Champion trainer Tony Gollan has been unveiled as one of four new inductees into the Queensland Racing Hall of Fame.\u00a0<\/p>\n
To be held as a part of the Sportsbet Queensland Thoroughbred Awards gala lunch on October 12 at The Star Brisbane, the state\u2019s premier trainer will be inducted into the Hall of Fame alongside Michael Pelling (Jockey) and Chief De Beers (Horse).<\/p>\n
A fourth inductee will also be announced at the awards ceremony.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Born and raised in Toowoomba, the son of champion local trainer Darryl Gollan commenced his career at age 20 in 1999, claiming his maiden victory thanks to Carbon Shadow at Clifford Park in July of that year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The trajectory of Gollan\u2019s career changed forever in 2003, with the purchase of a Eureka Stud filly named Temple Spirit, who would go on to win eight races and over $130,000 in prize money for the up-and-coming trainer.\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, it was her first two progeny \u2013 Temple Of Boom and Spirit Of Boom \u2013 that launched the Gollan name into stardom, combining for 20 wins, three Group 1s and more than $4 million in prize money.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On the back of his first Group 1 success through Temple Of Boom\u2019s victory in The Galaxy at Randwick in 2012, Tony made the move to Eagle Farm, claiming his first Metropolitan Trainers\u2019 Premiership in the 2013\/14 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In a career that has netted more than 2,000 victories, Gollan is now an eight-time Group 1-winning trainer, with both \u2018Boom Brothers\u2019, Vega One, Krone, Jonker and Antino having delivered him the ultimate success across his glittering career. \u00a0<\/p>\n
In recent years, Gollan has re-written the record books in Queensland, setting a new benchmark for statewide wins in 2022\/23 with 194 victories, as well as a metropolitan record (147) in 2023\/24.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the season just gone, Gollan claimed his 12th straight Metropolitan Trainers\u2019 Premiership, and looks poised to claim continue his stranglehold on the Jim Atkins Trainer of the Year Award at this year\u2019s ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Champion trainer Tony Gollan has been unveiled as one of four new inductees into the Queensland Racing Hall…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-464101","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\/115295410320096360","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464101","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=464101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}