TOO EASY FOR YUNA IS PIERATA ON DEBUT

By Graham Potter | Wednesday, April 9, 2025

A debut winner is always a big plus as it indicates the trainer has something to work with moving forward with that particular horse and so it was a good result for the Tony and Maddysen Sears training partnership when Yuna Is Pierata scored in emphatic style in his first career start which came at Ipswich in a Two-Year-Old Maiden Plate over 1100m on April 9.

The Pierata colt came into the race after having two trials … both of which he won … as a warmup to race action and the potential he showed there put him on top of the betting boards at $3.30 for his first assignment.

Yuna Is Pierata jumped smartly from a number one barrier and apprentice Cody Collis quickly placed the Sears trained runner in prime position, holding down second place on the rail … tracking the early leader Hannabana ($5) by a neat length.

Collis then eased Yuna Is Pierata up on the inside of Hannabana early in the sweep to the home turn and these two runners then matched strides until they turned into the home straight where it quickly became apparent that Yuan Is Pierata was traveling the better of the two.

With Collis now giving Yuna Is Pierata the green light to go, Yuna Is Pierata needed no second asking and he quickly established a two length advantage at the head of affairs and he continued to extend his lead in untroubled fashion in the run to the line to score by a decisive 3.22 length margin.

Emphasising the ease of his victory was the fact that the third placed runner All Too Foxy ($14) finished all of 5.10 lengths back with the balance of the field well and truly strung out behind that.