Admiral Kitten, Captain Of All, Flower Alley, Flying The Flag, Futura, Global View, Master Of My Fate, Rafeef, and What A Winter.

Franca (Lot 7) is a filly from the first crop of G1 Computaform Sprint winner Rafeef, and her Australian bred dam Afnaan is a winning Red Ransom daughter of G3 winner Lucky Diva.

Proven G1 sire Flower Alley is represented in this draft by a colt (Lot 138) out of a half-sister to G1 Paddock Stakes winner Emblem Of Liberty, while champion sprinter Captain Of All’s sole representative in the draft is a three-parts sister (Lot 141) to the Captain Al sired G3 winner Wheredowego.

Yet another nicely bred yearling in the draft is Bella Marina (Lot 151), a Master Of My Fate filly out of the stakes placed Flashing Star, while Grayswood Pink (Lot 379) is a Futura filly out of G3 Pretty Polly Stakes third place-getter Seat Of Power.

Galileo sons Global View and Flying The Flag have five in this draft between them, with Global View’s pair including a colt (Lot 199) out of the stakes placed Hurricane Shelley and a filly (Lot 226) out of a stakes placed daughter of champion sire Silvano.

Flying The Flag, a full-brother to multiple G1 winners Magical and Rhododendron, has three in this draft including a half-sister (Lot 398) to Dahlia Plate winner Alfeo, a half-sister (Lot 419) to G3 filly Celestina, and a filly (Lot 470) out of regally bred East Cape Fillies Nursery winner Winter Fantasy.

Last but by no means least in Piemonte Stud is Bethel (Lot 472), a son of champion sprinter and top sire What A Winter, and this colt is out of a Fort Wood half-sister to G3 Byerley Turk winner Mambo Mime.

Named after a province in Italy, Piemonte Stud has already produced its share of top-class racehorses, with the farm’s notable graduates including Brandina, Carlita, Kalamain, O Tamara, and Mauritian champion Cherish The Charm.

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He produced his first winner from his first runner at Fairview on Friday when his Piemonte Stud-bred son Daichi made a winning debut over 1000m for Gavin Smith in impressive fashion.

Act Of War – top notch racehorse

Under jockey Marco Van Rensburg, the Act Of War colt kept going gamely to record a half length win in a time of 57,42 secs.

A R70 000 buy from the 2019 Emperors Palace National 2YO Sale, Daichi is out of the two time winning Captain Al mare Darrie. His connections picked up a R60 000 Bloodstock SA Value Added Bonus for the victor.

His sire Act Of War won eight of only 12 starts for Joey Ramsden, with his six graded victories including a triumph in the 2014 G1 Cape Guineas, as well as scores in all of the Gr2 Selangor Cup, Gr3 Kuda Matchem Stakes, Gr3 Langerman and Gr3 Cape Classic.

Unplaced just once from 12 starts, Act Of War earned R1 820 500.

Act Of War, who won graded races at two, three and four, is one of seven winners produced by the stakes placed Cordoba mare Si Senorita.

The latter, also dam of Gr3 Langerman winner Subastador and Listed Off To Stud Handicap winner Luna De Victoria, was South Africa’s Broodmare Of The Year in 2014-2015.

Act Of War stands at Summerhill – his fee is available on application.

First into the ring is Candia (Lot 13) a regally bred daughter of Equus Champion Soft Falling Rain and Listed East Cape Fillies Nursery winner Winter Fantasy –herself a daughter of G1 Thekwini Stakes heroine Royal Fantasy.

Well performed Galileo son Global View is represented here by Caearo (Lot 136) a colt out of a eight time winning half-sister to the very speedy stakes winner Lielums, while Cerelia (Lot 187) is a Jackson filly bred on similar lines to champions Horse Chestnut and Monyela. Jackson is also the sire of Diedi (Lot 333) a colt out of the stakes winning East Cape champion Dancing Natasha, from the family of champion Beholder and red hot US sire Into Mischief.

Another young Galileo sire represented in the Piemonte draft is the blue blooded Flying The Flag, a brother to G1 winners Magical and Rhododendron. The latter has two sons on offer –a colt (Lot 263) out of a daughter of Australian G3 winner Lucky Diva, and a colt (Lot 292) whose siblings include the high class sprinter Amazing Strike.

Boom sire Vercingetorix is the sire of Campa (Lot 223) a half-brother to talented G3 performer Celestina, while another red hot stallion represented in the Piemonte draft is multiple G1 winner Wylie Hall, whose son Decimus (Lot 278) is a half-brother to multiple stakes winner A Time To Dream.

