A Winter Carnival campaign is on the cards for promising three-year-old Retrospect following his win in today’s $104,625 BMW “Gran Tourismo” Magic Millions Maiden Plate at the Gold Coast.

Group One winning trainer Rex Lipp has a good opinion of the son of Lucky Owners and he thinks he can provide him with more feature wins later in the year.

“The plan has come off,” Lipp beamed from the winner’s stall. “That was the race we wanted.”

“We set him for this race. If he had have won the lead up we would have gone to the other race – for three-year-olds and I think the 1400 metres of that would have suited him better.”

“I think he could be a winter carnival horse. He will run 1400 and 1600 metres.”

“We might ease him up now and have a look at the carnival.”

“He’s a Queensland Guineas type horse. He’s a miler – definitely a miler – on his breeding he’s a miler as well.”

“He may have one more run – but we might go to the paddock as well.”

Lipp said he was confident throughout, knowing his representative was in good hands.

“When you’ve got G Boss on you’ve got the best jockey in the land on,” he noted.

“He’s a carnival rider and this is a carnival. Glen has always ridden horses for me well over the years, so I was happy to have him on board.”

A $10,000 bargain buy for his connections as a yearling from the Magic Millions, Retrospect has boosted his earnings now to about $64,000 from just four runs.

A son of former champion Hong Kong galloper Lucky Owners (Danehill), Retrospect is the first runner and winner for his dam Rainbow Joy.

A daughter of Spectrum, Rainbow Joy is a twice city winner from the 1990 Magic Millions 2YO Classic winner Dancer’s Joy.

The BMW “GranTourismo” Maiden Plate is the first of 10 races run exclusively for Magic Millions graduates at the Gold Coast this afternoon.

The race day is the richest in Queensland with $4.6 million in prizemoney.