Cue the headline now.

It’s July 19 in Brisbane and the local paper, the Courier Mail, gets right behind their local champ Leap To Fame on the morning of his quest to win a second Inter Dominion title at Albion Park.

As big as “dual Inter Dominion winner” sounds, there is something far greater at play for Leap To Fame.

“Fame for Immortality?” is the headline I would go with.

Leap To Fame will get his chance to create more history - make that his greatest slice of history yet - in this $1 million Inter Dominion final.

Victory will make him the richest Australasian pacer of all time.

Pause and think about that … It now seems just a matter of when Leap To Fame banks more career prize money than any champion to come before him in this part of the world.

Almost regardless of what happens between now and then, the $540,000 Inter Dominion first prize will take him past another amazing Queenslander and current richest, Blacks A Fake.

Leap To Fame is one of just four pacers to have topped $4 million. He moved to $4,027,330 after Saturday night’s first-up win at Albion Park.

Ahead of him are: Blacks A Fake ($4,575,438), Im Themightyquinn ($4,567,456) and Lazarus ($4,125,988).

Leap To Fame will close the gap further with another lead-up race or two and then two $40,000 heats of the Inter Dominion.

Not only is he poised to claim the record, but Leap To Fame also boasts a considerably better winning strike rate than the three greats above him.

Leap To Fame wins at a 79.7 percent strike rate. Lazarus was the closest at 72.5 percent, then Blacks A Fake on 68.6 percent and Im Themightyquinn way back on 53.3 percent.

Pause and think about next time Leap To Fame is beaten. It’s a rare thing, even rarer than any of those greats before him.

Let that sink in.

Comparisons are hard, subjective, somewhat pointless but also inevitable.

On any measure Leap To Fame deserves to be in the conversation as the greatest of all time.

And, yes, that includes going back to the likes of Popular Alm, Preux Chevalier and others.

Not only does Leap To Fame boast the prize money and strike rate, but he’s now got serious longevity.

Not quite the six years Blacks A Fake had, but Leap To Fame is now into his fourth year at the very top level.

He’s already won three Derbys at three, a Rising Sun four as well as an Inter Dominion, Miracle Mile, Hunter Cup, Blacks A Fake, NZ Race by betcha and many other races in open class.

And he’s just six and has at least another 12 months of racing if he stays sound.

Age certainly isn’t catching-up with Leap To Fame, either.

In fact, that Cambridge win of his in the Race by betcha was as good, if not better, than he’s ever gone.

Last year’s Miracle Mile win sitting parked and his mesmerizing win in the Blacks A Fake a few months after that were the other genuine “wow” moments.

Albion Park race caller Chris Barbsy has every right to borrow a line from fellow caller Greg Miles if Leap To Fame wins on July 19.

“A champion becomes a legend,” said Miles as Makybe Diva crossed the line to win her third Melbourne Cup in 2005.