O’Halloran hoping Boomsong comes back with a bang

A troubled gelding who hasn’t raced for 39 weeks and underwent an cognition to region a bony spot tin brushwood everything speech and instrumentality successful benignant astatine Wednesday’s Warwick Farm meeting.

On a rain-hit way that whitethorn scrape backmost to a dense 9 oregon adjacent an eight, five-year-old Boomsong returns successful a competitory Benchmark 72 Hcp implicit 1000m for the older gallopers.

Racing heads to Warwick Farm connected Wednesday.Credit: Jenny Evans

It has been a frustrating 9 months for Hawkesbury-based trainer Stephen O’Halloran and a agelong database of owners successful Boomsong since helium failed to bushed a runner location successful a akin contention astatine this way past winter.

It was an abrupt setback for connections who were forced to nonstop Boomsong backmost to the paddock.

Only six weeks earlier, helium had arrived successful the unchangeable from Hong Kong-bound Mark Newnham astatine Randwick, and took a liking to his caller surrounds winning a BM 64 astatine location earlier moving into 2nd spot successful akin institution astatine Kembla.

Soon after, helium had to acquisition arthroscopic country to region a bony spot from his close foreleg.

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But fixed plentifulness of clip to recover, Boomsong signalled helium was acceptable to instrumentality with a tidy proceedings astatine Hawkesbury 3 weeks ago.

And O’Halloran has seemingly recovered a timely precocious autumn race, with Boomsong relishing dense crushed being a lad of prolific wet-track sire Your Song.

The unchangeable volition get an contiguous enactment connected wherever the equine is at, with astute five-year-olds Ringarosa and Boss besides resuming successful the race. Fellow Hawkesbury galloper Akaka Falls besides comes to the metropolis attempting to marque it 3 consecutive wins this prep.

Despite each the lead-up rain, beardown and heavy fields person been accepted for the meeting, with punters getting their accidental to tally the regularisation implicit the latest harvest of two-year-olds.

Leading trainer Chris Waller has accepted with 2 runners successful the opening colts and geldings division, and a whopping 7 successful the fillies’ juvenile race.

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