News - JONKER (AUS)
Group One winning sprinter Jonker has made the move to Queensland’s legendary Eureka Stud for the 2026 season and he produced a timely debut metropolitan winner at Eagle Farm on Wednesday.
The tragic loss of Spirit of Boom this year for the Queensland breeding industry is a big one, but he does leave behind a Group I winning son in Jonker, who is making headway with five first crop winners from 16 runners, the latest to salute coming at Ipswich on Friday.
Every winner has a story and in the case of Jonker filly Heart of Vienna it's a ripper and best told by the woman that has lived it!
November breeding reminders, here’s the truth… some of the best are born late.
Aquis Stallions is proud to announce Prost - the explosive, Group 2 and 3 winning son of Snitzel – as the latest addition to our stallion roster for 2025.
Queensland’s leading stallion operation, Aquis Stallions, has revealed its roster for the 2024 season.
Aquis Stallions in Queensland opened the gates last weekend for a series of parades that will continue into this week with the stallions set to be shown again at 10am and 2pm on Wednesday and you can still register to attend here
Due to popular demand, Aquis have added more sessions to their 2023 Stallion Parades featuring seven stallions including new addition Stronger, a Group I winning son of Not a Single Doubt, and all are Premium stallions so test your mare with a Hypothetical mating.
Aquis Stallions has today announced their 7-strong stallion line up for the coming spring.
Breeders have been talking and our phones have been ringing non-stop since our Stallion Parades this past weekend. So much so that we have decided to open up and hold an additional two days of parades before the season starts.
Our next chapter in the Price Point series of stories looks at a massive group of well credentialled sires that stand at $16,500 and range from proven G1 sires to first year at stud new boys, so trying to make sense of this group is certainly a task, but if this is what you have to spend then you better read on.
Aquis Farm has today announced a 17-strong roster for the 2022 breeding season - an impressive lineup of the promising and proven.
Exceptional Group I winning sprinter Jonker has retired and will stand at Aquis Farm. He is the first son of Queensland’s champion sire Spirit of Boom to retire to stud.
A third Group 1 of the spring for Daniel Moor as the six-year-old Spirit Of Boom entire Jonker made all the running in Friday night’s Group 1 Ladbrokes Manikato Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley.
Winless since kickstarting his career with runaway wins at Wyong and Newcastle back in December 2017, Jonker made a statement for his new stable when lowering Takeover Targets Doomben 1200m course record in Saturday’s Listed Keith Noud Quality.
YOU could argue there has been two boom horses of 2017 - so it’s any wonder Wingrove Park are shouting from the rooftops their close ties to Royal Symphony and Jonker as the year comes to a close - with both horses expected to make an even bigger name for themselves in 2018.
The Spirit of Boom show rolled into Wyong on Thursday with a breathtaking win in the $200,000 Magic Millions 2YO Classic for his brilliant son Jonker.
Few missed the trial of the David Atkins-trained Jonker on the Beaumont track back on November 21, so it was no surprise that he was sent off an odds-on favourite at his career debut in Sunday’s Max Lees Classic (900m).