Equus Champion Capetown Noir (whose very first runner was the classy Brandina) is represented here by a half-brother (Lot 458) to the stakes winning dam of G3 Prix du Cap winner Rose In Bloom (recently sold for R800 000), while red hot sire, and European champion, Oratorio is represented by a colt (Lot 472) from the immediate family of champion sprinter and G1 Breeders’ Cup Sprint winner Sheikh Albadou.

Yet another Equus Champion with a yearling in this draft is the very promising Captain Of All, whose first runners include the stakes winning Captain Anne Bonny. He is the sire of Cleto (Lot 493) a colt out of a winning Fort Wood own sister to G3 Peninsula Handicap winner Wonder Lawn –a former record price NYS buy!

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Piemonte Stud is firmly established on the breeding map in South Africa, with their horses easily recognisable country wide with their Italian names.

Father and son duo, Lee and Dino Scribante, have invested heavily in their broodmare band, purchasing well-bred fillies off our leading sales nationally and racing the fillies to great success and retiring them back to Piemonte.

Amongst their success stories, naming both bred and purchased are Carlita, recent 2-time winning daughter of Capetown Noir – Brandina, Alfeo, Kalamain, Celestina and the late O Tamara – and their astute purchases include the Stakes Winners Queen Forever and Beataboutthebush. Recent winners include Fillipo, Aloysius, Mia Finola and Ninnoto. Keep a watch for Elnora who impressed in her Scottsville Barrier Trial for trainer Wayne Badenhorst.

Lee and Dino offer every horse that they breed for sale, and keep the horses that don’t reach reserves when consigned. From those, Lee and his brother who race in partnership have had significant success, with 2nd placed Listed filly Brandina being one of them!

The Scribantes were involved with another late and great sire Await The Dawn, who has been a sad loss to breeding in KZN and a Gr1 producer including Hero’s Honour.

Sunday saw Tony Rivalland produce a striking win with Piemonte-bred Vinson, a very large and handsome 3yo gelding from what must be the last crop of Await The Dawn, who burnt up the turf on Sunday in the colours of Mr Sadha Naidoo.

The sizeable gelding skipped clear under Sean Veale to win by almost two lengths from Whiskey Road. He showed his potential in his Barrier Trial, skipping clear to take it by over 5 lengths with what seemed little effort. Vinson has now won and placed from only three starts and the Rivalland Stables look forward to a bright future with him.  Vinson sold for R90 000 at the 2017 KZN Yearling Sale.

Piemonte are perfectionists in all they do, and are currently sporting a winners to runners percentage of 33.3% with 26 wins and 106 places for the current season, and almost R2-million in stakes earned for their horses connections.

The smart Crusade colt Alfeo looks to have booked his berth at Greyville on 30 June for the richly endowed KZN Breeders Race Day after a facile victory in Saturday’s R150 000 Listed Dahlia Plate at Fairview.

The race has been dominated by Alan Greeff and the Scribante family, as well as trainer Gavin Smith, and the top local yards and they filled the first four places again.

Aldo Domeyer had Alfeo in touch up the outside as Super Socks led Madame Speaker.

Alfeo started running at the leaders at the 300m and drew away to hold the fancied Madame Speaker to 1,25 lengths in a time of 71,1 secs.

Born A Bully by Eightfold Path was slightly slow away and lagged behind the early charge to be beaten into third, a further 2,25 lengths.

Bred by KZN-based Piemonte Stud, Alfeo was bought back for R20 000 at the 2017 BSA KZN Yearling Sale and took his earnings to R211 850 with his third win and second place from five starts.

Lee and Dino Scribante of Piemonte Stud are having an outstanding season, producing 42.6% winners to runners to date, with 90 places and 2 Black Type Winners this season – all from 54 runners with over R2,1-million in earnings. The Piemonte horses can be easily recognised at the tracks, all sporting Italian names.

The 2017 KZN Yearling Sale draft for the Scribante’s has produced the outstanding Carlita and debut winner Di Me, as well as Alfeo.

A son of Crusade (Mr Greeley), Alfeo is out of the one-time winner Singapura Cat (Black Minnaloushe). This is the exceptional family of Scented Royal (his third dam), which has produced the likes of Franny and more recently, Dubai Gr2 winner Janoobi.

His Gr1 winning sire Crusade is a half-brother to several Group Winners and performers, including multiple Gr1 winner Seventh Heaven and Cristoforo Columbo, and this is his fourth Stakes Win this season – the previous coming from Covered In Snow (with 2 Listed Wins) and Butchie Boy in Zimbabwe.

