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My Talent, from the first small crop sired by Talent Bar in 1967, won seven races and earned over $50,000.
and in ’72, Talent Gap was Aged Horse of the Year in Texas. Then there was Salty Talent. Perner says, “Salty’s dam is a partnership mare
I own with Pam. When we got Talent and started breeding him, I didn’t have any mares with running blood, so we were in the market for a few mares and Harvey Peltier had a Super Charge mare in training at Del Rio with James Chapman. Peltier had bought Super Charge
and brought him to Louisiana, and this filly of his didn’t show them a whole lot of run, so he wanted to sell her. I asked James what I could buy her for and he called the owner, who said he would take $800. Pam had saved up some barrel racing money, and she wanted the mare to breed to Talent, so we decided to just go partners and buy her. Pam would get the horse colts and I’d get the fillies, because she wanted the geldings for barrel racing. So, that’s how we came to buy Super Ro Ann.
“We bought her in the spring of ’66. We hauled her straight to James Hunt’s at Sonora and left her there to be bred to Talent Bar. We didn’t get her in foal to Talent the first year, so I brought her on home and turned her out with a horse I had at home, Robin Robin, and she had a horse colt by him. I sold it to Johnny Cox for Pam. The next year, we bred her to Talent Bar and she had Talent Supreme. I sold her in the All American sale in 1970, and Frank Weaver, the man that later bought Salty Talent, bought her through an agent. Talent Supreme was the first horse that Frank Weaver ever ran. Super Ro Ann’s Salty Talent was next year’s foal. She had them back-to-back.
“Talent Supreme had the sixth fastest qualifying time in the Columbus Futurity. She was a AAA mare and she had the second fastest qualifying time at Goliad, but the mare got sore and she never did get to run up to her
Talented Lady, from the second crop sired by Talent Bar in 1968, won multiple stakes races including the 1971 West Texas Derby.
Hook’Um Talent, foaled in 1970, won 14 of 71 starts and earned nearly $20,000.
Talk About Talent, foaled in 1973, is shown after breaking his maiden at Columbus Race Course on Jan. 25, 1975.
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LOOKING BACK - AN EXCERPT FROM JANUARY 1974 ISSUE