Racing: Booming pursues cup start

Booming lived up to his name last start and he's going to have to do it again at Awapuni tomorrow.

He will have to boom home from the body of the field, as he tends to do, and win the $35,000 Farmlands Dow Agri Sciences 2300 if he's to make the field for the $250,000 Century City Wellington Cup on January 30.

Booming sits 28th in order of entry into the Cup, too far back to guarantee a run.

The Jeff Lynds-trained stayer has looked a star in the making and proved that with a super impressive win on this track last start on December 19.

Opie Bosson did only as much as he needed to for Booming to win by one length. He goes up only 1.5kg in exactly the same type of race and that increase in weight would not have been enough to stop him last start.

Bosson did well to get Booming in only one off the rail from a widish draw last start and will need to do the same again.

Leica Scotch is an improver. He's made only the six raceday appearances, but always looked the makings of a topliner before injury sidelined him as a 3-year-old last season.

It's a big jump he's making from R70 at Thames to take on one of the favourites for the Wellington Cup, but he may surprise a few.

Jeff Lynds doesn't have anything like Booming's concerns with stablemate Wall Street, who will go around at prohibitive odds in the $35,000 Waikato Stud Handicap.

Wall Street is the $2.80 favourite for the group one Thorndon Mile on Wellington Cup Day.

To justify that short quote two weeks out he has to beat this field.

It includes the top-class mare Ill Quello Veloce, who is coming off a second to O'Cartier here last start.

She carried 57kg under the weight-for-age conditions of that race and drops here to 55kg.

Most of the leading lights in the Gallagher Group Marton Cup are already safely into the Wellington Cup and are having a final hit-out.

They include Manonamissison, southerner Titsgittin, stablemates Stand Tall and Court Ruler, Butch James and Biggles.

A win here would promote Heat Haze and Kaapeon Way into the Wellington Cup field.

This winner of the Marton Cup will not be re-handicapped for the Wellington Cup.

There is an interesting scenario for Regal Governor.

He does not hold a Wellington Cup nomination, but Race Inc. provides for paying the late entry fee of $7734 into the cup for the winner.

This is a jump up from the Thames Cup he won last start, but the impressive element of that win was the way he worked away from the opposition in the final five or six strides.

He's nicely placed with 53kg tomorrow.