WITH the forthcoming arrival of both the brilliant young French jockey Olivier Peslier and Gerald Mosse, his predecessor, it will be no surprise if Patrick-Louis Biancone feels in the mood to organise a formal reunion of former riding talent during International Cup week.
For Peslier, 22, now employed as first jockey to Daniel Wildenstein in France, is the last in a long and successful line of apprentices once attached to the Biancone stable in France.
Following in the footsteps of Serge Gorli, who, unfortunately, was unable to handle the heady success he enjoyed with Bikala, the Prix du Jockey-Club winner, Dominique Boeuf, a former French champion, Eric Legrix, now well-known to Hong Kong punters, as well as William Mongil and, more notably, Gerald Mosse, Peslier, 22, has plenty to live up to.
But the young rider of Verveine has the ability, even if his sometimes hot-headed approach needs a little adjusting for him to remain at the top in Europe.
He rode his first Group One winner only last May, but has already repaid the faith shown in him by Wildenstein by landing another Group One, the Grand Criterium, aboard the owner's Lost World at Longchamp on the eve of the Arc in October.
That same weekend, Peslier found himself suspended for four days by the Stewards for the erratic running of Talloires in the home straight in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, which caused Only Royale to be badly checked and Intrepidity to suffer interference.
