{"id":17272,"date":"2019-04-25T07:27:45","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T07:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/?p=17272"},"modified":"2019-04-25T07:27:45","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T07:27:45","slug":"grown-up-zoutori-wins-again-at-flemington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/2019\/04\/25\/grown-up-zoutori-wins-again-at-flemington\/","title":{"rendered":"Grown up Zoutori wins again at Flemington"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three-year-old Zoutori<\/strong> (Zoustar x Atotori) has done a fair amount of growing up which in turn has led to the gelding being unbeaten in his current campaign.<\/p>\n

After a first-up win at Pakenham earlier in April, Zoutori added Thursday’s Auckland Racing Club Trophy (1400m) at Flemington to his record.<\/p>\n

Mathew Ellerton, who trains in partnership with Simon Zahra, said after Zoutori recorded a half-length win under Craig Williams in the 1400m handicap for three-year-olds, the gelding was finally getting his head right.<\/p>\n

Zoutori, who was sold out of Amarina Farm’s 2017 Inglis Easter Yearling Sale, was tried at stakes level in the spring culminating in a fourth placing in the Sandown Guineas.<\/p>\n

“The spring probably came around a bit quick for him but he’s had a good time to grow up a bit since,” Ellerton said.<\/p>\n

“We gave him the time to grow into himself, his head as well as he was a bit hot, and he’s a sensible racehorse now.<\/p>\n

“He was always a clown last time, you couldn’t get him off his toes but today he swaggered around and was very relaxed with what he was doing.”<\/p>\n

Ellerton hopes Zoutori can be a player in the spring and the remainder of his three-year-old campaign will be about boosting his rating.<\/p>\n

The Flemington-based trainer said he would consider heading to Brisbane for the Queensland Guineas.<\/p>\n

“If you go to Queensland, it’s a quick turnaround for the spring, so I don’t know,” Ellerton said.<\/p>\n

“He won’t be going to Adelaide, so the Queensland Guineas might be something in the first week of June.<\/p>\n

“He needs to get his rating up near 100 to run in anything as a four-year-old in the spring.” -AAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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