News - PIERRO (AUS)
Trainer Mark Newnham is hoping to capitalise on Pierro’s recent momentum at stud with promising juvenile Canyonero at Randwick on Saturday.
This last to first winner by red hot sire Pierro was an easy choice as the ‘One to Watch’ on Wednesday.
An oversupply of the very Danehill blood that has made our thoroughbreds so great has created the catalyst for a mythical stallion to arrive on the scene and capitalize on this situation and as we move into 2018 that horse would appear to have emerged.
Exciting colt Pierata stamped himself as the horse to beat in the $2million Magic Millions 3YO Guineas on Saturday week with a dominant win in the Group III BRC Vo Rogue Plate at Doomben on Saturday and the son of Pierro is also in line for the biggest payday in Queensland racing history.
The Boxing Day meeting at Greyville in South Africa was highlighted by the Listed Christmas Handicap with victory going to talented Pierro three year-old Roy Had Enough, a $95,000 Magic Millions purchase from the Element Hill draft for World Wide Bloodstock.
Exciting young sire Pierro already has Pierata and Cruze heading towards a possible start in the $2million Magic Millions 3YO Classic and produced another contender at the Gold Coast on Saturday with a fast finishing win for promising filly Femme Fireball.
Pierro covered a stellar book of mares in his first season at stud, but none had more ability that former wild child Aqua D’Amore.
Pierro has had a great run through December siring nine winners including this promising three year-old, who scored with authority at Doomben on Wednesday and has stakes goals on the horizon.
Pierro posted his 20th Australian winner of the season with a tenacious victory at Mornington on Friday for the half-sister to classy Group II winners Star of Giselle and Solicit.
Pierro posted his fourth winner in three days with a debut victory at Newcastle on Sunday for a three year-old gelding who carries the same colours as his sire.
Greg Hickman has always had a huge opinion of three year-old Pierro colt Pierata and it proved justified at Doomben on Saturday when he powered clear to win the $100,000 BRC Winning Rupert Plate by nearly three lengths.
Pierro had the race favourite Patrina for the 1100 metre three year-old maiden at Canterbury on Friday night, but when she was scratched at the barrier, the Golden Slipper winning sire quickly found an able substitute.
Pierro has had a very good run towards the end of 2017 and has a first starter at Canterbury tonight that will wear his famous blue colours with the red lightning bolt.
Pierata’s owners knocked back a $1m offer and Warwick Farm trainer Greg Hickman thinks the colt can potentially win more than that over the Queensland summer carnival.
This young sire has hit a real purple patch over the past few weeks and with four promising trial winners at Randwick on Thursday morning his winning run looks like extending through the summer.
Pages and pages have been written about the double Danehill cross and its much speculated on performance, but comparatively very little is written about the double cross of champion sire Zabeel, who was born in the same year as Danehill, 1986.
The 2017 Melbourne Cup Carnival will be remembered as the point in time when Coolmore’s Golden Slipper winning young gun Pierro came of age as a sire.
Pierro filly Pinot gave her sire his first Group 1 win and her trainers Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott their first Victorian Oaks success with a runaway victory at Flemington today.
He might be a Golden Slipper winner, but Pierro has also now proven himself as a Classic sire with his royally bred daughter Pinot scoring a dominant victory in the $1million Group I VRC Oaks at Flemington on Thursday.
The Warwick Farm trials were run on the synthetic track on Monday morning with two juvenile heats won by a Pierro filly and a colt by I Am Invincible that is closely related to this season’s stakes-winning two year-old filly Setsuna, who runs at Flemington on Cup Day.