Educate learning on the run with Enver Jusufovic
TRAINER Enver Jusufovic knows he has a progressive type on his hands in the form of his three-year-old Educate, and he’s not putting a ceiling on how far the unbeaten runner can rise.
The gelding was a stylish winner at Racing.com Park three-weeks-ago as the third favourite and quickly put itself on the radar of punters after pushing out strongly to the line.
Smart 3YO Educate teaches his rivals a lesson in the opener at https://t.co/Ga3GHuaAKJ Park. Results: https://t.co/xGF1J1eHKs pic.twitter.com/hFLnrnskUM
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Educate’s trainer Enver Jusufovic was pleased that his elect was able to showcase what it’s capable of on debut.
“It was a good run,” Jusufovic told HorseBetting.com.au.
Enver Jusufovic’s 3yo debutant EDUCATE (MASTER OF DESIGN) wins at Pakenham. Scores a #VOBIS bonus too! An Adelaide Magic Millions buy pic.twitter.com/GiLLyR6q2Z
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The trainer is undecided as to whether Educate will run in the Sportsbet Racing Form benchmark 64 at Pakenham on Thursday night after drawing a wide barrier.
Protecting his lightly-raced gelding is the number one priority in its opening preparation.
“I haven’t decided whether I’m going to run or not,” Jusufovic said.
“I’ve got to study the race and see what my thoughts are … he’s drawn wide in a big field, but his work on the track has been really good.”
The trainer believes if Educate does take to the field in the eighth race on the card at Pakenham, it has the capability to maintain its unblemished status, despite coming up against much more seasoned campaigners like Murphy and Ocean Grove.
“He’s a progressive horse I think with a little bit of a future, so if I decide to run, ability-wise, he’ll run well.
It’s just a matter of doing a race plan I suppose, otherwise I may wait another week.”
In its maiden win Educate toppled two much more fancied rivals in the form of Preemptive and Zephora, displaying why the gelding has been rated so highly internally.
While stopping short of announcing his horse as a star of the future, Jusufovic has expectations his gelding has the class to become a progressive type.
“Probably something like that it’s hard to determine,” the trainer said when asked if he sees Educate becoming a group horse in the future.
“At this stage he’s been a slow maturer, (but) this preparation he’s really come on in leaps and bounds.
“But to do that he’s probably going to have to improve a lot more.”