Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX
Quality young pacer Xceptional Arma is on target to contest upcoming $50,000 feature events for three-year-old fillies after impressing with an easy victory in the 1730m The Nullarbor The Road To Riches Pace at Gloucester Park on Friday night.
The Colin Brown-trained Xceptional Arma won the Gold Bullion for two-year-old fillies in April 2023, and she will be hard to beat in the Gold Bullion for three-year-olds on April 5. She is also expected to contest the Diamond Classic on May 17, and is sure to be one of the main fancies for the WA Oaks later in the year.
Xceptional Arma was the $2.40 favourite when she began from the outside barrier in the field of seven in Friday night’s event in which she was driven with great confidence by Maddison Brown, who was happy to race in the breeze, with $13 chance Princess Katie setting a solid pace.
Brown sent Xceptional Arma to the front 300m from home and the filly won by more than two lengths from the $3.20 second fancy Lenora Jane, who finished solidly from fifth at the bell.
Xceptional Arma (by American Ideal) has already amassed $278,358 from eleven wins and five placings from 20 starts.