Pierrocity and I Am Queen Now In Australia
Karapiro dairy farmer Roger Blunt has sent his 3YO filles Pierrocity and I Am Queen (formerly trained by Stephen Marsh) to Australia where they will be trained by duo Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young's at their Cranbourne stable.
Blunt is keen for his fillies to win Black type races and he says, the current track conditions and lucrative prize money in Victoria encouraged him
"From the outset we said if we had horses that were good enough to go to Australia, that was where we were intending to go with them," he said.
"Stephen had done a great job in prepping them, we had reasonably high hopes for one of them recently and the weather has been totally against them.
Both fillies were bought by Blunt with a breeding career in mind.
Blunt farms two properties in Karapiro and is planning on devoting some of that land to his horse business, where he hopes both fillies will become his foundation mares once they finish their racing careers.
"The plan is to fence off 30 to 40 acres here and set ourselves up with stables. That is the long-term goal and always has been."
Credit: Ritesh Jamkhedkar ritesh.jamkhedkar@secretariatsworld.com