Zoutori Resumes With Group 2 Win At Flemington

After a disappointing end to his previous preparation, promising gelding has made an impressive start to his spring campaign at Flemington.

Zoutori resumed in Saturday’s Group Two Bobbie Lewis Quality (1200m) and powered home under near the outside fence in the straight-track sprint to land his first stakes victory.

It was the four-year-old gelding’s first start since failing in two stakes races during the , including the (1600m), having won three-straight races before that in Melbourne.

“Things went a bit pear-shaped for him in the last campaign,” co-trainer said.

“We took him to Brisbane and it was pretty fruitless so it’s good to pick up the pieces today.

“He just didn’t handle the right-handed way of going (in Brisbane). I thought he ran well enough in his first run up there and then Craig Williams just said he wanted to turn left the whole way up there in his next start.

“He may well also not be a miler.”

Ellerton, who trains in partnership with , was delighted with how Zoutori was going leading into Saturday’s return and he opted to test him in the Bobbie Lewis (1200m) rather than run him in an 1100m handicap at Caulfield next week.

Zoutori, who firmed from $7.50 in to $5, defeated ($10) by two lengths with last year’s winner ($21) another long head away third.

Ellerton believes off the back of that impressive performance he will likely keep Zoutori to sprints, with Stakes over the same course and distance among the options for his next start.

“I had my reservations whether he was going to be fast enough today and he put paid to those reservations pretty quickly,” Ellerton said.

Zoutori took his overall record to five wins from 14 starts, with three of those wins coming first-up from a spell.

“He is on the way up and he really put them to the sword today,” Meech said.

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