A progressive five year-old gelding by Hellbent, Boston Rocks has been working quietly through his grades for Goulburn trainer Matt Dale, who saw an opportunity at Caulfield on Saturday in the $175,000 Listed MRC Village Stakes (1100m).
Freshened after his seventh in $2million The Kosciuszko behind Clear Thinking, Boston Rocks found conditions to suit in Melbourne with Mick Dee to ride.
He loomed into the race after turning for home and was in front with 100m to go, powering clear to win by a length and a half.
A $100,000 Inglis HTBA Yearling Sale purchase from the draft of Segenhoe for Kurrinda Bloodstock / Singleton Racing, Boston Rocks was the third highest priced yearling at that sale and has the overall record of seven wins from 22 starts with prizemoney just shy of $600,000.
"He's always been such a consistent horse. It is a great result and I have his half-sister by So You Think, so it is good residually for her as well,” said Sean Driver of Kurrinda Bloodstock.
"It has been tough this spring. We have been thrown a few curve balls with Private Harry going amiss and then we had Hidden Motive win the Roman Consul (G2) in Sydney, and now Boston Rocks.
"Matthew has done such a wonderful job with this horse. He's a quirky gelding and to keep him sound, he's got tricky feet."
Mick Dee was thrilled to get a winning result for connections.
"Matthew (Dale) rang me this morning and the race panned out exactly how we'd hoped. I thought 1100m for Beast Mode, he might be found wanting late and that was the case and we were able to have the last crack,” he said.
"When I had to come around Philosopher I saw Hedged poking through there so I thought I had to get around Philosopher and duck back in to make sure Hedged stayed in that pocket.
"Either way, my bloke would have been hard to beat.”
Yet another stakes-winner to come from the Segenhoe nursery, Boston Rocks is the best of five winners from five foals to race from Spurs and Sashes, a winning half-sister by Flying Spur to Group winners Sabatini and Vivi Veloce.
Spurs and Sashes was on-sold in April this year through Inglis Digital for just $2,750 not in foal to Crompton Bloodstock and her last foal for Segenhoe is a yearling filly by Tassort.
Boston Rocks is the ninth stakes-winner for Hellbent, who has 21 entries for Magic Millions 2026.
