Belmont Guineas beckons I’m All The Talk
WA sire I’m All The Talk can complete a ground-breaking season when Billy Ain’t Silly and The Spruiker line up in the Listed Belmont Guineas (1600m) later this month.
The Darling View Thoroughbreds resident has been an embedded Top 10 stallion on the Australian second-season premiership since Watch Me Dance completed the G3 Champion Fillies – G2 WA Guineas double at Ascot in November.
I’m All The Talk (Stratum) has also been represented interstate by Caulfield Stakes winner All Banter (Listed W J Adams Stakes) and Garrire, who broke through in a Morphettville nursery on Saturday.
Gary Portelli trained I’m All The Talk to win a G3 Skyline Stakes and he’s bought a couple back from the west to Warwick Farm. Speedy chestnut Walkin’talkin’ will be winning races for the stable on the back of an impressive fourth on debut at Scone on Cup day.
A week later, on the opening day of the winter season in Perth, Billy Ain’t Silly and The Spruiker both staked winning claims for the Belmont Guineas on June 19.
Billy Ain’t Silly will be peaking for trainer Colin Webster. “He’s thriving and loves going to track,” Webster said following that last-start victory in Crown Perth Stakes (1600m). “He worked to get to the front today and then held together before Laqdar (Ramoly) let him sprint clear.
“He’s a free-flowing galloper and I knew last year he would develop into a real racehorse. He comes through his runs enormously and is definitely not silly.”
Billy Ain’t Silly will have a final lead-up in the LR Raconteur Stakes (1400m) this Saturday. He’s a homebred for Bill and Patricia Robinson and his dam Tiara Mak (Medaglia D’Oro) continues the successful line of Mungrup Stud’s star matron Kalatiara (Metal Storm).
The Robinsons also race I’m All The Talk’s Belmont juvenile winner Dad’s Bigheaded with Webster. They founded Sesco Security Systems at Guildford in 1971 and board Tiara Mak at Alwyn Park in Serpentine where she has a filly foal by Maschino.
The Spruiker is also in good hands being a stablemate of Watch Me Dance with Steve Wolfe in Albany. He was racing first-up since Boxing Day and firmed from $41 into $31 to win the Amelia Park Hcp (1300m).
“He’s been flying at home and I was confident even though it was a hot field,” Wolfe admitted. “He’s was fit enough and I told ‘Shooter’ (McGruddy) not to worry about 1300 metres fresh.”
McGruddy settled The Spruiker behind Timely Outburst before giving ground at the top of the straight when the Sessions filly sprinted to a clear margin. But once balanced, the Great Southern visitor ranged up to score by a half-length.
The Spruiker was bred by Wolfe and is the first foal from his Belmont-winning NZ-bred mare Pins Perhaps (Pins). Her final foal is a two-year-old son of Playing God. Wolfe has been a strong supporter of I’m All The Talk and he also polishes recent Ascot winner Bragwell.
I’m All The Talk covered 92 mares at a $6,600 service fee in 2020 and Darling View has kept him at the same price this year. His book was topped up in November when Playing God (Blackfriars) was sidelined with colic. Playing God will cover a reduced book at $16,500.