Jacob Cassar will return from Glasgow with plenty of ammunition for poking the bear.
The welterweight was among three Australian boxers to win their quarter-finals on day five at the Commonwealth Games, guaranteeing them medals.
His father is Eddie Cassar, the group-one winning jockey. After his tight victory in the quarters, the question was put to Jacob - which is better, a boxing medal or a group-one win?
"I think it's pretty even. Dad doesn't talk about the racing too much, but I like to poke the bear, give it to him - group-one winning jockey, you know?," he grinned.
Cassar beat Canadian Gabriel Labrie in a 3-2 split decision to reach the semi-finals.
"I was confident, but in boxing anything can happen," Cassar said of the result.
"That was a medal bout to me, that was my gold-medal bout. I lost to him previously and I knew I had to bring a big one to beat him.
"So I'm glad I've done that ... one fight at a time."
Just five years after she first visited a boxing gym as a teenager trying to stay out of trouble, Eve Bryson will also win a Commonwealth Games medal.
The delightfully dumbfounded 21-year-old welterweight had a 4-1 decision over Ugandan Emily Nakalema.
Bryson could not believe she is about to win a medal at the Games.
Playing rugby league, she went to Tyson Lantry's boxing gym in the NSW country town of Kurri Kurri to build fitness.
League was quickly ditched as she fell in love with boxing.
"Tyson, he's been there since day one, this all goes out to him," she said.
"It (boxing) was something to keep me out of trouble - I was a pretty bad teenager.
"Just never give up. This is a hard sport, there are so many ups and downs.
"It can really 'kill' you, but if you keep going, you can do anything. It's pretty incredible what you can do with your life."
Jye Dixon was too good for Md Rakib Hossain of Bangladesh, with two standing counts in the second round deciding their bantamweight bout.
"I feel great, but I didn't come here from bronze. No way ... I have two more tough fights," Dixon said.
But teammate Lachlan Lawson will not join them in the semis, losing his heavyweight bout to England's Isac Okoh.
It was also a tough day for Duken Williams, whose bronze four years ago was the first Commonwealth Games medal for Niue.
He lost his heavyweight quarter-final to Connor Williams of Wales and compatriot Karen Pasene also bowed out against Kaci Rock of Northern Island in the 65kg class.
"It's a tough feeling to deal with, I'm not going to lie," Williams told AAP.
"I thought I did enough to win the second and third (rounds), it must have been a close split decision.
"It's definitely a tough feeling going home empty-handed this time."
Papua New Guinea's Flora Loga also lost her 65kg quarter-final to Scot Caitlin Rainey.
This AAP article was made possible by support from Commonwealth Games Australia.
