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$1.1million Pierro Colt from Celebrity Queen

Tara Madgwick - Monday April 7

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, her second was offered at Inglis Easter on Monday and the Pierro colt fetched $1.1million.

$1.1million Pierro colt from Celebrity Queen.

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.

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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 (USA) last year and is now back in foal to Wootton Bassett.

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