Encosta De Spoken (AUS)

A perennial source of juvenile talent, Spirit of Boom has stepped on the gas this season with winners of 15 x 2YO races including 4 individual stakes races.

“Mate, you broke your maiden in the Derby. Good boy” – quote of the day from Craig Williams, chatting to his mount after he’d won the Hong Kong Derby aboard a horse that’s related to Makybe Diva, cost $1.4mil, but hadn’t won a race in his 16 starts prior.