The very smart four-year-old mare Chinny Boom will look to land her ninth career win in only her fourteenth start when she contests a Quality Open Handicap over 1200m at Doomben on Saturday.
For the Clinton Taylor trained daughter of Spirit Of Boom, Saturday’s result, and more particularly how she comes through the run, is only part of the playbook as Chinny Boom has bigger fish to fry with the $775 000 The Archer at Rockhampton on April 28 firmly on the radar.
A win on Saturday, where she is currently set to tackle six rivals, will take Chinny Boom’s earnings past the $600,000 mark and, with The Archer’s first prize being $400 000, that would set up a possible really momentous occasion for Chinny Boom and her connections at Rockhampton where a win would not only make her the first local horse to win The Archer but would push her earning through the magical $1 million mark.
That’s a lot of water to go under the bridge in a short space of time, but, just for Chinny Boom to be in this position at this time is a remarkable story in itself.
She was passed, failing to meet her reserve price in at the 2021 Magic Millions Sales when X-Rays revealed a knee chip, and owner/breeder Mark Pascoe then took a punt, deciding to keep Chinny Boom and have the knee chip operated on.
The rest, as they say, is history.
Chinny Boom won her first five starts in a row by a combined total of 21.75 lengths, before having her colours lowered for the first time by the narrowest of margins in the Listed Mode Plate at Doomben.
From being passed in as a yearling, big money offers were now rolling in looking to purchase Chinny Boom but, one more time, Pascoe decided he wanted to keep her and race her himself.
He was not interested in selling his Rockhampton flyer.
Further down the track a runner-up finish in the Listed Nudgee Stakes when finishing less than a length behind Lady Laguna (who would go on to become a Group 1 winner in the Canterbury Stakes) and a third place in the $1 million Magic Millions QTIS Open yet again franked Chinny Boom’s way average ability … as did her last start victory when saluting at the Gold Coast on March 9.
So, form-wise, it is all systems go with Chinny Boom.
There is a lot to play for over the next eighteen days.