PICCOLO will never be a PIVOTAL, Jon - he's been around a whole lot longer and had some good oppotunities. PIVOTAL is one of those rather surprising stallions who is out performing at stud what his pedigree would have predicted. He has a fantastic ability tio upgrade his mares. Nor sure you would describe PICCOLO thus..
However, PICCOLO now has his G1 winner in LA CUCARACHA and is a really decent sire for getting actual winners. Unfortunately, I reckon he's probably going to have a quiet spell for a couple of years, as his books went down for a couple of years (his fee dropped from £5K to £2.5 this season).
I rate PICCOLO as I do COMPTON PLACE - really decent UK sires available to the commercial breeder at sensible stud fees. I'd be very happy to send RUNS IN THE FAMILY back there next season, all being well - in fact I wanted to use him this but my partner wanted to use IMPERIAL DANCER, so as it was his choice this year, that's where she went!
Maybe we'll be booking BARRANTES to him in 2006, eh Jon?