Flemington Preview: Mathrick Has No Cause For Concern

CRANBOURNE trainer Shawn Mathrick’s sprinter Cause For Concern has been one of the finds of winter racing winning having won three of his last four starts despite the trainer believing he’s nowhere near his peak.

The only time he tasted defeat was at the hands of the gifted Renosu in the Creswick Stakes.

Cause For Concern has had his last three starts at Flemington and returns to that track over 1200 metres in the Group 3 Aurie’s Star Handicap (1200m).

Cause For Concern’s last start win was against his own age group over 1400 metres.

He’s now four and takes on some smart sprinters in the Aurie’s Star such as It’sourtime, General Beau, Zethus and Dance To Dubai.

Mathrick said to Racing.Com during the week that in his view based on his trackwork Cause For Concern had taken his game to another level this week.

Mathrick said Cause For Concern had finally learnt to attack the line something he hadn’t been doing in his races.

Mathrick believes that if the sprinter has that aspect under control he could find the half a second he needed to be able to compete at the elite level.

He said that if Cause For Concern came out and did what he thought he could do a slot in The Everest is something he would love.

PlayUp has Cause For Concern as a $3.70 favourite. It’sourtime is second favourite at $4.