Crusade held his own at the recent Nationals, averaging R280 000 in Session 1 and R150 000 in Session 2, for a combined total of 12 yearlings sold.

He stands for R20 000 at the Scott Bros Highdown Stud.

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G1 WINNERS DOMINATE PIEMONTE DRAFT

Leading KZN breeders Piemonte Stud will be represented by a 14 strong draft at the 2018 Emperors Palace National Yearling Sale, due to get underway in Germiston next week.

Remarkably, 11 of the Piemonte yearlings on offer are sired by G1 winning stallions, with the draft including lots by the likes of Capetown Noir, Captain Of All, Jackson, Soft Falling Rain and Wylie Hall.

July winning champion Bold Silvano, whose offspring include top class 2yo Bold Eagle, is the sire of Nunziatella (Lot 244). This bay filly is out of a stakes placed half-sister to dual G1 winner Rabada.

Fellow Equus Champion Capetown Noir has a smart filly in the form of Norina (Lot 520). This bay, intriguingly inbred to champion sire Fort Wood, is out of a winning own-sister to former record priced yearling, and G3 Peninsula Handicap winner, Wonder Lawn.

Yet another Equus Champion to feature in this draft is champion sprinter Captain Of All. The son of Captain Al is the sire of Bella Ballerina (Lot 391), a filly out of former top East Cape racemare, and Lady’s Slipper winner, Dancing Natasha. This filly is from an outstanding US family, with her relatives including numerous high-class performers including top sire Into Mischief and his Breeders’ Cup winning siblings Beholder and Mendelssohn.

Horse Of The Year Irish Flame, a son of outstanding sire Dynasty, is represented by a half-sister to two winners, notably G3 Champion Juvenile Cup winner O Tamara. The filly, who has been named Calandra, is from the same family as G1 winning racemare Love Is In The Air.

Dynasty’s triple G1 winning son Jackson has made a cracking start with his first runners this season and he has two in the draft. Jackson colt Adalgiso (Lot 265), is a half-brother to a five time winner and is out a winning Strike Smartly half-sister to G3 winner Zen Arcade. Inbred to champion sire Fort Wood as well as the great mare No Class, Adalgiso is bred on similar lines to the great Horse Chestnut.

Jackson is also sire of Pietrina (Lot 326), a filly out of the stakes winning Var mare Wishful Eye.

Another hugely promising young sire, Master Of My Fate (by Jet Master), is the sire of Elnora (Lot 477). This filly is a ¾ sister to multiple champion sprinter and Hong Kong Sprint hero J J The Jet Plane (by Jet Master).

Prince Of Wales’s Stakes winner Byword is also represented in the Piemonte draft. The chestnut is responsible for Spin Master (Lot 414), who is out of a winning half-sister to G2 winner First Again.

Ideal World, whose offspring include champions Smart Call and Hermoso Mundo, is the sire of Affonso (Lot 296). This bay colt is a half-brother to the very talented stakes placed winner of four, Hurricane Shelley and his second dam is champion racemare Tatler.

Breeders’ Cup runner up Noble Tune, whose first crop have come out firing, is the sire of Calvina (Lot 349) –a half-sister to top class stakes winning filly A Time To Dream, while the Soft Falling Rain colt Aemiliano (Lot 293) hails from the same outstanding international family as leading sires Invincible Spirit and Kodiac.

Current boom sire Visionaire has two lots on sale here- a filly (Lot 364) whose G3 placed dam is a half-sister to 13 time stakes winner Vauclair, and a colt (Lot 366) whose dam is a full sister to SA Fillies Classic winner and top class producer Caughtintheslips.

Redoute’s Choice sire Wylie Hall, a dual G1 winner himself, is the sire of Anacleto (Lot 331), a colt whose winning dam is a daughter of top sire Red Ransom and Australian G3 winner Lucky Diva.

Piemonte have been enjoying plenty of success on the track this season, with their graduates including current star two-year-old Carlita.

The National Sale commences trading on April 24^th at 11:30 am and is set to conclude on April 26^th.

Lee Scribante of Piemonte Stud has been purchasing choicely-bred fillies from various sales across South Africa over the past few years,  with the view to racing them and returning them to KZN to stand at their flourishing Piemonte Stud – a farm that due to the expansion of the quality broodmare band now has two ‘branches’ –  in Summerveld and the other in Mooi River.

Lee and his brother with whom he races in partnership with, dominated the juvenile category at the recent Eastern Cape Racing Awards, winning with Queen Forever (pictured left in the sales ring) in the fillies category and the smart Kimberley Star the colt / gelding award.

