Picture: Darren Winningham
Queensland Summer season Carnival begins with premier coaching capturing for characteristic win with 4
In an entrée to summer season racing options, the summer season carnival in Southeast Queensland begins on Saturday at Sunshine Coast and Tony Gollan’s 4 runners dominate the highest of the market within the Swiss Ace Plate.
Lining up within the $125,000 characteristic is the steady’s latest acquisition Cannonball, black-type performer All That Pizzazz, constant five-year-old and race favorite Golden Growth, and 2023 Swiss Ace winner Nettuno.
Gollan has all the time had excessive hopes for Nettuno and was readying for an thrilling preparatoin with the son of I Am Invincible final summer season however whereas operating effectively one other win took one other 9 months to materialise with a victory over 1000-metres in open firm at Sunshine Coast on a heavy observe in July.
“It’s a good workforce to kick us off,” Gollan mentioned.
“Nettuno can carry out first-up and final begin at Caulfield behind Suggestion, he simply didn’t deal with the observe too effectively,” he added in reference to the third inserting within the Group 3 The Heath (1100m) on August 31.
“He has a supreme file at Sunshine Coast over 1000-metre races – three wins in three and he and Golden Growth are positively the highest seeds.”
Gollan resisted gelding Nettuno within the lead-up to the final 12 months’s summer season, however blended outcomes since noticed the change enacted through the horse’s break earlier than the winter carnival.
Again to the Sunshine Coast, the gap and the probability of a rain affected observe has Nettuno rated a $5 likelihood in betting throughout markets.
“From barrier one he maps superbly and might lob in behind them and do like final 12 months when Zoustyle was attacked up entrance, and he was there prepared to return out and put them away. This wreaks of that taking place once more.”
Barely edged in bookmakers markets at $4.60 by stablemate Golden Growth, his second inserting to subsequent group one winner Mornington Glory at Moonee Valley within the Listed Carlyon Stakes (1000m) has his coach eager to see this five-year-old be within the end and add to his good file of 5 wins and 6 placings in 14 begins.
“The journey away to Melbourne has actually introduced him on and he’s stretching out like a pleasant horse,” he mentioned.
Cannonball ($12) got here to Gollan’s steady from Snowden Racing and has since been gelded after ending final at Hawkesbury in a listed race in Might whereas All That Pizzazz ($9.50) impressed him sufficient this week to start out on Saturday.
“I assumed his work within the leap out at Doomben on November 6 terrific and I assumed his work on Tuesday was nice however barrier 10 makes it tougher,” Gollan mentioned of All That Pizzaz.
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