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.
Coolmore's Golden Slipper winner Pierro was the only active sire to produce
three stakes-winners at Flemington in Cup Week in Pinot, Levendi and Kentucky
Breeze.
While that trio are now enjoying a well-earned break it would appear Pierro has
more promising three year-olds in the pipeline.
At the Randwick trials on Thursday morning, four of them hit the line first
with the Greg Hickman trained colt Pierata the most impressive.
A Randwick winner at two and Group II placed during the Brisbane Winter
Carnival, Pierata has had a good spell since finishing a luckless seventh in
the Group I BRC JJ Atkins Stakes.
He zoomed away from his rivals in the 730 metre trial to win by more than five
lengths with Brenton Avdulla in the saddle. It was a dominant display that will
see him well fancied when he returns to race day competition.
As a $160,000 Magic Millions purchase from the Kitchwin Hills draft for his
trainer, Pierata will be eligible for the rich $2million Magic Millions 3YO
Guineas, a race that is surely somewhere on the radar for this talented colt.
Other notable three year-old winners for Pierro were Fresh Start (Gai
Waterhouse and Adrian Bott), Aeecee Tong De (Gai and Adrian) and Patrina (Peter
and Paul Snowden).