Avontuur’s well-bred young stallion Talk Of The Town got off the mark when his two-year-old daughter Famous Lady won the second race at Turffontein on Tuesday.
The bloodline of champions – Talk Of The Town (Pic- Chase Liebenberg)
A first runner for her sire, the Alson Ndzilana trained Famous Lady was always up with the pace in Tuesday’s Book A Table Call 011 681 1796 Maiden Juvenile Plate (Fillies) (800m), and pulled out more in the closing stages, under S’Manga Khumalo, to score on debut by three parts of a length.
Bred by Kilimanjaro Bloodstock, Famous Lady is out of the High Chaparral mare Lady Val.
She hails from the first crop of Talk Of The Town, who won three of just five starts in a brief racing career.
A son of Avontuur’s former top sire Var, Talk Of The Town shares his sire with a host of high-class performers including champions Variety Club, Val De Ra, Via Africa (dam of Australian G1 winner In The Congo), Vardy and Anything Goes.
The chestnut hails from an outstanding female line, with his relatives including not only such successful South African sires such as Northern Guest and Pathfork, but legendary Australian stallion Redoute’s Choice as well.
This is also the family of Desert Lightning, who won the Gr1 TAB Classic at Trentham last Saturday.
Desert Lightning, a grandson of Street Cry, is bred on similar lines to Talk Of The Town’s dam Street Wise, with the latter herself a daughter of Street Cry.
