Taylor hoping to parlay Chinny Boom success with Gold Coast sale-topper

A sister to talented Queensland sprinting mare Chinny Boom has topped the Magic Millions Gold Coast March Yearling Sale.

Part of the Eureka Stud draft, the Spirit Of Boom filly emerged as a standout lot during the second and final day of the sale, selling for $230,000.

And it was a familiar name on the buyer’s sheet with Chinny Boom’s trainer Clinton Taylor signing for the filly.

Chinny Boom has lifted the profile of Taylor’s Rockhampton stable since bursting onto the scene with five successive wins as an end-of-season two-year-old and early three-year-old.

Her record also includes black-type placings in the Mode Plate last season and more recently the Nudgee Stakes when she was beaten by last weekend’s Group 1 Canterbury Stakes winner Lady Laguna.

While Lady Laguna came out on top against a hot field of sprinters, Chinny Boom also found winning form at the Gold Coast on Saturday, taking her record to eight wins from 13 starts in a career that has so far returned more than $500,000 in stakes.

“She was the real stand out of the whole sale,” Taylor said. “I hadn’t found anything to go close to her.

“I know the family well – and not just Chinny Boom. I also trained the sister Holdin’ My Own who had tonnes of ability.

“Let’s hope this filly can live up to her sisters and she can be as good as them.”

Taylor said he was relieved the gavel fell when it did, as he and his owners were right on their bidding limit.

“We were out of bullets – we were shooting blanks at the end there! It’s really exciting. To have the support of the owners as only a young trainer, I can’t be any more grateful.”

Taylor said the fact the yearling was being presented by one of Queensland’s most successful farms and by their resident champion was another positive. 

“The Eureka name speaks for itself. Their horses win week in, week out and Spirit Of Boom is one of the best things to have happened for Queensland racing – I love him as a stallion.” 

Spirit Of Boom also figured as the sire in the sale’s second-highest priced yearling.

Out of the Show A Heart mare Kiss For Gran, the colt fetched $160,000 on Tuesday with Toowoomba trainer Michael Nolan the winning bidder.

The colt is a half-brother to eight-time winner Kisukano, who was also third in the 2021 Gold Coast Guineas among three stakes placings for Nolan.

At the end of the day’s trade, the clearance rate dropped to 72.57 per cent from 80.2 percent in 2023.

The gross also fell on the 254 lots sold compared to 279 last year – down 14 per cent from $10,058,500 to $8,641,500.

A year-on-year average dropped to $34,022 from $36,052 but the median increased from $26,000 in 2023 to $30,000.