Success Important for Gollan’s star
PREMIER trainer Tony Gollan always loves winning races for the Huddy family but admits he has a special reason to chase success at this time of the year.
Gollan will saddle top sprinter Most Important ($7.50), who will be having his final start for this campaign in the $100,000 Sunshine Coast Cup (1400m) tomorrow.
Most Important is owned by Linda Huddy and won the summer triple crown in 2016.
He has not been as successful this summer but did win the Listed Lough Neagh Stakes (1350m) at Doomben last month and was second to Care To Think in the Buffering Quality (1350m).
At his most recent start, Most Important was fourth behind Care To Think in the Magic Millions Cup (1400m) on the Gold Coast after having little luck.
Gollan has had a lot of success for Linda Huddy and her husband Graham, most recently with Most Important’s full sister Of The Day at Doomben last week.
“Of the Day was coming back from stakes company and it was obviously easier but I have no doubt she can win a black-type race,” Gollan said.
Of The Day and Most Important are by I Am Invincible out of Marmalade Sky, making Of the Day already a valuable broodmare proposition.
Meanwhile, trainer Barry Lockwood is confident his filly Show Us Ya Diamonds will prove she has nothing to fear from Sydney’s best next month when she steps out at the Sunshine Coast tomorrow.
The unbeaten filly, the $3.60 favourite for the 3YO Handicap (1000m), will be having her third start at the Sunshine Coast track.
Lockwood believes she can confirm a trip to Sydney where her aim is the Inglis Sprint (1100m) at Warwick Farm on February 10.
“I know there is talk of some of Sydney’s best three-yearolds running in it but that is the way we are heading,” he said.
“A faint heart never won a fair maiden. We will give them something to think about.”