Ef Troop gives sire first winner

Ef Troop has lived up to a good trial to give first-season sire Spirit of Boom his first winner.

Well-bred gelding Ef Troop has lived up to a good trial to give first-season sire Spirit of Boom his first winner in record style at Doomben.

Ef Troop won at trial at Doomben by 8-1/2 lengths on Tuesday and it wasn’t until Saturday morning that trainer Tony Gollan confirmed he was a definite runner.

A $70,000 buy at the Magic Millions Sales, Ef Troop ($2.15) scored by a neck to Only Want To Sing ($41) with 1-/4 lengths to Catastropohic ($6.50) in the Padua Old Boys Two Year Old (1050m).

Ef Troop ran 60.33 seconds, which took a full second off the previous class record and only slightly over a second outside the course record.

Gollan said he had a big opinion of Ef Troop but had wanted to make certain he had recovered from the trial before starting on Saturday.

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“I wasn’t so bullish at the 600m when Catastrophic was going with him but to his credit Ef Troop kept going,” Gollan said.

“It was a great run from a horse having his first start. He is a Magic Millions horse so he can have 10 days in the paddock and then we will start looking at the ($2 million) Magic Millions Classic.”

The win was a special thrill for Gollan as he trained Spirit Of Boom who won the 2014 Doomben 10,000 before going to stud at Eureka Stud on the Darling Downs.

“He has had a couple of seconds earlier this season so it’s great to be the first to train a winner by him. He is going to make a top sire,” Gollan added.

Toowoomba gelding Hopes Eternal ($2.30) who’d won both his only two previous starts was run off his feet and finished fourth.

He will now spell with the winter carnival in mind.