News - SPIRIT OF BOOM (AUS)
When the new season ticked over there wouldn’t have been anybody tipping Spirit Of Boom to be 21 runners without a winner but he’s on the board now with an impressive debutant at the Sunshine Coast on Sunday.
It’s been a slow start to the new season for Eureka Stud’s young sire sensation Spirit of Boom, but that could change quickly judging by a brilliant barrier trial win at Rosehill on Monday morning for his star performer Ef Troop.
Eureka Stud’s young sire sensation Spirit of Boom posted an 18th first crop winner at Ipswich on Wednesday with a tenacious win for Bold Warrior.
You wait a lifetime for a stallion like this one to come along.
The leading sire of two year-old winners in Australia this season, Eureka Stud’s sire sensation Spirit of Boom added a 17th juvenile winner to his tally at Toowoomba on Wednesday.
With 15 first crop winners that include five stakes-winners, Eureka Stud’s Spirit of Boom is doing things we have not seen done since More Than Ready (USA) burst on to the scene in the 2004/2005 season and is tracking very closely to the first crop achievements of I Am Invincible.
What started as a nomination swap between old family friends ten years ago ended in Spirit of Booms fifth stakes winner at Morphettville on Saturday.
The Richard Jolly-trained filly Heaven’s Deal became the fifth stakes-winner from the first crop of Spirit Of Boom while denying the Darley stallion Albrecht his first when she out-bobbed Sanglier in a thrilling finish to Saturday’s Queen Adelaide Stakes (1050m) at Morphettville.
Making her third trip to the races, the Matt Kropp-trained Spirit’s Choice found an early lead under Rebecca Goldsbury and despite racing erratically in the straight drew away to win a 1000 metre maiden at Dalby on Saturday by five and a quarter lengths to credit her sire Spirit Of Boom with his 14th first crop winner.
A day after racking up his 12th winner, boom first season sire Spirit Of Boom produced the 13th.
Set to stand at the increased fee of $55,000 at Eureka Stud this spring, Spirit of Boom sired his 12th individual winner at Murray Bridge on Wednesday with a facile debut victory for Heaven’s Deal.
The Helen Page-trained Brinkmanship was the second most expensive yearling by Spirit Of Boom sold in 2017 so he had something to prove when he lined up in the Easter Bonnett Maiden Plate (1100m) at Beaudesert on Easter Monday.
It’s been a long time since racetrack results generated by a first season sire have driven a sale ring frenzy, but that is what we are seeing in this country right now.
The insatiable appetite for the latest crop of youngsters by Australian first season sire sensation Spirit of Boom continued today with the Magic Millions Gold Coast March Yearling Sale smashing records across the board.
Records tumbled on Day One of the 2018 Magic Millions Gold Coast March Yearling Sale today as the progeny of Australia's first season sire sensation Spirit of Boom lit up the sale ring.
The battle for leading first crop sire looks to have settled down to a two-horse war between Zoustar and Spirit Of Boom and while the former drew first blood on Saturday with the ruling Golden Slipper favourite Sunlight in the $175,000 Group III Magic Night Stakes at Rosehill, Spirit Of Boom countered with the quinella in the $250,000 QTIS 2yo Jewel at the Gold Coast.
With less than two weeks until the 2018 Golden Slipper it seems only fitting that the busiest sire in 2017 should in fact be a Golden Slipper winner.
A colt by Australia's first season sire sensation Spirit of Boom topped a healthy opening dayat the 2018 Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale at Morphettville today.
Champion Brisbane trainer Tony Gollan has confirmed dual Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Corey Brown will ride his star Spirit of Boom juveniles Ef Troop and Outback Barbie in their Golden Slipper lead-up races in Sydney.
The Spirit Of Boom show kept rolling at the Gold Coast on Wednesday with his 10th winner and progeny earnings topping the million dollars.