Queensland trainer Tony Gollan on the cusp of another training milestone

The Australian

3 hours ago

Tony Gollan breaks training records for fun but the champion Queenslander is moving closer to climbing a peak he has never scaled before.
Gollan, who will score his 12th successive Brisbane training premiership this season, is eyeing off the new personal milestone of training 200 winners in the national title.
It is something he has never done before and, currently with 183 winners Australia-wide this season, it would be short odds he will raise his bat for 200 before the racing season winds up at the end of next month.
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It is an extraordinary effort with only Ciaron Maher, Chris Waller, the Hayes boys of Lindsay Park and Annabel and Rob Archibald stables training more winners so far this season.
Most of those mega stables have multiple training bases across various venues and different states, whereas Gollan has trained purely out of Eagle Farm until relatively recently when he opened a Gold Coast satellite stable.
Even by Gollan's lofty standards, the 2024/2025 season has been an incredible one and also featured dominant Group 1 wins with Antino in the Toorak Handicap and Doomben Cup.
Gollan now has a golden chance to score the final Group 1 of the racing season, Saturday's Tatt's Tiara (1400m) at Eagle Farm.
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His stable golden girl, Floozie, has been unbeaten for Gollan with four straight wins since he took over the training of the mare from Victorians Mick Price and Michael Kent Jr.
Floozie is a $4.50 second favourite to win the Tatt's Tiara, a race that eight-time Group 1 winner Gollan has never won before.
Floozie is a leading chance in Saturday's Group 1 Tatt's Tiara at Eagle Farm. Picture: Trackside Photography
It could also cap a fabulous winter carnival for Queenslanders on their home soil.
With Queensland wins to Cool Archie (Group 1 JJ Atkins) and Antino (Doomben Cup), a Floozie triumph in the Tatt's Tiara would give the Sunshine State its third Group 1 of its local carnival.
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There have been many years where Queensland winter carnival hopefuls have been overrun by the southern invaders … but not this year.
The last time Queensland produced three Group 1 winners at the winter carnival was in 2022 when Gypsy Goddess won the Queensland Oaks, Apache Chase the Kingsford Smith Cup and Startantes the Tatt's Tiara.
Before that, in 2014, River Lad won the Stradbroke Handicap, Tinto claimed the Queensland Oaks and Spirit Of Boom prevailed in the Doomben 10,000.