EXOTIQUE MISS DEMOLISHES HER RIVALS

By Graham Potter | Wednesday, January 3, 2024

The three-year-old filly, Exotique Miss claimed her second career win in her seventh start when she ran rampant in a BM65 Handicap over 1500m at Eagle Farm on January 3 ... thrashing her five rivals by a winning margin which was officially recorded as 10.05 lengths.

The three kilogram claim of apprentice Tahlia Fenlon would have played some part in that result, but seeing Exotique Miss (the $1.55 favourite) stretching the field out at the line in such a rare manner ... the second horse was 10.05 lengths back and the rest trailed in at 10.44 lengths, 11.59 lengths, 12.58 lengths and 23.77 lengths ... well, a win just doesn’t come more comprehensive than that!

Just four starts earlier the Michael Nolan trained daughter of the 2016 Stradbroke winner Under The Louvre had shed her Maiden ticket over 1100m at Toowoomba and, in her two starts leading into this run she had finished second and third, both at Eagle Farm over 1400m and 1600m.

With this 1500m trip obviously sitting right in the middle of those two distances, you would have thought going into the race that trip might have been ideal for Exotique Miss ... but, even at the short price, what happened next nobody saw coming.

Not that there is too much to tell ... it was that clinical.

Exotique Miss landed in the lead ... had to be restrained a bit both early and down the back stretch when trying to race keenly ... dictated the speed at a comfortable gallop to suit herself until the approach to the home turn ... was then asked to quicken and, basically, put the result to bed long before the finish line, moving further and further away from her struggling rivals in the home straight.

“Exotique Miss ... a demolition job,” was the way race commentator Josh Fleming saw it.

It was just too easy.

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