Pierro has won 11 of 13 starts and more than $4.2 million in Australia over the past 13 months. With the success comes the burden of carrying high weights in major stakes.
Saturday at Randwick Racecourse, Pierro, a 3-year-old in the Southern Hemisphere, will carry 126 pounds in the $2.06 million Doncaster Handicap over a mile on turf. As a 3-year-old racing against older horses, Pierro concedes weight to older horses such as topweight Shoot Out (128) and Glass Harmonium (126).
There were three good-looking winners on the Wednesday card at Newmarket in England, but Hot Snap might have been the most impressive of them, winning the Group 3 Nell Gwyn Stakes by 2 1/4 lengths in only her second start.
Undefeated Toronado and talented Dundonnell, whose last start came in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf, renew their acquaintance Thursday at Newmarket in the Group 3 Craven Stakes, a prep for the Group 1 English 2000 Guineas.
If Sky Lantern is to win the Nell Gwyn Stakes on Wednesday at Newmarket and go onto the Group 1 English 1000 Guineas as one of the race favorites, she will need more luck than she had last November in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf.
Logotype is proving to be more than just an outstanding 2-year-old.
The 2012 champion juvenile male in Japan, Logotype remained unbeaten in two starts this year, with a win in Sunday’s $2,527,000 Japanese 2000 Guineas at Nakayama Racecourse.
Ridden by Mirco Demuro, Logotype, the 5-2 favorite, rallied five wide on the turn to win the Grade 1 Japanese 2000 Guineas by a half-length over Epiphaneia, another 5-2 shot. Codino, sent off at 3-1, was third in the field of 18.
Black Caviar extended her unbeaten streak to 25 races, and won an astonishing 15th Group 1 race in Saturday’s $1,050,000 T.J. Smith Stakes at Randwick Racecourse in Australia.
Similar to so many of her victories, the 7-year-old Black Caviar won without difficulty in the race over about six furlongs.
Logotype, Japan’s top 2-year-old male of 2012, will be favored to win his fourth consecutive race in Sunday’s $2,527,000 Japanese 2000 Guineas at Nakayama Racecourse.
A colt by Lohengrin, Logotype has won 4 of 7 starts in his career, including the Grade 1 Asahi Hai Futurity Stakes last December. In his only start of 2013, Logotype won the Group 2 Spring Stakes over 1 1/8 miles on turf at Nakayama on March 17.
Black Caviar can extend her unbeaten streak to 25 races in Saturday’s Group 1 T.J. Smith Stakes at Randwick Racecourse in Australia, a race with a post time that may test the dedication of her American racing fans.
The $1,005,000 Smith Stakes has a post time in Australia of Saturday at 5:10 p.m., which is Saturday at 3:10 a.m. Eastern and 12:10 a.m. Pacific. It may be worth staying up for.
Brothers Cristian and Mirco Demuro swept the exacta in the $2,311,000 Japanese 1000 Guineas at Hanshin Racecourse on Sunday with Ayusan and Red Oval.
Cristian Demuro, 20, was a late replacement on 17-1 Ayusan in the Group 1 1000 Guineas over about a mile. Her scheduled rider, Genki Maruyama, was injured in a spill on Saturday.
