Trainer Matt Dunn is not prone to hyperbole so when he says he has a two-year-old colt who can win the Gold Coast Magic Millions, it might pay to listen.

Torque To Be Sure currently sits just outside the 16-horse starting field in ballot order for the $3m Magic Millions 2YO Classic (1200m) on Saturday week, so is set to race on Saturday to secure his spot.

Dunn expects Torque To Be Sure to win Saturday's Gold Nugget (1100m) on the Gold Coast – a race in which the colt only needs to run a place to book a spot in the rich Magic Millions a week later.

Torque To Be Sure was a flashing light run at his first race start when powering home to finish runner-up behind Vein Girl in the $250,000 The Debut at the Gold Coast under lights on December 20.

Torque To Be Sure has been strongly backed from $2.80 into $2.30 to win on Saturday and, in recent days, has been $34 into $21 to score the rich Magic Millions.

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"He's a very good colt – I think he will win on Saturday and he's every chance to win the Magic Millions as well," Murwillumbah trainer Dunn said.

"Nash Rawiller will ride on Saturday, half a kilogram over, and he will ride in the Magic Millions as well.

"I would say I would almost certainly race him on Saturday.

"Some people are telling me that even if I don't run him, he would probably make the Magic Millions field but I don't completely trust that.

"I don't want to end up as first or second emergency, I want to make sure of it.

"They will find it very hard to beat him on Saturday.

"I also feel he would be my best chance to ever win a Magic Millions 2YO Classic.

"There's not really anything there at this stage that frightens me too much."

Torque To Be Sure has been something of a surprise packet for Dunn considering the youngster was under threat of being gelded following his first trial.

Dunn described him at the time as a "pain in the arse" who almost certainly needed to be gelded.

But suddenly the penny dropped.

"When I gave him his first trial, straight after I said he needs to be gelded," Dunn said.

"But we gave him the benefit of the doubt and said ‘let's go to another trial and see what he does'.

"From his first trial, his brain just clicked and he said ‘OK this is what we do'.

"It has been quite incredible actually.

"Colts either go one way or the other, but this guy has just improved in everything he has done.

"He is just one of those colts that went the right way.

"Honestly, before his first trial, I thought he was a pain in the arse.

"But the penny has just dropped, even though he is doing something that he's not really designed to do because you would think he would be better at three years old at a mile."

Meanwhile, Dunn is contemplating running unbeaten filly Scripted in a Class Two Handicap at Ipswich on Saturday in a bid to get enough ratings points to qualify for the $3m Gold Coast Magic Millions 3YO Guineas (1400m) a week later.

Impressive three-year-old filly Scripted. Picture: Natasha Wood / Trackside Photography

It is the first year that ratings points, rather than prize money, is being used to determine the 3YO Guineas field.

"Her whole campaign has been muddled by not being able to run her on wet tracks," Dunn said.

"I will think about running her on Saturday at Ipswich.

"She would have to win convincingly to get enough ratings points to get into the Guineas field.

"But if she gets in, she would be competitive."

Scripted is currently a $51 chance in the Gold Coast Magic Millions Guineas.