Queen Forever, a Varsfontein-bred daughter of Gimmethegreenlight out of Rathmor-bred Queen Of All – a daughter of the great KZN matron Gypsy Queen who passed away recently, has had two wins from three starts, including the Listed Ladies Slipper Stakes.

It didnt stop there – impeccably-bred Beataboutthebush secured the Champion 3YO Filly for the Scribantes, another daughter of Gimmethegreenlight from the immediate damline of True Master, KZN-bred 5-time Gr1 winner Dancewiththedevil and Smart As Paint. Beataboutthebush is now a 5-time winner, including the Breeders Guineas Listed and East Cape Paddock Stakes Listed. 

In Piemonte’s short history, they have bred the likes of Eastern Cape champions Kalamain and the sadly deceased Gr3 and 4-time winner filly O Tamara, as well as the smart Sean Tarry inmate – Kahal Gr3 placed filly – Celestina.

Lee Scribante, current vice Chairman of the KZN Breeders Club and the current TBA Chairman, as a rule sell every horse they produce at auction – however if the horses are not sold in the ring, they are retained and sent to training.

It has been most warming to see the significant success to come from Piemonte Stud in a short space of time – last season saw the farm producing 14 winners from 32 runners for an admirable statistic of almost 32% for the season and several emerging youngsters such as Fillipo throwing their names forward as ones to watch this coming season.

Foals born so far this season from Piemonte Stud include:

-An Oratorio colt out of Scripture by Requiem (dam a 9-time winner and black type).

-A Soft Falling Rain filly out of Winter Fantasy by Western Winter (the dam is a 5-time winner and also black type.) Winter Fantasy was also voted East Cape Champion Filly.

-A very exciting arrival indeed from the mare Tapdance by Tapit, her sire needing no introduction! She has produced a Judpot colt.

-Lunar Lee by Victory Moon has produced a Global View colt. Lee comments that the dam is an 8-time winner and “its exciting to see Galileo progeny run – I cannot wait for my first Flying The Flag foal!”

-Lunar Blue by outstanding broodmare sire Fort Wood, has produced a lovely colt by Soft Falling Rain.

“These are just a few of ours on the ground so far,” Lee advises. The fillies retiring to Piemonte this year include Kanara (by Silvano) and Hurricane Shelley.

“Kanara is Black Type and a 5-time winner with about 10 places. She has definitely earned her place at stud!” Out of Danehill mare Kimberley Coast, this American imported damline includes dual Gr1 winner, Copper Parade.

The next is home-grown Hurricane Shelley by Argonaut. Lee says of the filly: “If you can recall she was not sold at the last sale we had at Sun Coast [KZN Yearling Sale]. I lost her mother Tanzania by Black Sam Bellamy (family of Galileo) so I had to keep her as a replacement for the loss.

She and O Tamara were not sold so we raced them both – and both daughters of Argonaut were very successful. She ran for us a total of eight times for four wins and four places, and we had to retire her to stud because of an injury she sustained.”

Congratulations to Lee and Dino Scribante on an outstanding achievement.

KZN-bred juvenile Argonaut filly, O Tamara, has won the Lady Slipper Stakes (Listed) at Fairview today over 1400m under Andrew Fortune. The filly is bred by Lee and Dino Scribante’s Piemonte Stud, out of Spectrum mare Syncopate.

The filly won by a head from Favour’s Pride and Extradite (the latter a half-brother to Rathmor’s Eventutal Angel). O Tamara is trained by Alan Greef and owned in partnership by Piemonte’s Lee Scribante and his brother, CG Scribante.

Piemonte Stud is based in Summerveld, and a young stud farm that is already seeing plenty of success – with a strong broodmare band present, their stats for the season lie currently at 44.4% runners to winners (as of 10/06/2016 nhra.co.za). Their oldest home-bred crops racing are four years old, and includes their very first runner Kalamain who had to be withdrawn off the KZN Yearling Sale after injuring his knee. The Admire Main gelding has won five races and placed five times, and Stakes Performed.

Syncopate was a three time winner and this is her first foal, its no secret that her sire Spectrum is an exceptional broodmare sire and she in turn is out of a Caesour mare, the latter also an outstanding broodmare sire in his own right. The third dam is Gr2 Oaks winner Rootin Tootin, and this is the family of Silvery Flyer, Putney Flyer, Jet Jamboree and Princess Of The Sky.

O Tamara has yet to be out of the money, winning three times and placing four times – including second to The Merry Widow in the East Cape Fillies Nursery Listed.

O Tamara’s half-brother by Toreador, Greto, sold for R150 000 at the recent National Yearling Sale.

Congratulations to the Scribante’s and all concerned with this lovely juvenile filly.