Father/son team Robert and Tim Britton agree Wheel And Go is their best chance of continuing a proud family tradition in Friday night’s Group 1 Queensland Cup Final (710m) at Albion Park.

‘Son of a gun’ Tim Britton, 33, is hopeful of celebrating his first G1 victory in the race his father has won on three occasions, with superstar trio Nellie Noodles (2010), Fanta Bale (2017) and Tornado Tears (2018).

The Brittons have qualified three finalists with potent staying pedigrees for the $175,000 to-the-winner Cup (race 6, 7.46pm).

Bookends Play Nice (box 1) and Dirt Farmer (box 8) are full brothers to the great Tornado Tears, while Wheel And Go (box 5) is a son of 2018 Queensland Cup finalist Benali.

“Wheel And Go has the most ability of the three.
I just wish he’d drawn the red box again.”

“It’s completely different this time because those other years I’ve gone in with either the favourite or second favourite,” said Rob Britton, who owns the trio with wife Mary.

“I think Nellie Noodles might have been up against Dashing Corsair, but they were all great chances.

“This time I really think you can throw a blanket over the lot of them.

“If you look at the times from the heats, there’s not a lot between them.

“Palawa King has an amazing middle and he looked like a champion when he won his heat (41.83sec), but he ran nearly the same time as the week before when he finished third (41.77sec) in the Super Stayers.

“They’re very even and it will come down to who gets the best run, so having three in the race is a bonus.”

WATCH: WHEEL AND GO (B1) completed a G1 Queensland Cup heat double for Tim Britton, displaying his affinity for the rails alley in a dominant on-pace 42.05sec victory.

The Brittons drew box one in three of the five heats, with Wheel And Go (42.05sec) and Play Nice (42.07sec) both taking advantage of the rails alley in their heat victories, while the most fancied, First Picked ($1.85), ran fifth.

After again drawing ‘the red’, Play Nice is the shortest of the Britton trio in Sportsbet’s market at $6, with Wheel And Go (box 5) at $8.50 and Dirt Farmer (box 8) $18.

First reserve Fast Milkman, a litter brother to Wheel And Go, is $17.

“I’ve run a few placings in Group 1 races, so it would be nice to win one in my own name,” said Tim Britton.

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“Racing them up in Queensland for the last month has really paid off. This was the goal and having three in the race is better than one, but I’m not confident.

“Wheel And Go has the most ability of the three. I just wish he’d drawn the red box again.

“Play Nice wants ‘the red’, it’s just whether he’s good enough.”

Rob Britton concurs that Wheel And Go is the family’s best chance of adding yet another feature distance trophy to the mantelpiece.

“Wheel And Go mightn’t be a genuine stayer but he has a touch of brilliance,” he said.

“He’s very leggy and tends to get a bit tangled up in fields, but if he does get a clear run from box five, he’s capable of breaking them up.

“Of our three, he’s still the one I like the best.”

Victoria has a fourth finalist in Ariarne Bale (box 4), trained by Daniel Gibbons, a 42.38sec heat winner that’s rated a $6 chance to snare her second G1 title, having won the Fanta Bale Super Stayers during the Australian Cup Carnival.