Chris Waller trained his first two-year-old winner of the racing season at Canterbury on Wednesday but then questioned the wisdom of asking too much of young and inexperienced racehorses.

"I don't know why we do it," Waller said after Brazen Beau toyed with his opposition in the Australian Turf Club Handicap (1100m).

Waller had sent 12 two-year-olds to the races before Wednesday without winning but Waller is hardly fazed by his lack of early-season success with juveniles.

"We have one two-year-old race a week (in Sydney). There's 16 races for three-year-old and four-year-olds and we all try to smash horses up for two-year-old races," he said.

Waller made the right move with Brazen Beau, scratching the colt from a Rosehill race last Saturday to run on Wednesday despite the presence of Hampton Court, a hyped $2 favourite trained by Gai Waterhouse and part-owned by billionaire businessman James Packer.

While Brazen Beau ($2.70) showed natural speed under Nash Rawiller from an inside draw to lead, Hampton Court was trapped wide and had to be urged along to take a closer position.

But the $500,000 colt was no match for Brazen Beau and eventually conceded 4-1/2 lengths to the winner at the finishing post.

Rawiller thinks Brazen Beau can figure in better-class two-year-old races but suspects he might be even better as he gets older.

"He should measure up to stakes level and he also gives me the feel that he has scope to go on with it down the track," the jockey said.

"I think he was born to be a racehorse."

It's taken Green Empire a bit longer to make an impression on the racetrack but his future might be just as bright despite the narrow nature of his win in the Big Sports Breakfast Handicap (1550m).

Green Empire is a four-year-old trained by Bart and James Cummings but he didn't make it to the races until late last year.

Nevertheless, he strikes jockey Hugh Bowman as a horse on the move after holding on to win in a photo.

"When they came at him he fought hard and that's what you like to see," Bowman said.