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.

Emerging stayer Aiglon ($4) continued his good Queensland form with a hard fought victory in the Superior Broadband Services Plate (2118m).

Trainer Paul Messara is in France to see his mare Alverta run at Deauville late tonight.

Messara was represented by Eden Petrie who has cancelled his trainer's licence to manage Messara's Queensland base at the Sunshine Coast.

Although Aiglon scored by only a long head, rider Chris Munce thought it was a good performance.

"He's condition started to give out at the 200m but he really toughed it right to the line to still win," Munce said.

There was a brief anxious moment for punters who supported Aiglon with Jim Byrne, the rider of runner-up Athenas Gift ($7) entering a protest.

He felt there had been crowding over the final 300m with Aiglon coming in contact with his mount.

But Munce was adamant the best horse won and Stewards agreed with him.

"Briefly Aiglon did shift in but moments after that Athenas Gift moves out and that caused both riders to be inconvenienced," chief steward Wade Birch ruled.

Diago who started equal favourite at $4 with Aiglon finishing fourth without threatening to be in the finish.