Trainer Matthew Dunn has big plans for Boom Torque

By Glenn Davis

Trainer Matthew Dunn plans to raise the bar to a Highway race in Sydney and the 2023-24 Queensland Summer Racing Carnival if talented sprinter Boom Torque extends his winning sequence at Doomben on Wednesday.

Boom Torque is unbeaten in three starts for Dunn since he was transferred from the Kacy Fogden barn and will be aiming for four straight in the Benchmark 68 Handicap over 1200 metres.

“He had three runs for Kacy before she retired from training and he came to me in great order,” Dunn said.

“She sent a couple of horses to me and he was one of them.

“His form was good when I got him and he’s a proper race horse and easy to train.

“He ran fifth in his last run for Kacy but he should have won that day."

Dunn will also saddle up stable mate Shanjomi in the same race on Wednesday.

Shanjomi is coming off a second-up fourth to Lucifer’s Loot in a 1000 metre Benchmark race at Ballina last month.

Dunn is keen to send Boom Torque to Sydney if he runs well at Doomben and believes he could measure up to the upcoming Queensland Summer Racing Carnival. 

“I’ve got him nominated for Eagle Farm on Saturday as well but more than likely he’ll go around at Doomben,” Dunn said.

“If he runs well, I’d like to take him to Sydney for a Highway race but this is still his first campaign and I don’t want to over tax him.

"I’ll see how he goes and how pulls up after Wednesday.”

Dunn would have liked to run Boom Torque in next month’s $2 million The Kosciuszko at Randwick but the son of Spirit Of Boom is ineligible.

“To be eligible he would have had to have been in my stable for 12 months and he’s only been with me for four or five months,” Dunn said.

“But, I definitely think he’s up to Saturday city grade and he’s a Magic Millions horse, so he could aim for a race that day.

“It’s hard to win a maiden and make it three in a row and I think he’s going to be very hard to beat again on Wednesday.”