Pilote d'Essai resumes in style
European horses can take a while to adapt to the Australian pattern of racing, however, under the smart guidance of the Lindsay Park team, our first import Pilote d'Essai started his Australian racing career with a bang.
After winning on debut last march in devastating fashion over 1400m, the horse was gelded and given a spell with the view of building his fitness for the good middle distance races of the Melbourne spring.
Despite a wide draw and being 80% fit, Pilote d'Essai ran a brillant race yesterday at Flemington over 1400m. Indeed, the gelding was caught 4 wide during most of the trip but he ran the fastest sectionals while closing on the eventual winner who had race fitness on his side.
After the race, his jockey Dayne Dunn was praising his mount saying: "serious horse, nothing went right for him and he should win a nice race over the 1600m to 2000m in the near futur".
We identified Pilote d'Essai as an ideal import last summer and we bought him at the 2015 Tattersalls Octobre Sales for 230 000 Guineas for in partnership jointly formed with Mark Pilkington Bloodstock.
Good luck to the owners Peter Devitt, Darren Thomas, Craig Gordon, Russell Gordon, Peter Katelanis and Tom Payne.
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