Respected Brisbane trainer Barry Lockwood has lauded the efforts of his staff to keep his stable ticking along at a high level despite his personal health troubles in recent years.

Self-confessed battler David McColm will have a final roll of the dice to earn a golden ticket into next week’s Stradbroke Handicap when Far Too Easy runs at Eagle Farm on Saturday.

Murwillumbah trainer David McColm is clinging to hope but concedes his Stradbroke Handicap ambitions with Far Too Easy are hanging by a thread.

Trainer and jockey quotes following the Listed Australian Turf Club Trophy won by Fifteen Rounds at Sunshine Coast on Saturday.