News - PIERRO (AUS)
Quality galloper Dragon Leap showed he was right on track for his upcoming spring stakes assignments with a slashing run for second at Ruakaka on Saturday.
Dragon Leap is on target to resume at Ruakaka next month before he chases further black-type titles.
They only ran three races at Wagga on Monday due to the appalling weather and heavy track, but that was enough for astute trainer Kurt Goldman to unleash a very promising juvenile filly by Pierro.
The most expensive yearling by Golden Slipper winning sire Pierro sold in 2021, blue-blood colt Pogacar made an eye-catching winning debut at Doomben on Wednesday.
The Chris Waller stable has a knack for producing nice late season juveniles and we can add Pierro colt Osipenko to that list of up and comers after he powered clear for a debut win at Rosehill on Saturday.
Pierro gave us a promising 2YO winner at Goulburn on Friday that will be well worth following.
Pierro posted a new stakes-winner on Saturday in New Zealand with talented gelding Lord Cosmos capturing the Listed Waikato Equine Veterinary Centre Stakes (1200m) at Te Rapa.
The first foal of a VRC Oaks winner scored his first trial win at Rosehill on Friday which saw juveniles by Pierro, Invader, Street Boss and Written Tycoon winning.
A filly and colt from Fairhill Farm that sold late on Day 1 capped off a record opening to the Australian Weanling Sale at Riverside.
In a close finish, you always love to be on a Pierro as they invariably dig in for the fight as did their illustrious sire.
The big wet continues in NSW but they still managed to get some major trial sessions completed which included two runners having their final hit outs prior to the Percy Sykes Stakes at Randwick tomorrow, so here are all the results with breeding and sale data.
Dual Group I winning two year-old King’s Legacy was the busiest first season sire in Australia last year covering 212 mares at Coolmore last year and his half-brother by Pierro made $675,000 for Segenhoe Stud at Inglis Easter on Tuesday.
Randwick trials on Monday morning featured six two year-old heats and the performance of this Pierro filly will have plenty of punters looking to get on when she returns to the races.
A talented Pierro 3YO bred on the magic cross from the family of Champion 3YO Filly Alinghi made it two wins from three starts at Sandown on Wednesday in the colours of Cambridge Stud’s Brendan and Jo Lindsay.
There were five heats for juveniles at Randwick on Friday morning on the grass with some eye-catching winners that included a speed demon, a blue-blood Snitzel colt and a Pierro filly we predict will be winning a stakes race sooner rather than later.
Talented staying filly Achieve will be the sole runner for Cambridge trainers Roger James and Robert Wellwood this weekend when she contests the Gr.1 Al Basti Equiworld Dubai New Zealand Oaks (2400m) at Trentham on Saturday.
Entered for the Group I ATC Australian Oaks, this full sister to a dual Group I winner cast off maiden status with a commanding win at Hawkesbury on Tuesday.
Having just his second run back from a spell after contesting the Group I ATC Sydney Cup last year, quality Pierro stayer Sacramento showed his class to win the $200,000 Listed Canberra Cup (2000m) on Monday.
The fireworks continued late on day three at Karaka when returning buyer Kevin Walls fought off the attention of an international audience to secure a Pierro colt that had plenty of admirers keen to secure him.
A leading contender for Saturday’s $2,000,000 Inglis Millennium is a fourth-generation descendant of a mare with a legion of fans in the first decade of this century.