{"id":427636,"date":"2025-09-16T01:08:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T01:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/427636\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T01:08:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T01:08:14","slug":"mccolm-eyes-off-magic-millions-with-pareto-racing-queensland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/427636\/","title":{"rendered":"McColm eyes off Magic Millions with Pareto :: Racing Queensland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Glenn Davis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trainer David McColm is hoping to target the glamour Magic Millions Carnival over the summer with stable star Far Too Easy and heir apparent Pareto.<\/p>\n<p>Far Too Easy, the reigning Kosciuszko champion in Sydney, is back in work following an extended two-month break while Pareto will line up in the Benchmark 75 Handicap over 1200 metres at Doomben on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe decided to give Far Too Easy a longer break and he\u2019s just come back into work,\u201d McColm said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe going to take him along slowly and target the Magic Millions but we\u2019ll see how he\u2019s going closer to the time.<\/p>\n<p>Far Too Easy hasn\u2019t raced since tailing off last in the Listed Glasshouse Handicap at the Sunshine Coast in July.<\/p>\n<p>McColm was formerly base at Murwillumbah but has been based at the Gold Coast for three months which made Far Too Easy ineligible to defend his Kosciuszko crown.<\/p>\n<p>The trainer also has a big opinion of Pareto who like Far Too Easy dislikes hard tracks.<\/p>\n<p>Pareto was a $150,000 yearling buy at the Magic Millions sales at the Gold Coast but is not QTIS eligible.<\/p>\n<p>The son of Pierata has had seen starts for two wins and as many placings and is coming off a last start third to the Tony Gollan-trained Surprise Honey in an 1100-metre Class 2 at Ipswich on September 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Glenn Davis Trainer David McColm is hoping to target the glamour Magic Millions Carnival over the summer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-427636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115211305234611737","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}