Record Breaking Return for Spirit Of Boom's Jonker

Mark Smith - Saturday November 14

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.

Now trained by Tony Gollan, the 5yo son of Spirit of Boom made every post a winner under Jim Byrne to stop the clock at 1:7.83. he had a four and a half-length margin over Deep Image (Testa Rossa) with a further half-head back to Master Jamie (Poet’s Voice) in third.

“He reminds me so much of his father. It’s just like having (Spirit Of Boom) back in the stable again,” Gollan told Racenet.

“We took plenty of time to get him ready and he put the writing on the wall in the trial, but I guess we just wanted to see some intent on raceday.”

Gollan indicated that Jonker will run next in the George Moore Stakes on December 5 on his way to the Magic Millions raceday on January 16.

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Bred by Wicklow Lodge, Jonker was a $45,000 purchase by part-owner Doug Crich from the Fig Tree Thoroughbreds draft at session two of the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale.

Jonker was a $45,000 Magic Millions yearling

Placed three times at Group II level, Jonker advances his record to three wins a second and four thirds from 21 starts with earnings of $625,160.

He is the third winner from as many to race out of the winning Kempinsky mare Hearts And Arrows who is a half-sister to the Group III CS Hayes winner Fair Trade and triple Group III winner and Group 1 placed Fiscal Fantasy from the incomparable Eight Carat family.

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Race Result - Rawgroup Hosp. Keith Noud Qlty LR 1200m

Doomben Track: Good(3) Time: 1:07.83
1
Jonker
- 5h Spirit Of Boom (AUS) x Hearts And Arrows (AUS) (Kempinsky (AUS))
Tnr: T J Gollan Rdr: J Byrne 54
Spirit Of Boom
2
4.5
Deep Image
- 7g Testa Rossa (AUS) x Starwish (AUS) (Redoute's Choice (AUS))
Tnr: R L Heathcote Rdr: Ms S Thornton 59
Testa Rossa
3
4.6
Master Jamie
- 4g Poet's Voice (GB) x Verkko (AUS) (Flying Spur (AUS))
Tnr: G R Green Rdr: Leslie Tilley 54
4
4.7
Hard Empire
- 7g Hard Spun (USA) x Last Quill (AUS) (Last Tycoon (IRE))
Tnr: A J & T Edmonds Rdr: B N Stewart 57.5
5
4.9
Catesby
- 6g Shamardal (USA) x Mannington (AUS) (Danehill (USA))
Tnr: Grant Allard Rdr: Ms T Harrison 54
6
5.1
Niccanova
- 7g Nicconi (AUS) x Dananova (AUS) (Snippetson (AUS))
Tnr: S P Tregea Rdr: James Orman 60
7
5.5
Stampe
- 4g Whittington (AUS) x Envelope (AUS) (Monashee Mountain (USA))
Tnr: Chris Munce Rdr: S Cormack 54
8
6.0
Scallopini
- 6g Snitzel (AUS) x Rose Of Mulan (AUS) (More Than Ready (USA))
Tnr: S O'Dea & M Hoysted Rdr: Ben Thompson 59
9
6.5
Spurcraft
- 7g Jet Spur (AUS) x Carnivale Queen (AUS) (Starcraft (NZ))
Tnr: K M Schweida Rdr: L V Cassidy 57
10
7.2
Soxagon
- 5g Rocker (AUS) x Strike On Goal (NZ) (Van Nistelrooy (USA))
Tnr: M A Currie Rdr: Luke Tarrant 54
11
7.7
Prioritise
- 7g Rothesay (AUS) x Kimash (AUS) (Jeune (GB))
Tnr: S P Tregea Rdr: Dale Smith 54
12
8.5
Sandbar
- 5h Snitzel (AUS) x Tallow (AUS) (Street Cry (IRE))
Tnr: David Vandyke Rdr: R Wiggins 55
13
9.7
Macewen
- 5g Rothesay (AUS) x Gogoreilly (NZ) (O'Reilly (NZ))
Tnr: T J Gollan Rdr: R Fradd 54
14
9.9
Krone
- 5m Eurozone (AUS) x Soft Landing (AUS) (Al Maher (AUS))
Tnr: T J Gollan Rdr: Taylor Marshall 54.5
15
10.2
Removal
- 7g Pluck (USA) x Enemy Dragline (AUS) (General Nediym (AUS))
Tnr: J C Smerdon Rdr: Ron Stewart 54
16
10.4
Freddie Fox Trot
- 6g Foxwedge (AUS) x Tamieka (AUS) (Viscount (AUS))
Tnr: L D Kelly Rdr: M Cahill 56.5
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