Trainer Rob Heathcote is bracing for an emotional long weekend as his two Group 1 winners Rothfire and Startantes bid for Magic Millions starts at the Gold Coast on January 13.

She is small in stature, but Rob Heathcote says Startantes is big on heart.

Hinchinbrook juvenile Unite And Conquer set the bar high for spring two-year-olds in Melbourne when he led home a Magic Millions trifecta in the Listed Maribyrnong Trial Stakes at Flemington on Saturday.

Rough weekend all around the country last weekend, Brisbane included. So we’ll just leave it at that and move on.

We enjoyed a winning day north of the Tweed last weekend with Double Impact doing it easily pretty early on in the program to give us a bit to play with.