Price Back In Town With Proliferate

Caulfield trainer Mick Price broke a three-year drought at the Flemington four-day carnival when Proliferate maintained his unbeaten streak in Thursday's Listed Myer Spring Fashion Stakes (1800m).

Jockey Michael Walker steered the son of More THan Ready into the box seat from barrier five before getting the lightly-raced colt to settle behind the early leader The Deep South.

Walker guided Proliferate through a run inside The Deep South before Proliferate knuckled down late, holding off the challengers to win his third race from as many starts.

"Mick said to me to save him for the final burst because we both know when he gets to the front he pulls up but he was going too easy," Walker said.

Price said Proliferate convinced him he could perform in tougher races as an Autumn three-year old with events such as the AJC Australian Derby well within the colt's range.

"He was actually bred to get a trip and he is a half (brother) to a filly who won the WATC Derby, Grand Journey," Price said.

"If you have a look at him in the yard, he is a real staying type of colt with a big long neck on him, clean winded.

"I think we'll put him out at Rockmount and he'll get to the AJC Derby route unless the owners jump up and down and want to run him in the Sandown Guineas but he is a horse wit a future as a winner."