Cover image courtesy of Bronwen Healy
Emirates Park has enjoyed considerable success this season on the racecourse, and it continued on Tuesday at Mornington with the 2-year-old filly Burum (Artie Schiller {USA}) winning the first race of the meeting in the IDS Security Plate over 1000 metres.
The white-socked bay filly is a half-sister to last Saturday’s G3 Gold Coast Guineas winner Marboosha (Dream Ahead {USA}), making it a particularly busy pedigree at the moment.
However, Burum also joins fellow Emirates Park juvenile Najmaty (I Am Invincible) in a productive season for the breeder, with the latter winning the Listed Redoute’s Choice at Caulfield last month for the Hawkes team.
No favours
Trained at Ballarat by the Ciaron Maher-David Eustace partnership, Burum headed to Mornington on Tuesday with only jump-outs behind her. However, this didn’t bother her backers as she was second-choice in the betting.
Ridden by jockey Ben Allen, she leaped wide from barrier seven but was the very last off the bridle turning for home. Burum was three-wide at that point, with favourite Kapanku (Star Turn) and Super Aurora (Super One) inside her, but she shook them off easily and stretched away for a soft 1.75l win.
The final results posted Kapanku second, with Zarina Bay (Cable Bay {Ire}) 3l in arrears for third.
“Ben jumped pretty well with her and sat three-wide,” said Leigh Allen, the trackside stable rep for the Maher-Eustace yard. “He didn’t want to force the issue and go right to the lead, so he was happy to sit wide and she was quite impressive towards the end.”
Allen said the stable had a high opinion of the filly off her jump-out efforts, but equally she was a well-bred young horse, and that was worth considering.
“Emirates Park is a good supporter of us, so it’s good to have a win for them,” he said. “She’s a half-sister to Marboosha, who is a good 3-year-old at the moment, so there are plans for her, but they’ll probably put her away and have her back for the spring.”
"There are plans for her (Burum), but they’ll probably put her away and have her back for the spring." - Leigh Allen
Jockey Ben Allen said it was a tactical win for the filly, staying wide the whole trip and outlasting the field by a margin.
“Even though she was wide, she had a good experience and did everything right,” Allen said. “She’s a credit to the team. She had no favours today and she still won quite impressively.”
Boom Time family
Burum is the third foal from Emirates Park broodmare Boomex (Exceed And Excel). Marboosha was her first, and that filly, trained by the Snowden team, has won close to $330,000 in prizemoney.
Boomex was unraced, but she is a daughter of the one-time smart juvenile Boom Time Savings (Secret Savings {USA}), who was second in both the G2 Reisling S. and G2 Silver Slipper S. before a fourth in the G1 Golden Slipper behind Miss Finland (Redoute’s Choice).
It’s a generational family for Emirates Park, which raced Boom Time Savings and now has Marboosha and Burum in its silks.
Burum as a yearling
In the case of Burum, providence may have stepped in as the filly was catalogued for sale at the 2020 Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale in the draft of Stockwell Thoroughbreds. She was passed in at $95,000, just shy of her $100,000 reserve.
Boomex, meanwhile, had a colt by Flying Artie in 2019, and has a weanling colt by No Nay Never (USA) on the ground. She was served last season by I Am Invincible.
