Pierro v All Too Hard showdown stuck 'in the air'

HE showdown the racing world craves - Pierro against All Too Hard - remains up in the air with the trainers of both champion colts conceding they are undecided about their immediate race programs, reports the Daily Telegraph.Australian Turf Club officials are hopeful both three-year-olds meet in the Group 1 $500,000 Royal Randwick Guineas (1600m) at Warwick Farm on March 16 as the clash would attract extraordinary interest and almost certainly the biggest attendance to the western suburbs raceco

HE showdown the racing world craves - Pierro against All Too Hard - remains up in the air with the trainers of both champion colts conceding they are undecided about their immediate race programs, reports the Daily Telegraph.

Australian Turf Club officials are hopeful both three-year-olds meet in the Group 1 $500,000 Royal Randwick Guineas (1600m) at Warwick Farm on March 16 as the clash would attract extraordinary interest and almost certainly the biggest attendance to the western suburbs racecourse in decades.

But Gai Waterhouse wants to see how Pierro has come through his taxing first-up win in the Hobartville Stakes at Rosehill last Saturday before determining his next start. John Hawkes also is monitoring All Too Hard's recovery from the setback which ruled the colt out of the Australian Guineas at Flemington on race morning.

Hawkes said All Too Hard, brilliant winner of the Orr Stakes and Futurity Stakes at his first two starts this preparation, has been treated and would need an "easy three or four days" before resuming full training.