Her trainer Peter Moody described the race as “nice gallop” but Black Caviar’s win in the Group 1 Sportingbet Classic (1200m) at Morphettville proved more than an exercise gallop.

Physically, Saturday’s Morphettville sprint was a barrier trial for $254,000 prizemoney but the race also provided Adelaide racegoers with their first chance to see the sprinting freak.

Black Caviar (Bel Esprit – Helsinge, by Desert Sun) was in a race of her own as she sauntered down the Morphettville straight, easing 4-1/2 lengths clear of her opposition on the line without any pushing from jockey Luke Nolen.

Black Caviar’s romp was the five-year-old’s 20th consecutive win, eclipsing the performances of champions such as Gloaming, Desert Gold and Zenyatta, who all won 19 consecutive races. The Morphettville event provided Black Caviar with her ninth Group 1 success.

“It was tremendous to get a nice gallop. Happy days,” Moody said. “She’s in great shape and it’s just fabulous to see the people here to enjoy her today.

“I don’t think we ever had too much concern. Luke was pretty kind to her – he gave her one little smack on the bum and she did the rest.”

“It’s unbelievable how she copes with it. Most of your sprinters are your wound-up, excitable types while she sits back and takes it all in her stride. She’s a remarkable horse.

“She’s very relaxed and she knows she is something different.”

Black Caviar only needs two more successes to break the Australian record for the consecutive wins. Queensland country sprinter Sava Jet won 22 straight races between 1983 and 1985.

Moody’s focus will now turn to assessing Black Caviar’s condition over the coming days to decide his next move with the nation’s equine treasure.

Black Caviar could return to Adelaide for a likely win in the Group 1 Goodwood (1200m) in mid-May before she travels to England in early June to prepare for the Group 1 Diamond Jubilee Stakes during the Royal Ascot carnival.

Outstanding Lonhro (Octagonal – Shadea, by Straight Strike) colt Pierro (Lonhro – Miss Right Note, by Daylami) took an iron grip in Australia’s Champion 2YO title with a decisive win in the Group 1 Champagne Stakes at Randwick.

Pierro produced a dominant display to defeat his eight rivals comfortably. The unbeaten colt had the $400,000 race in his keeping once jockey Nash Rawiller asked him for an effort topping the Randwick rise.

Pierro relished his first attempt at the mile to finish 2-3/4 lengths clear of Dear Demi (Dehere – Shirley, by Zabeel), this completing the ‘Triple Crown’ of Sydney’s Group 1 juvenile races after taking out the Golden Slipper and ATC Sires’ Produce Stakes in less decisive fashion. Pierro became the sixth horse to complete the Triple Crown and the first since Dance Hero in 2004.

The Champagne Stakes was Pierro’s sixth win of a streak that began in the Listed Breeders’ Plate (1000m) in October last year.

“We have seen a colt write himself into history today,” Pierro’s trainer Gai Waterhouse said. “He is outstanding and I am really privileged to get a horse like this.

“He is very special.”

Pierro’s monopoly of the Sydney juvenile Group 1 events continues the run of Darley-based stallions in Australian Group 1 races for two-year-olds. More Than Ready (Southern Halo – Woodman’s Girl, by Woodman) became the only non-Darley stallion to produce a two-year-old Group 1 winner in the past two seasons when Samaready (More Than Ready – Samar, by Secret Savings) won the Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m) earlier this year.

Elusive Quality (Gone West – Touch Of Greatness, by Hero’s Honor) colt Sepoy (Elusive Quality – Watchful, by Danehill) won last year’s Blue Diamond Stakes and Golden Slipper while Helmet (Exceed And Excel – Accessories, by Singspiel) won the ATC Sires’ Produce and Champagne Stakes.

Benfica (Lonhro – Hut, by Danehill) made it five from five for Darley stallions when he claimed the Group 1 T J Smith Classic (1600m) in June last year.

Toowoomba trainer Tony Gollan lamented the luck of former shuttle sire Piccolo (Warning – Woodwind, by Whistling Wind) after Temple Of Boom (Piccolo – Temple Spirit, by Special Dane) provided him with his first Group 1 win in The Galaxy (1100M) at Randwick.

Piccolo stood for seven seasons at Eureka Stud in between northern hemisphere seasons at Lavingston Stud in the UK. The sire produced Picaday (Piccolo – Our Today, by Semipalatinsk), who won the Group 1 T J Smith Classic (1600m) before he was despatched back to the UK, not to return, in 2006.

Gollan said he was an admirer of Piccolo’s progeny but said climactic conditions prevented the sire’s progeny from producing their best during his stay.

“Piccolo was really unlucky to have stood here during drought years,” he said. “He produces terrific soft trackers but it hardly rained the whole time he was here.”

Temple Of Boom relished soft track in Melbourne to claim the Group 3 Aurie’s Star Handicap (1200m) and Group 2 Gilgai Stakes (1200m) at Flemington in the spring.

Gollan said a minor injury forced him to look to Victoria with Temple Of Boom in the spring but The Galaxy was always a long-range plan.

White-hot jockey James McDonald positioned Temple Of Boom midfield before the gelding accelerated brilliantly at the 200 metres to draw clear of his opposition.

“We eyeballed this race off a year ago, to be honest, but he hurt himself in the preparation,” Gollan said.

“We had to back off him. We went to Melbourne, he did a great job for us, we set him for this race again hoping for wet ground, and we got it. The rest is history.”

Piccolo stood at Throckmorton Court Stud in Worcestershire in England during the 2011 northern hemisphere breeding season.