“He went super first-up, second-up he was raw, green, and got it all wrong in a small field at Doomben and in his third start, he shouldn’t have been there,” Busuttin said.
“He’d had enough, he raced like a horse that had had enough and it wasn’t a true indication of the horse, but it is hard to turn up your nose up at $2 million when you’re up there.
“In hindsight, we should have brought him home after his Doomben run.”
Busuttin said Sunsource had spelled well and had trialled nicely ahead of his return run on Saturday.
He said Saturday’s outing was all about education for the spring and was a nice time to have the colt back in work, while along the way there is some nice prize money to be won, including Saturday’s race worth $150,000.
“At his first two starts, he didn’t know what he was doing,” Busuttin said.
“It’s all very well saying you have a spring horse, but you have to teach them to race and if he is to be a spring horse, he has to win a couple of races and he’ll want to win that race on Saturday.
“Don’t worry, everything is geared towards spring, but he’ll tell us if that is where he’s going.”
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