Dynamic 4yo gelding PICCADERRO (Sire: Pierro / Dam: Piccadillies (Uncle Mo (USA)), resumed from a spell and was backed into a dominant $2.45 favourite when scoring professionally at Taree on Friday afternoon, to break his maiden in fine style, albeit with there were some colourful adjectives being uttered under the breath until his rider found clear galloping room late in the race.
PICCADERRO won Race 4 - PANTHERS PORT MACQUARIE AFL MAGPIES MAIDEN PLATE (1200m)
Soft 5 Time: 1:12.04 Last 600m: 0:36.38 Margin 0.9 x 3.25 lengths
Confident that PICCADERRO could get the job done here, having been a dual acceptor for Friday nights Canterbury meeting as well, we elected to head up the line from the Jason Deamer stables at Newcastle and “all’s well that ends well” when PICCADERRO won eased down by a widening 0.9 length with the third horse 4.15 lengths away as the camera flashed.
PICCADERRO had raced 8 times previously, recording four thirds and had raced in far better grade than he was facing here.
First-up off a 26 week break from the sport having undergone a throat operation to fix a problem, he was presented to the track in magnificent condition by his trainer Jason Deamer, arriving off two soft and encouraging trials.
All speed maps and tactics had our horse jumping away cleanly and having the necessary turn of foot to be able to cross this field for fun and set up on speed.
However, as the gates crashed back, our rider chose Plan B. He looked across before ambling over from barrier 8 in the field of 10, going back and sat at the tail of the field, in a slow, muddling tempo up front. Caught 3-deep at the tail, as the leaders were getting away with soft sectionals upfront. Our rider was content to sit back in the ruck, three deep and a clear last to the 800m peg, whilst the eventual runner-up was getting a very soft time leading.
Into the top turn before running down the side, staying tree-deep around the turns, before spearing into the straight, PICCADERRO went past a slow one on the fence, but could see the remainder as the field balanced for the run home.
Passing the 300m our jockey was looking for a way out with a wall ahead and traffic to his outside.
The clear running looked to be appearing to the outside of those tiring in front of him, but our rider elected to dart back to the fence in rain affected going.
The field was staying 3-4 horses off the paint, running down the centre of the track, but PICCADERRO went back to be one off the paint, and started to reel-in the leader who by now had established a dominant gap on the chasers.
Despite carrying 59.0kgs first up off a long break, PICCADERRO was clearly a few classes above his peers as he lengthened stride.
Between the 100m to the 50m he easily reeled in the runner-up WAN LOST and then sailed on bye,
to give our rider an armchair seat over the line.
JOB DONE!
CONGRATULATIONS to his Terrific Ownership Team that deserved the photo on the wall: Dynamic Syndications Racing (Mgr: D W Watt), D Griffiths, P C Vaughan, R J Gall, G Rassos, A J Mihle, W J Lake, S R Freeman, S Millsom, J M Nassim & P G Falvey
The win by PICCADERRO was well deserved.
However, we had not envisaged he would snatch victory from what looked likely the jaws of defeat.
Jason had the horse tuned-up and presented in a way that you couldn’t back anything else.
Despite a few heart palpitations for connections, the gap appeared and PICCADERRO did the rest.
PICCADERRO became Dynamic Syndications 332nd Individual Winner / 364 Runners (91.2%) and recorded our 978th Race Win Overall.
He was also recorded our 27th Win for the current season.
PICCADERRO 4yo gelding
Sire: Pierro Dam: Piccadillies (Uncle Mo (USA))
Summary: 9-1:0:4 Prizemoney: $56,159
1st of 10 P MQ 23Jan26 1200m Soft5 MDN-SW $27,000 ($13,950) Ben Looker 59kg Bar8
2nd Wan Lost 59kg, 3rd Czech Her Out 55.5kg 1:12.04 (600m 36.38), 0.9L,
8th@800m, 8th@400m, $2.60/$2.25/$2.40/$2.45
Onwards and Upwards – Forever Forwards!