{"id":169314,"date":"2025-06-09T04:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T04:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/169314\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T04:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T04:12:11","slug":"tony-gollan-galloper-set-to-have-stradbroke-handicap-hopes-dashed-by-queensland-prizemoney-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/169314\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Gollan galloper set to have Stradbroke Handicap hopes dashed by Queensland prizemoney rule"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the third successive year, Tony Gollan<\/a> is resigned to missing the Stradbroke Handicap<\/a> field with a horse he felt could have given Queensland’s greatest race a mighty shake.<\/p>\n

Gollan narrowly missed qualifying Antino (2023) and Freedom Rally (2024) and both of those horses instead were deployed to win the Wayne Wilson Mile on Stradbroke day.<\/p>\n

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It appears he is likely to be in the same boat with Transatlantic<\/a>, who Queensland’s champion trainer has long felt is a hugely talented galloper capable of making a Stradbroke mark.<\/p>\n

Bookmakers rate Transatlantic highly in Stradbroke markets, elevating the four-year-old gelding to be an $11 chance after his win in the Listed Spear Chief Handicap at Eagle Farm last Saturday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, it appears Transatlantic is likely to miss the Stradbroke and he is stuck at No.33 in the latest ballot order and outside the final 18-horse field even accounting for the attrition rate above him in the order.<\/p>\n

There is a racing rule that means that Transatlantic wasn’t eligible for a Stradbroke weight penalty after his win in the Spear Chief.<\/p>\n

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In Queensland, the conditions are that Transatlantic was able to be moved up the Stradbroke ballot order but could not be re-handicapped for last Saturday’s win.<\/p>\n

He could have been potentially re-handicapped if he had won a race that offered $95,000 or more to the winner \u2013 but the Spear Chief first prizemoney was $92,000.<\/p>\n

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Gollan has been left disappointed as he feels Transatlantic, with Angela Jones booked to ride, could have given the Stradbroke a proper crack.<\/p>\n

But he said “rules are rules”.<\/p>\n

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“Every year, a horse seems to be left out of the Stradbroke that would have made it a better race,” Gollan said.<\/p>\n

“But at the end of the day, rules are rules and I did have 12 months to try to qualify him for the Stradbroke.<\/p>\n

“I knew things were probably stacked against me when he didn’t win The Gateway last December (which offered the winner a Stradbroke golden ticket).<\/p>\n

“I guess even if he got a weight penalty from his win last weekend, he still wasn’t a certainty to make the field.”<\/p>\n

With Transatlantic unlikely to get a run, Jones will ride three-year-old filly Spicy Martini<\/a>, which qualified for the Stradbroke after winning the Fred Best Classic last Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The Stradbroke final field will be declared at 10am on Tuesday and fringe contenders will then know whether they have got a start or will be left outside the field and potentially slated as one of the five emergencies.<\/p>\n

Lindsay Park sprinter War Machine<\/a> is the $2.80 Stradbroke favourite and they also have the second pick in betting, Rise At Dawn<\/a> ($8) who it is intended will back-up from finishing fifth behind Joliestar in last Saturday’s Group 1 Kingsford Smith Cup.<\/p>\n

Rise At Dawn is currently outside the likely field in the ballot order but there are several above him who will not be acceptors on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Rise At Dawn was not totally guaranteed a Stradbroke start but co-trainer Ben Hayes said there was no point worrying about it.<\/p>\n