THE favourite won like a good horse should, yet despite Exosphere’s success in the Group 1 Golden Rose at Rosehill, trainer John O’Shea was troubled by the performances of his other two starters in the $1 million 1,400-metre event for three-year-olds.

“I’m perplexed by the other two,” said O’Shea of Holler and Shards who were last and second last in the eight horse race. “Exosphere is a super horse but to tell you the truth I was watching the other two (drop out) at the end. There is something not right there. They worked unbelievably on Tuesday and that was not them. I would like them swabbed because we can’t be sure what might have happened to them,” O’Shea told the stewards.