Munce beats cancer and rivals in Sizzling Guineas Under control: Munce and Sizzling waltz away with the Queensland Guineas at Eagle Farm. It will be a year since Sizzling gave Chris Munce his last group 1 winner when he jumps on the colt in this week's Stradbroke Handicap, and in that time his life has changed enormously. The Hall of Fame hoop booted Sizzling to victory in Saturday's Queensland Guineas to cap a week that bookended the traumatic year. Munce was diagnosed with throat cancer late last year and after a series of radiation and chemotherapy has returned to the saddle. He got the all-clear from doctors early in the week that he had beaten cancer and it seemed fitting Sizzling would be there to give him the winning feeling on the track. "You can't ask for much more from a week," Munce said. It was a terrific week for me on a personal front, and tipped off by the little colt winning. Things couldn't be going much better. His ride on Sizzling was full of daring, working into the Guineas from back in the field from the 800 metres before launching his winning claim from the 600m. Sizzling burst clear halfway down the straight and held off late charges from Dances On Stars and Lucky Hussler to win by a long neck with a long head back to third. The Snitzel colt has 52 kilograms in the Stradbroke and is open to a penalty after his win, which fulfilled his potential in Munce's eyes. "He was at that stage of his career that he had to measure up today" he said. I had faith in the ability of the horse ... I wanted to be a bit aggressive and make him race today with the blinkers on. It all worked out well. Trainer Kelso Wood had reluctantly put the blinkers on Sizzling but said they focused him. "You have to say they have done something now he has won," Wood said. It was a great ride and he showed what faith he had in the horse to ride him like that. A year on from his finest moment, when he won the T. J. Smith at Eagle Farm, Sizzling will start close to favourite for the Stradbroke.