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Star Turn x Taqaseem
1 YO Bay Filly
Trainer
Robert Heathcote
Colour
Bay
Sex
Filly
Foaled
10/10/2024
Price
$1,500

Description
This Star Turn × Taqaseem filly offers serious appeal: a high‑percentage sire, a dam who consistently throws winners, and a female line loaded with elite Australian blood.
THE SIRE: STAR TURN — CONSISTENT, RELIABLE & A GENUINE UPGRADER
One of Australia’s most reliable stallions, Star Turn boasts an outstanding 70.6% winners to runners strike rate. He gives owners a genuine chance of racing a quality horse.
He is already the sire of:
• 10 stakes winners, including Gr.1 winner Startantes
• 12 stakes placed performers
• 61 metropolitan winners, with 37.5% of his runners city class
A $400,000 Magic Millions yearling, Star Turn was a high class sprinter by Star Witness, himself a dual Gr.1 winner by the globetrotting champion Starcraft.
His race record speaks to his quality and toughness:
• Brilliant 2YO winner at Randwick
• Gr.3 Blue Diamond Prelude runner up
• Gr.1 Blue Diamond Stakes fifth
• Gr.1 Golden Slipper sixth after severe interference
• Gr.3 San Domenico Stakes winner
• Gr.2 Schillaci Stakes winner (defeating older horses)
• Placed in the Gr.1 Coolmore Stud, Lightning, Newmarket and William Reid
Honest, fast and consistent — and he’s passing it on.
THE DAM: TAQASEEM — A PRODUCER OF MULTIPLE WINNERS
By champion sire and broodmare sire Medaglia d’Oro (US fee of 250k in 2017)
Medaglia d’Oro achieved his record for the most Grade 1 winners in a single year in
2017, siring seven individual Grade 1 winners. This feat matched an American record previously held only by legendary sires Mr. Prospector, Danzig, and Storm Cat, solidifying his status as a top tier international sire. While shuttling to Australia he produced elite Gr. 1 Golden Slipper winner Vancouver, and Gr.1 Golden Rose winner Astern.
He’s considered one of the world’s great broodmare sires already producing 149 stakes winners including 12 Gr.1 winners. Taqaseem showed talent on the track and has excelled at stud, her record as a broodmare is exceptional:
Taqaseem is a half‑sister to Gr.1 Doomben Cup winner Sense Of Occasion, a winner of 8 races and over $1.7 million.
Her female line is one of Australia’s most prolific:
• Second dam Saywaan (by Zabeel) was a city‑class mare
• Half sister to Gr.1 Sir Rupert Clarke winner Rewaaya
• Third dam is a half-sister to Easy Date (Easy Date is the dam of Snippets, Quick Score, Asawir, True Blonde)
• Ancestress of 30+ stakes winners, including Forensics, King’s Legacy, Oohood, Ertijaal
Notably, 68.6% of runners descending from Easy Date are winners, and the family continues to produce high class horses such as Hong Kong star Little Paradise, winner of 6 of his 11 Hong Kong starts, including the Hong Kong Classic Mile. Little Paradise is by Star Turn’s sire Star Witness.
This is a female line that consistently delivers speed, class and durability.
FOR THE PEDIGREE BUFFS: A CROSS WITH PROVEN RESULTS
This filly shares key genetic patterns with Startantes, Star Turn’s Gr.1‑winning daughter.
Pedigree highlights:
• Line bred to Last Tycoon, strengthened by the presence of his relation Roi Dagobert
• Both sire and dam carry strains of Sadler’s Wells / Nureyev, reinforcing the influential mare Special
• The same pattern appears in Star Turn stakes winners Golden Pegasus, Starry Heights and Prairie Flower
Supported by background duplications of influential mares — Chelandry, Marchetta, Queen Mary, Alcibiades, Woodbine, Frizette — this pedigree blends elite speed with deep female strength.
WHY THIS FILLY?
She offers everything buyers want:
• A sire with elite consistency and a high winners to runners strike rate
• A dam who has produced multiple winners, including high class performers
• A proven genetic pattern shared by Star Turn’s Gr.1 winner Startantes
• A female line rich in black type, durability and commercial appeal
To be trained by Rob Heathcote, Premiership winner and trainer of Buffering, Rothfire and our Prince of Boom.
Shares are just $1700 per 5% with all costs incurred to date and up until 31st May 2026 included.