Exasperate continues good Caulfield form

Saturday 4 April 2020, 6:10pm

Slow maturer Exasperate has continued his excellent recent run of form with a tough win on a rain-sodden track at Caulfield.

Success in Saturday's Neds Same Race Multi Handicap (1600m) was Exasperate's third in his past three visits to the track, interspersed with a second placing at Flemington.

Trainer Matthew Brown will consider his immediate options with Exasperate, explaining that if the rain continues in Melbourne he will consider extending the gelding's campaign.

Ridden by apprentice Mitch Aitken, Exasperate ($5.50) scored by 1-1/4 lengths from Charossa ($7), with $2.70 favourite Benitoite the same margin off third.

"He was probably going to the paddock after today but if the rain is going to hang around then we may have a look what's on in a couple of weeks," Brown said.

"I want to get him out in trip next time around so we may freshen him up.

"He's always shown us a lot of ability on the track but he's just been a bit of a slow maturer like the whole family have been."

Brown said he would eventually like to aim Exasperate at his hometown Cranbourne Cup in the spring.

"Dad sponsored the Cranbourne Cup for many years so it's a race that we've always wanted to have a decent runner in, let alone win," Brown said.

"Hopefully we've got the right sort of horse to have a red hot crack.

"He's only getting better. I don't know what level he'll get to but I hope he keeps going the way he's going."

– AAP

Latest News

Prime Thoroughbreds - We have a Host of Leaders in our Team

Tuesday, 29 June 2021

Prime Thor­ough­bred’s cur­rent rac­ing team is putt­ing to­gether quite a re­cord. We have 22 hors­es that have raced in our team at pre­sent. Six­teen of th­ese are win­n­ers in­clud­ing the Stakes win­n­ing trio Ru­bisa­ki, Fituese and Xtreme­time with Miss Di­vine Em and Miss In Charge run­n­ing 4th in Stakes races. This sees a stakes win­n­er to win­n­er ra­tio of 18.75% with a stake’s per­formed to win­n­er ra­tio of 31.25%. Th­ese are ex­cep­tio­n­al fig­ures.   More »

Freedmans land maiden Group One win

Saturday, 27 February 2021

Un­der-rat­ed fil­ly For­bid­den Love has emerged as an au­tumn car­ni­val smokey with a bril­liant per­for­mance to win the Sur­round Stakes at Rand­wick.  More »

Capriccio completes Damian Lane treble

Saturday, 27 February 2021

In a big day for coun­try-trained hors­es, War­r­nam­bool fil­ly Capric­cio has tak­en out the In­glis Dash for Daniel Bow­man.  More »

More news headlines »