News - PIERRO (AUS)
Leading young sire Pierro capped a very successful weekend with a third stakes-winner on Sunday after Octabello took out the $350,000 Listed Cranbourne Cup.
Golden Slipper winning sire Pierro posted a stakes double at Randwick on Saturday with Black Type success for I Like it Easy and top class stallion Pierata, who returned to top form with a blazing win in the Group III ATC Sydney Stakes running faster time than they clocked in the Everest.
The colours of last season's champion three year-old colt and Everest contender Trapeze Artist were carried to victory in the Listed ATC Reginald Allen Stakes at Randwick on Saturday by progressive Pierro filly I Like It Easy.
The day kept getting better for Golden Slipper winning sire Pierro, who sired the first two winners at Cranbourne and then chimed in with a third winner when the Bob and Sandra Peters owned filly Arcadia Queen scored an easy debut win at Belmont in Perth.
Pierro gave us a well bred debut winner at Pakenham on Tuesday and as we’ve seen in the past with the Golden Slipper winning son of Lonhro, a promising winner for him at this time of year can go far.
Pierro is a good sire to follow at this time of year given the way his three year-olds jumped out of the ground last spring and this impressive winner from the Tony McEvoy stable at Wodonga on Monday is a name to note.
Robert and Barbara McLure of Morning Rise Stud celebrated a debut winner by Pierro at Bairnsdale on Tuesday.
Well known WA owner breeders Bob and Sandra Peters have already had some luck with Pierro, who sired their Group II WA Derby winner Action and they will no doubt have similar aspirations for his brother-in-blood who won easily at Belmont on Thursday.
To assist with easing the crisis faced by farmers during the current drought in New South Wales, Coolmore Australia will donate a nomination to three of its most exciting young stallions – Pierro, So You Think and Rubick.
It’s a new season and if we are on the lookout for three year-old winners with classic potential it’s hard to go past a Pierro gelding, whose full brother Action won the Group II WATC Derby earlier this year.
Having sired two Derby winners and an Oaks winner last season from his first crop of three year-olds, Pierro is a real ‘watch sire’ as we move towards spring so any debut winner by him that wins like this one did at Geelong on Friday is worth further investigation.
The Group II ATC Missile Stakes was won by champion racehorse and sire Lonhro in 2002 and the 2018 rendition at Randwick on Saturday did look as thought it might be a tribute to ‘the black flash’ on paper.
Talented three year-old Pierro colt Roy Had Enough won his second stakes event of the season in South Africa on Saturday taking out the Listed Avontuur Darley Arabian at Greyville.
In finding the champion sires of tomorrow, it’s always a good lesson to look back at the past.
A homebred for Waratah Thoroughbreds, two year-old Pierro gelding Commander cast off maiden status with a resounding win in the Listed BRC The Phoenix Stakes at the Sunshine Coast on Saturday.
A major switch in selling strategy for your farm’s entire crop is, to put it mildly, not without risk.
At the 2015 Magic Millions National Weanling Sale, James Harron Bloodstock secured a very nice colt by Pierro for his owners Greg and Donna Kolivos and that now three year-old gelding is our ‘One to Watch’ on Thursday.
A Class Two winner at the Sunshine Coast on Sunday is flying below the radar, but may well emerge as the next Classic contender for Pierro, who has already given us a VRC Oaks winner (Pinot) and ATC Australian Derby winner (Levendi).
The colours of this season’s star three year-old colt Trapeze Artist were carried to victory at Warwick Farm by promising two year-old Pierro filly I Like It Easy, who was one of three quick winners for her sire on Wednesday.
Australia’s leading second season sire Pierro featured with a winner in South Africa on Sunday with Don Pierro saluting at Scottsville.