Whiskey Allround set to trial

Sunday 21 July 2013, 3:31pm

Silver Slipper runner-up Whiskey Allround is scheduled to run in a barrier trial at Doomben on Tuesday as trainer Tony Gollan sifts through his spring carnival options.

Whiskey Allround won his first three starts in Queensland before Gollan took him to Sydney where he finished a close second to Sweet Idea in the Silver Slipper Stakes at Rosehill on March 2.

The gelding's connections decided not to pay the Golden Slipper late entry fee and sent him for a spell after he finished eighth to Criterion in the Todman Stakes on March 23.

"Obviously there are races like the San Domenico we'll look at in Sydney or we may take our time with him and head straight to Melbourne," Gollan said.

"I'm really happy with him and all the indications from his trackwork are very good."

Gollan's stable stalwarts Temple Of Boom and his younger half-brother Spirit Of Boom are well advanced in their preparations.

Galaxy winner Temple Of Boom will be set for a first up tilt at the Group Three Auries Star Handicap (1200m) at Flemington on August 10 after he won an Eagle Farm jump-out last Tuesday.

"He'll have another one in a fortnight and it'll be the first time in 12 months he's had two jump-outs heading into a first-up run which is what he needs," Gollan said.

Temple Of Boom hasn't raced since finishing last to Your Song in the Group One BTC Cup (1200m) at Eagle Farm on May 11.

"We scoped him immediately after that race and found he was full of mucus caused by a lung infection which we've cleaned up," Gollan said.

Temple Of Boom will compete in Melbourne in the early season sprint races to capitalise on the likelihood of wet tracks.

"It's critical for an old horse like him to find nice, soft going and hopefully when we get to Melbourne he'll have the sting out of the tracks," he said.

Spirit Of Boom will resume in the Group Two Shorts (1100m) at Randwick on September 21 before he heads to Melbourne.

"I'll keep his races spaced and his last run in Melbourne will be the Salinger then three weeks into the Winterbottom in Perth which will be his grand final," Gollan said.

– AAP

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