$1.1million Pierro Colt from Celebrity Queen

At the 2021 Inglis Chairman’s Sale, Tom Magnier paid $2.5million to secure Group I MRC Oakleigh Plate winner Celebrity Queen and while her first foal was retained to race as Group I placed colt State Visit (2c Wootton Bassett x Celebrity Queen, by Redoute's Choice), her second was offered at Inglis Easter on Monday and the Pierro colt fetched $1.1million.

An athletic bay, bred on the renowned Pierro x Redoute’s Choice cross, he was purchased by Liam Peters’ Byerley Bloodstock and Peters knows a great deal about the family as Celebrity Queen was bred and raced by his grand-parents Bob and Sandra Peters.

A seven-time winner of over $800,000, Celebrity Queen is from a family that has been nurtured for success by the Peters family for generations with the grand-dam of this colt being stakes-winner Celebrity Miss and the next dam is dual Group I winner Miss Margaret.

The first foal from Celebrity Queen is the Ciaron Maher trained Wootton Bassett (GB) colt State Visit, who was beaten a head in last Saturday’s Group I ATC Sires Produce Stakes at just his third start.

Celebrity Queen produced a colt by Justify last year and is now back in foal to Wootton Bassett.

Pierro also had a great result on the first day of the sale with the Riversdale consigned colt from Luluoru selling for $500,000 to Ciaron Maher Bloodstock / David Redvers Bloodstock. The colt is a half-brother to stakes-winner Jack the Lad and Group III placed Yes Lulu.