Eat My Trust firing
MATT Dunn needs to show patience with Eat My Trust and it’s something he isn’t having any trouble doing thanks to the gelding’s early success.
Eat My Trust shrugged off his current mid-race struggles to storm home and win Saturday’s QTIS Three-Year-Old Handicap (1400m) at the Gold Coast, finishing 1.3 lengths in front of nearest rival Denbern.
It was a third straight win for the horse who is unbeaten from the first two runs of his current preparation.
His other races consisted of a second at Doomben and the Gold Coast.
Murwillumbah-based Dunn said the slightly built horse was as good as any of his three-year-olds and would only get better once he develops more strength and fixes some mid-race blunders.
“He is doing a good job,” Dunn said.
“He is not an overly big horse – he is quite slight actually – but he has got a good finish.
“He is still learning how to race properly and still doing some funny things wrong at stages and he did it again (on Saturday). Once he figures it out he has probably got a decent future.
“He just has to learn to settle and relax a bit better.
“He is a horse that is probably going to run a bit further but he can’t go and do that until he learns how to settle better mid-race.”
Dunn said Eat My Trust would likely come into his own as a four-year-old and he was happy to wait for him to hit his peak if he was going to keep winning along the way.
“After the last prep I tried to get him to strengthen up a bit which he has probably achieved,” Dunn said.
“He is a bit better but he still needs to get stronger again. He is a horse that won’t come into his own until he is maybe a four-year-old.
“We just have to be patient with him which is not hard when he can win three out of five.
Dunn is considering testing Eat My Trust in an 1800m race at Rosehill on July 1.
“It could possibly suit him,” Dunn said.
“It might be a bit far for him but he is probably up to that grade.”