Piccolo (horse)

Piccolo
Sire	Warning
Grandsire	Known Fact
Dam	Woodwind
Damsire	Whistling Wind
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	8 May 1991
Country	United Kingdom
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Stanley Estate and Stud Co
Owner	T Leigh John Mitchell John White
Trainer	Mick Channon
Record	21: 4-4-4
Earnings	£267,710
Major wins
Chipchase Stakes (1994) Nunthorpe Stakes (1994) King's Stand Stakes (1995)

Piccolo (foaled 8 May 1991) is a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He showed promising but unremarkable form in his early career, winning one of his first ten starts. In the summer of his three-year-old season he was switched to sprint distances and became a top class performer, winning the Chipchase Stakes before being awarded the Nunthorpe Stakes on the disqualification of Blue Siren. He returned as a four-year-old in 1995 and won the King's Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot. Apart from his victories he also finished second in both the Haydock Sprint Cup and the July Cup. After his retirement from racing he became a successful breeding stallion.

Piccolo is a bay horse with a white stripe and three white coronet marks bred by the 18th Earl of Derby's Stanley Estate. He was one of the first crop of foals sired by Warning, the top-rated European racehorse of 1988 who stood as a breeding stallion in Europe before being exported to Japan. The best of his other progeny included Diktat (Prix Maurice de Gheest, Haydock Sprint Cup), Charnwood Forest (Queen Anne Stakes) and Annus Mirabilis (Dubai Duty Free). Warning was a male-line descendant of the Godolphin Arabian, unlike more than 95% of modern thoroughbreds, who trace their ancestry to the Darley Arabian.

Piccolo's dam Woodwind showed useful form in a brief racing career, winning two races from four starts a achieving a Timeform rating of 103 as a two-year-old in 1975. She was one of numerous winners descended from the Irish broodmare Lady Kells: others have included Exceller, Sakhee and Mastercraftsman.

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