Hello Mike out to spoil the Jay Is Jay Show

Caption: Hello Mike (Travis Elson) after winning the 2023 Group One Gold Bullion. He is back, aiming for a repeat performance in 2024. (Photo: Box 1 Photography)

By Pat McLeod

The Golden Greys Summer Carnival was supposed to be The Jay Is Jay Show, but another big name local ‘lead’ is threatening to steal that show.

Travis Elson has announced that reigning Group One Gold Bullion champion Hello Mike will not only be back to defend that crown, but is trialing in career-best form.

“I am aiming for Hello Mike to be back for the Gold Bullion,” Elson said, when also revealing on QGOLD night that kennel favourite Bear’s Bullet would be spelled.

“Hello Mike is going a little bit better than her (Bear’s Bullet) at the moment. So, that is the way I will probably lean and give her a spell.

“Hello Mike is going as good as last year. I have no doubt that if he would have run on this track tonight (QGOLD night) he would have picked Bear’s Bullet up with the times that he is trialing at the moment.

“First Hello Mike will target the Golden Ticket. He has been off for three months and he is trialing very nice.

“Of course, with Hello Mike, because he hasn’t been racing you can’t be confident, but he has won the race (the Gold Bullion) before and has run 29.49.

“I still believe he has that in him.”

The $375,000 Gold Bullion is the pinnacle of the Golden Greys Summer Carnival. Hello Mike claimed that mantle at the start of 2023 with a one-and-quarter-lengths win over Jay Is Jay.

The win was an emotional one for the entire Elson clan.

However, as 2023 progressed, the fortunes of Hello Mike and Jay Is Jay unfolded in vastly different ways.

Selena Zammit’s Jay Is Jay has gone on to greatness with major successes including victory in the Million Dollar Chase. (He was competing in The Phoenix as Chase newspaper went to an early Christmas print.)

Hello Mike has spent much of the year off-track, with just 14 starts after the Gold Bullion win for three wins.

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