Unbeaten Dance To The Boom wins Gosford Guineas
With the Gosford racetrack still under renovation, the Listed Gosford Guineas meeting was held at Wyong on the final day of 2024. Only five faced the starter in the Guineas with the Bjorn Baker-trained Midnight Dynamite (Pierata) sent out as the new favourite after Amazing Eagle (Capitalist) was scratched due to a minor heel injury. The Baker pair lead the race but it was unbeaten Dance To The Boom (Exceedance) who sped away to win by 0.75l with David Payne trained Shohisha (Supido) claiming second over Midnight Dynamite who held on for third.
“She's still learning, she's a big filly with a massive stride and she has that great will to win,” jockey Rachel King told Sky Thoroughbred Central. “I think if she was on a bigger track should would have put a greater margin on them.”
Dance To The Boom has now won all her three starts with earnings over $198,000.
“Dance To The Boom is getting better and better. I honestly thought the other bloke (Midnight Dynamite) would be too seasoned for her, but maybe he is coming to the end of it (long preparation),” said Bjorn Baker's stable representative Glen Lobb.
“But this filly has done nothing but improve and she raced away for a very good win. It was a surprise, the race fell away so much but we will take it.”
“But this filly (Dance To The Boom) has done nothing but improve and she raced away for a very good win.” - Glen Lobb
Bought by Cambridge Stud’s Jo Lindsay for $250,000 from Rosemont Stud’s 2023 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale draft, Dance To The Boom races in the famous yellow and black colours of the New Zealand stud farm. Rosemont Stud will offer Dance To The Boom’s Hanseatic half-brother as Lot 212 at the upcoming 2025 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale.
Second-season sire Exceedance is continuing the pattern that G1 Coolmore Stud S. winners make strong stallions and he now has four stakes winners with the others being Dublin Down, Flyer, and Swiftfalcon.
Lot 212 - Hanseatic x Bim Bam Boom (colt) | Image courtesy of Magic Millions
Dance To The Boom is the first foal of unraced Bim Bam Boom (I Am Invincible) and I Am Invincible enjoyed his first two Group 1 winners as a damsire in 2024 with globe-trotting Asfoora (Flying Artie) and tough mare Kimochi (Brave Smash {Jpn}). Bim Bam Boom is a half-sister to G1 NZ Easter H. winner Albany Reunion (Fastnet Rock) and Listed winner Fast Dragon (Fastnet Rock) who placed in the G1 Herbie Dyke S. Another half-sister Group 3-placed winner Palace Rock (Fastnet Rock) is the dam of Listed winner and G1 JJ Atkins Plate-placed Giannis (Flying Artie).
This is a family that churns out stakes winners with the likes of Parlophone (I Am Invincible), Sun City (Zoustar), Shesallshenanigans (Toronado {Ire}), Shelby Cobra (Toronado {Ire}), Rock Robster (Fastnet Rock), and others all featuring on the page.
Drama in G3 Belle Of The Turf Stakes
Chris Waller trained 4-year-old mare Konasana (Dundeel {NZ}) overcame top weight and a protest to win the G3 Belle Of The Turf S. at Wyong’s Gosford meeting on New Year’s Eve.
Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott trained 4-year-old mare Redbreast (American Pharoah {USA}) was sent out to lead by jockey Rachel King but Konasana finished strongly to win by 0.44l with Kris Lees trained 4-year-old mare Pier Pressure (Press Statement) trying to dive between the pair at the final furlong but was checked and finished in third. Pier Pressure’s jockey Tyler Schiller lodged a protest with Racing NSW stewards deliberating for about five minutes before dismissing both protests and confirming Konasana as the winner.
“We got to the right part of the track in the straight and she was great today,” jockey Regan Bayliss said. A homebred for Woppitt Bloodstock, Konasana took her record to five wins from 16 starts with earnings over $570,000 and she was previously a winner of the G3 James HB Carr S. in April this year.
One of 33 stakes winners for Dundeel (NZ), Konansana is the third foal out of Posing (USA) (Medicean {GB}) who was a winner over 2150 metres in Ireland. She has an unnamed 2-year-old colt by Yes Yes Yes and a colt foal by St Mark’s Basilica (Fr).
Posing’s second dam is G3 Musidora S. winner Magnificent Style (USA) (Silver Hawk {USA}) who was crowned Broodmare of the Year in Ireland in 2012 thanks to dual Group 1 winner Nathaniel (Ire) and G1 Irish Oaks winner Great Heavens (GB) (Galileo {Ire}). Magnificent Style has also produced G1 Ascot Fillies Mile winner Playful Act (Ire) (Sadler’s Wells {USA}), G2 Yorkshire Cup winner Percussionist (Ire) (Sadler’s Wells {USA}), Group 2 winner Echoes In Eternity (Ire) (Spinning Hill {USA}), Group 3 winner and Group 1-placed Changing Skies (Ire) (Sadler’s Wells {USA}) and Listed winners Stylelistick (USA) (Storm Cat {USA}) and Petara Bay (Ire) (Peintre Celebre {USA}).
