Zavateri got into a barging match with the much bigger AE and would probably have won (or gone very close) without getting involved in that – the trainer said he would need the run so he would be the one I would take out of the race.
Hopefully this race puts pay to any further thought that AE is a miler – he still pulled too much in behind early on and just kept on without looking like a horse that wants any further than 7F.
For me they need to drop him back to 6F (or even 5F eventually) and potentially let him roll along on the front rather than try to fight him to settle and waste his energies…….it also might just be that he was a very forward mature two year old that hasn’t done as much as his contemporaries from two to three.