New trainer Forster happy with She'sgottheboom

By Glenn Davis

Talented filly She’sgottheboom will launch her bid for successive QTIS Jewel victories when she returns for new trainer Desleigh Forster at Doomben on Saturday.

Only one galloper, the Kelly Schweida-trained The Odyssey, has the distinction of winning both the two-year-old and three-year-old QTIS Jewel crowns since the race began a few seasons ago.

She’sgottheboom, who returns in the QTIS Three-Year-Old Handicap over 1110 metres, was trained by Steven O'Dea and Matthew Hoysted when she claimed the QTIS Jewel for two-year-olds at the Gold Coast last March.

She has since transferred to the stable of Forster. 

“She’s done everything right since she’s been with me and she’s been in work long enough,” Forster said.

“This looks a nice race for her to start off her campaign.”

Forster has given She’sgottheboom – a Boris Thornton mount - one barrier trial at Doomben last week to prepare for her first-up assignment.

“Her trial was very good and she won well enough,” she said.

A strong showing in the QTIS Jewel for three-year-olds later this year could see her aimed at the Queensland winter carnival.

The $500,000 QTIS Jewel will be run at Doomben on March 18 while track renovations are undertaken at its normal venue at the Gold Coast.

She’sgottheboom started her career in brilliant fashion, leading all the way to win a maiden at Doomben a year ago.

She repeated the feat with another all-the-way win the QTIS Jewel Prelude over 1100 metres at Toowoomba last March before keeping her unbeaten record intact in the QTIS Jewel two weeks later.

Her QTIS Jewel triumph earned her a spring trip to Melbourne for the Group 3 Quezette Stakes over 1100 metres at Caulfield in August last year.

However, the daughter of champion sire Spirit Of Boom let her followers down in her Caulfield debut, resuming with a fading effort behind the Archie Alexander-trained Bound For Home.

Connections decided to keep She’sgottheboom in Melbourne to spell rather than return her home and transferred her to Peter Moody.

But, she had only a short preparation without starting for the trainer of former champion Black Caviar and was then moved on to Forster, who has had a long and successful association with Moody.