"Realistically when we came down here this was the race we thought he could be competitive in, purely because of the distance," Gollan said.
"It's obviously a very, very hard race to win and will require our fair share of luck as you need in any group one.
"But we feel we've done a good job with him and have got him in good condition and he'll run his best this preparation on Saturday."
He chased home Rich Enuff in the Danehill Stakes first-up before running home for second from midfield in the Guineas Prelude (1400m).
Rich Enuff exploded away at the top of the straight and Looks Like The Cat could only get to within 2 lengths on the line. Gollan is hoping the rise in trip plays into the favour of his charge. "I think it's a different race, the mile," he said.
"It's a different field. So we need to get a clear run and probably be on our bike a little bit earlier than in the Prelude. We'll have to get around Caulfield a little bit better which I'm sure he will at his second go there."
Looks Like The Cat's only attempt at 1600m was a close third behind another Guineas rival Almalad in the JJ Atkins in Brisbane during winter.
• Three-time Group One winner Sangster's A$3 million Group 1 Caulfield Cup hopes go on the line in today's Group 2 A$200,000 Herbert Power Stakes.
The Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young-trained six-year-old Savabeel gelding sits at number 23 in the order of entry for the cup on Saturday week, five places short of being assured a start.
However, success in today's Herbert Power Stakes (2400m) at Caulfield would see Sangster exempt from ballot and seal a start in one of Melbourne's big-three races of the spring.
"I'm picking there will be a couple that will drop out after this weekend's racing, but if he wins he's exempt from ballot anyway," Busuttin said.
"To be honest, if he can't win on Saturday, he can't win the Caulfield Cup and we'd probably look at the Moonee Valley Cup a week later and then work toward the Melbourne Cup.
"At this stage he's 26th in order and they start 24 so he's almost guaranteed to get a run.
"With the Europeans, we've got to be realistic and it would be hard to say he could win, but he's good enough to acquit himself well." Sangster bounced back to form with a strong second to The Cleaner in last month's Group 3 JRA Cup at Moonee Valley when he encountered interference at crucial stages of the race.
"No question he should have won," Busuttin said. "Kudos to The Cleaner because he did it with a big weight and he's a good horse, but we copped a couple of bad checks that cost us.
"We're rapt with him. He's going great and we're very much looking forward to getting him back up to 2400 metres on Saturday.
"We were pretty confident with him going into that last run, which is funny to say about a 50-1 shot. We knew the horse had come up this time in because everything he was telling us at home was that he was going enormous.
"The owners were good enough to back our judgment, which was great because it's not easy putting them on a plane when they've got a row of duck eggs in their form line."
Sangster is on the fifth line of betting at $9 for the Herbert Power Stakes in Australia, but remains at least at $50 for the Caulfield Cup and A$6 million Group 1 Melbourne Cup.
• It has been 10 years since trainer Andreas Wohler was last in Melbourne for a spring carnival.
A previous visitor for the Cox Plate, the German has his eyes set on the Melbourne Cup this year.
His smart galloper Protectionist makes his Australian debut in the Herbert Power Stakes at Caulfield today as a pipe-opener to his main target on the first Tuesday in November.
Wohler prepared Silvano to finish fourth behind Northerly in the 2001 Cox Plate, while Paolini was 10th to Savabeel in 2004.
However, the Melbourne Cup has always sparked Wohler's interest and he was determined to be part of the action when he found the right horse.
It was after a group two race at Baden-Baden in June, in which Protectionist finished second, that Wohler gave serious thought to a Melbourne Cup campaign.
"It's something special," Wohler said of the Melbourne Cup.
"I haven't been before but I have watched the race on the television.
"Australian racing is huge. To enjoy the atmosphere, it's fantastic."
The race will be Protectionist's first on a tight-turning circuit, a factor Wohler admits is a slight concern, as is the horse's topweight of 59kg.
"He's never run on a track like Caulfield before - as tight a track and with so short a straight so he will have to accommodate that," Wohler said.
Craig Williams has the ride today and hands over to Ryan Moore in the Melbourne Cup.
- AAP
