News - PIERRO (AUS)
Wexford Stables have locked in the Gr.2 Foxbridge Plate (1200m) as Dragon Leap’s next major target following his convincing win at Ruakaka on Saturday.
Peter Moody believes promising Pierro filly Mollynickers has spring potential following her dominant win in the $175,000 MRC VOBIS Gold Ingot (1400m) at Caulfield on Saturday.
A close second on debut at Ballarat back in February, this Peter Moody trained two year-old daughter of Pierro was a short priced favourite when returning at Moe on Thursday.
Pierro has been in hot form of late racking up his 100th winner of the season last weekend and the winners kept coming at Eagle Farm on Wednesday with the Ingham family homebred two year-old filly Utopian Wine opening her account at her second start.
The Lindsay Park Racing team have had an exceptional season with their juveniles and produced another talented debut winner at Geelong on Friday by Golden Slipper winning sire Pierro.
With six stakes-winners from his current crop of three year-olds, Pierro added two new three year-old winners to his tally at Wyong on Thursday with promising maiden wins for Lysander and Jamrock.
Trial action in Sydney was at Warwick Farm on Friday with five heats for juveniles and winners included a homebred for Jonathan Munz by Pierro and an expensive filly by I Am Invincible.
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Progressive So You Think sprinter Think About It will take a picket fence of five straight wins into the $1million Group I BRC Kingsford Smith Cup (1300m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday, while at Goulburn on Friday his half-sister by Pierro broke the ice to win her first race.
Offered by Yarraman Park as a breeding proposition only, quality Group II winning Pierro filly Paris Dior will now call Colmore Australia home after being secured by Tom Magnier for $1.6million.
There was a busy set of 15 trials at Canterbury on Friday morning and seven were for juveniles with a couple of eye-catching heat winners by Pierro and Zoustar.
Champion trainer Chris Waller has a great record in the Group III ATC Frank Packer Plate (2000m) and he won it again Randwick on Saturday with quality Pierro colt Osipenko.
A fantastic opening day of the Easter Yearling Sale saw a remarkable 14 lots realise $1m or more as buyers stepped up to defy global economic trends and ensure Easter remains in a league of its own.
Coolmore’s Golden Slipper winning Group I sire Pierro set a new sale ring benchmark for himself when the half-sister to this year’s brilliant two year-old filly Learning to Fly sold for $1.75million at Inglis Easter on Monday.
A $625,000 purchase from the NZB Ready to Run Sale in 2021 where he was the second highest priced horse of the sale, talented Pierro gelding Simeon opened his account at Sandown on Wednesday at his second start.
Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott are never afraid to travel a progressive three year-old and Pierro gelding Stonecoat made a successful leap from a Gosford victory last month to the Listed SAJC Morphettville Guineas (1600m) in Adelaide on Monday.
Five heats for juveniles at Rosehill on Monday morning with winners including a flashy Snitzel filly that holds an entry for the $1million Group II ATC Percy Sykes Stakes.
Sir Owen Glenn's Go Bloodstock is enjoying a memorable season with their two-year-olds, and a couple of Go Bloodstock-bred fillies could well fight it out for a Golden Slipper birth in Saturday's Group III Magic Night Stakes at Rosehill Gardens.
A Pierro x Now Now filly – the last lot catalogued in Book 1 – joined a Toronado colt of Collingrove to share top-lot honours on the third and final day of the Premier Yearling Sale.
Two days after the 3yo Pierro gelding Cool Jakey made a winning debut over 1200m at Warwick Farm, Pierro struck again with his first 2yo winner of the season, the debutant Tu Qui Santuzza at Canterbury on Friday.