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News.com.au
14-05-2025
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Wet Doomben track the key to Tony Gollan's Hidden Wealth in Group 1 Doomben 10,000
With no disrespect to Hidden Wealth, he is probably no Spirit Of Boom. But with the prospect of a rain-affected track on Saturday, the sprinter will get a golden chance to follow in the hoofprints of one of Tony Gollan 's greatest horses and score the Doomben 10,000. Spirit Of Boom won the Doomben 10,000 back in 2014 and the two-time Group 1 -winning galloper helped put former Toowoomba boy Gollan on the map. Spirit Of Boom was a $4.80 chance when defeating half-brother Temple Of Boom in 2014 but fast forward 11 years and Hidden Wealth is a $13 chance to score the 10,000. • Hidden Wealth's record is nothing to be sneezed at, having won half of his 18 starts including a triumph at Group 3 level when winning the George Moore Stakes on a heavy track at Doomben last November. This will be his first try at Group 1 level but Gollan believes a heavy track will bring him right into the race. There is the prospect of a significantly rain-affected Doomben track on Saturday given the amount of rain south-east Queensland has copped in recent times and the fact there is more rain on the way in Brisbane this week. Hidden Wealth wins the last on the Gold Coast where we see both @TommyBerry21 and @tonygollan snag a double! ✌ï¸� — SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) January 17, 2025 'It is his first go at this sort of level and a really wet track would be to his liking,' Gollan said. 'It would really bring him right into the race. 'It is good to have Tommy Berry on as he knows the horse so well and I loved to see him draw well (barrier two). 'It's a pretty good Doomben 10,000 and it's a race with a stack of speed in it. 'I can't fault the horse, it's just a matter whether he can handle this level of racing.' • Doomben 10,000 tips, runner-by-runner form analysis Hidden Wealth's most recent run – when starting a $6.50 chance in the Group 2 Victory Stakes and finishing 13th – was a train wreck. He was slow away but then surged around them wide and with no cover and was entitled to be out of petrol tickets a long way from home. 'It was a forget run,' Gollan said. 'He stepped away muddling and then just drove around them, three-wide and no cover on a day where there was no advantage to be three-wide facing the breeze.' Gollan also has Zarastro ($26) in the Doomben 10,000 but he wants the opposite of Hidden Wealth. Zarastro is not much chop on a heavy track. @tonygollan | @BrisRacingClub — SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) November 30, 2024 Meanwhile, Gollan said his best horse Antino had 'pulled up great' from last Saturday's stunning Hollindale Stakes romp and was primed to tangle with Pride Of Jenni in Saturday week's Doomben Cup. 'He paraded a little bit on the fresh side last Saturday, so there is good improvement to come,' Gollan said. 'The fitness base is there and that run will bring him on substantially. 'You are going to see a horse who is in really, really good shape for the Doomben Cup.' If either horse wins the Cup, the BRC will shout every adult on course a free XXXX beer.
News.com.au
02-05-2025
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Tony Gollan says Freedom Rally is the ‘forgotten horse' in a very competitive Victory Stakes at Eagle Farm
Tony Gollan has scored the Victory Stakes with a pair of Group 1 stars, but struggles to remember such a big and competitive field with as much depth as will be on show on Saturday. Temple Of Boom (2014) and Antino (last year) have claimed the Victory for Queensland's champion trainer but both had to beat eight and seven rivals respectively. A full field of 16 plus one emergency were declared on Wednesday declared for the Group 2 Victory which is Queensland's traditional winter carnival pipe-opener for the sprinters at Eagle Farm. As Gollan declared one of his four runners was the forgotten contender in the field, he lauded the strength and depth of Saturday's edition of the 1200m sprint which has several contenders including Gollan's Hidden Wealth vying for favouritism. 'Some years going back in time, it was a soft-option weight-for-age race,' Gollan said. 'But this year it's a very good race and this would be as big a Victory Stakes field as we have seen for some time. 'Often there have been eight runners, so it is really a show of the depth of what this carnival has got this year. 'I think there's going to be a good bit of pressure in it and I can't recall a Victory Stakes with such a big field and with so depth. 'It's a weight-for-age race but it will be run somewhat like a handicap. 'There will be enough pressure in it to break up the field, it's a really good start to the carnival.' Hidden Wealth, resuming after last being seen scoring a $1.5m sprint on Magic Millions day, is considered Gollan's leading contender at $5.50 in betting. However, Gollan believes Freedom Rally is well poised to spring an upset at $16. Two starts ago, Freedom Rally finished two lengths off Mr Brightside in the Group 1 Futurity Stakes over 1400m at Caulfield in February. • 'If you look at the four runners of ours, there are probably two runners which stand out,' Gollan said 'Freedom Rally has obviously been to a good level and having him back at home, at Eagle Farm, I think he is the forgotten horse in the race. 'It could be a bit short for him, but he has freshened up nicely. 'Hidden Wealth is a horse on the rise, doing everything right. 'This could be a breakout carnival for him. 'Out of the four, they are my two that probably look like they could go to a good level or above.' Gollan has King Kapa ($15) and Cannonball ($51) rounding out his four-strong attack on the Victory. The top trainer also has a leading contender in the Group 2 Queensland Guineas, with Boomtown Boss and apprentice jockey Emily Lang striving for their third consecutive win. Gollan said the Guineas was a long-range target but there is also the potential for him to try to qualify for the Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap later in the carnival. 'He is such an improving horse and, don't forget, he went into his first-up run without a trial,' Gollan said. 'I think he is spot on for the weekend. 'After Saturday, does he go back to a Fred Best Classic to try to get a golden ticket into a Stradbroke, I'm not sure? 'I have always seen him as a Guineas type horse and Saturday is going to tell me exactly what I do with him going forward. 'He's out to a mile for the first time, but you would be brave to say he wouldn't run it, the way he's been racing.'
