GOLD COAST trainer Noel Doyle is confident in Celtic Dancer's future to set some lofty targets.

Celtic Dancer ($3.50) was able to hold off a late bid by Hidden Treasure ($15) in the St Margaret's School Handicap (1500m).

It was a good performance by Celtic Dancer but all the post-race discussion centred on the extraordinary fall by apprentices Mitchell Speers and Luke Rolls in the home straight.

It will never be known if Fillydelphia ($1.70) was going to win her fourth straight race.

Certainly the three-year-old was looming when Speers lost his balance and fell at the 300m but Celtic Dancer would have been hard to catch.

Doyle is going to give Celtic Dancer a short break and is thinking about to a trip to Melbourne for a brief campaign.

"We have to see what races suit down there and there is some chance he will go to Melbourne. But our main focus is on the Magic Millions Trophy race at the Gold Coast in January," Doyle said.

Apprentice Justin Wood who has returned permanently to Queensland after a short stint in Melbourne rated Celtic Dancer nicely and his 3kg claim certainly was a handy advantage for the Choisir gelding.

Hidden Treasure is close to another win. The Toowoomba filly scored successfully at her home track before her luckless last-start ninth at Eagle Farm.

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