Exhortation can come up trumps

Dermot Weld has made a solid start to the flat season and Exhortation can prove another for him in the thetote.com Median Auction Maiden at Dundalk tonight.

The son of Zamindar was well beaten on his only outing to date, at Leopardstown in September, but showed enough to warrant the vote in this company.

He set a strong gallop and there was never any possibility it could be maintained for all of the seven furlongs. From the furlong pole, Exhortation began to struggle and he eventually finished five lengths and two lengths third behind Akeed Mofeed and Athens.