Mick Price hopes to confirm a Doomben Cup start for dual Group One winner Heart Of Dreams following the gelding's Queensland debut in the Hollindale Stakes.The Melbourne trainer has sent Heart Of Dreams and his older brother Rightfully Yours north with both to run at Saturday's Gold Coast meeting.Heart Of Dreams runs over 1800 metres in the Group Two Hollindale while Rightfully Yours will have a second attempt at the Listed Prime Minister's Cup (1300m).A third to Hay List in the Group One All-Ag
Mick Price hopes to confirm a Doomben Cup start for dual Group One winner Heart Of Dreams following the gelding's Queensland debut in the Hollindale Stakes.
The Melbourne trainer has sent Heart Of Dreams and his older brother Rightfully Yours north with both to run at Saturday's Gold Coast meeting.
Heart Of Dreams runs over 1800 metres in the Group Two Hollindale while Rightfully Yours will have a second attempt at the Listed Prime Minister's Cup (1300m).
A third to Hay List in the Group One All-Aged Stakes (1400m) at Randwick on April 23 followed Heart Of Dreams' fourth failure over 2000 metres behind Shocking in the Group One Australian Cup at Flemington in March.
The son of Show A Heart hasn't won beyond 1800 metres but Price isn't giving up and has aimed him at next month's Group One Doomben Cup (2020m).
In his other attempts, Heart of Dreams has finished second to Whobegotyou in the 2000 metre Yalumba Stakes (2000m) at Caulfield, seventh to So You Think in the 2009 Cox Plate (2040m) at Moonee Valley and fourth to Zipping in last year's Australian Cup.
Price is delighted with the way Heart Of Dreams has come through his campaign so far.
"He had a little freshen-up following his Australian Cup run and he pulled up in good order after he had a hard run on a heavy track in the All-Aged Stakes behind Hay List," he said.
"I thought he should have run second in the All-Aged. Following Alverta wasn't the right thing to do as Hinchinbrook was wound right up while we were being held up."
Price believes the Hollindale Stakes is the right distance for Heart Of Dreams who claimed his two wins at elite level in the Underwood Stakes (1800m) at Caulfield and Australian Guineas (1600m) at Flemington in 2009.
"I think 1800 metres is his right distance but he's going on to the Doomben Cup after this run," Price said.
Price isn't concerned about sending Rightfully Yours into the Prime Minister's Cup first-up.
The six-year-old hasn't raced since finishing seventh to Temple Of Boom in the Listed Swisse Vitamins Stakes (1100m) at Flemington in November.
"He's had a fetlock operation but he trialled well when he won at Cranbourne a few weeks ago," Price said.
"He always races best fresh and he seems to be over the joint problems.
"He's in good order but I think he might have been slightly better the day he lost the Prime Minister's Cup on protest."
Rightfully Yours was first past the post in the 2009 Prime Minister's Cup but lost the race to local sprinter Mr Hornblower.
He later went on to finish fifth to Court Command in the Group Three BTC Sprint (1350m) at Doomben that year before finishing with the tailenders in the Group One Stradbroke Handicap at Eagle Farm.
Price has ruled out another Stradbroke tilt and has booked Damien Oliver to partner both Heart Of Dreams and Rightfully Yours in Queensland.