April'08 - Greyhounds Queensland
April'08 - Greyhounds Queensland
April'08 - Greyhounds Queensland
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Group 2<br />
Vince Curry Maiden<br />
(520m) Ipswich<br />
1 RED ACES $9<br />
(November Fury-Dimple’s Choice)<br />
Owner: Dustin Boody<br />
Trainer: Mick Boody<br />
2 LADY MOSCATO $8.40<br />
(History Lesson-Lady Kero)<br />
3 CONJURE LOVE $15<br />
(Hallucinate-Mint Mojo)<br />
Others:<br />
4 Champ Ali $1.80<br />
5 Tonic’s Pride $8.90<br />
6 Morayfield Flash $15<br />
7 Shock And Awe $11<br />
8 Spiral Burow $17<br />
Time: 30.89<br />
APRIL 5<br />
Maiden Final (420m) $645<br />
Blue Paws 5th Grade (520m) registered winner bonus<br />
$600<br />
Maiden (420m) $300<br />
Maiden (520m) $300<br />
Border Sprint (420m) Best 8, $450<br />
Stayers Stake (652m) 1-4 wins, $450<br />
APRIL 12<br />
2 x Maiden Heats (420m) $300<br />
Maiden (520m) $300<br />
Tweed Valley Stake (520m) Best 8, $450<br />
Stayers Stake (652m) 1-5 wins, $450<br />
4 x April Novice Heats (420m) 1-4 wins, $450<br />
APRIL 19<br />
April Novice Final (420m) winner $400<br />
Maiden Final (420m) winner $400<br />
Legacy Cup (420m) Best 8, winner $600<br />
2 x Maiden Heats (420m) $300<br />
Stayers Stake (652m) 1-4 wins, $450<br />
APRIL 26<br />
Blue Paws 5th Grade (420m) $450, registered winner<br />
bonus $600<br />
Maiden (520m) $300<br />
Maiden Final (420m) $300<br />
Coolangatta Stakes (520m) Best 8, $450<br />
Stayers Stake (652m) Best 8, $450<br />
Red aces Curry rivals<br />
By<br />
DAVID BRASCH<br />
TAKE one look at 53-year-old Mick Boody<br />
and you’ll immediately think he is a wisened<br />
old jockey … and you would be pretty close<br />
to the mark.<br />
But in fact, Mick is a Group winning<br />
greyhound breeder and trainer, having been<br />
thrust into the national spotlight with the<br />
victory of Red Aces (November Fury-<br />
Dimple’s Choice) in the Group 2 Vince Curry<br />
Maiden at Ipswich.<br />
It’s a time-honoured series, one of the<br />
MAY 3<br />
2 x Maiden Heats (420m) $300<br />
Maiden (520m) $300<br />
Blue Paws 5th Grade (520m) $450 + Blue Paws bonus if<br />
registered<br />
Tweed Valley Sprint (420m) Best 8, $450<br />
Stayers Stake (652m) 1-5 wins, $450<br />
MAY 10<br />
Mixed Final (420m) $645<br />
Maiden (420m) $300<br />
Maiden (520m) $300<br />
4 x May Novice Heats (420m) 1-4 wins, $450<br />
Border Sprint (420m) Best 8, $450<br />
Stayers Stake (652m) 1-5 wins, $450<br />
MAY 17<br />
Blue Paws Maiden (420m) $300 + Blue Paws bonus if<br />
registered<br />
Coolangatta Stake (420m) Best 8, $450<br />
Stayers Stake (652m) Best 8, $450<br />
2 x Tweed Valley Stake Heats (520m) $450<br />
2 x Maiden Heats (520m) $300<br />
MAY 24<br />
Maiden (420m) $300<br />
Maiden (520m) $300<br />
Mixed Final (520m) $645<br />
Blue Paws 5th Grade (520m) $450 + Blue Paws bonus if<br />
registered<br />
Coolangatta Stake (420m) Best 8, $450<br />
Tweed Valley Stake (520m) Best 8, $450<br />
toughest in the land, and has been won by<br />
such greats as Just The Best and Token Prince<br />
just to name a few.<br />
Jockey-like Mick might be short in stature<br />
but he’s nuggety and tough and never short<br />
of an opinion. He’s got that way from a lifetime<br />
in racing.<br />
He was riding trackwork when he was 10<br />
and breaking in thoroughbreds when he was<br />
14.<br />
His dad Desmond did just the same<br />
around the thoroughbred tracks of Brisbane.<br />
Des was a also greyhound trainer and<br />
youthful Mick watched and learned from his<br />
dad.<br />
“I worked for Bruce McLachlan, Eric<br />
Kirwan, Henry Davis, Danny Duke, riding<br />
work and breaking in their young horses,”<br />
Mick told The Journal.<br />
He also dabbled in training himself,<br />
battling away with $1500 thoroughbreds<br />
winning a few, losing a few.<br />
“About 20 years ago when John Hawkes<br />
and Gai Waterhouse and Bart Cummings and<br />
the likes all decided to have stables in<br />
Brisbane, Amber and I decided we would<br />
head north,” said Mick.<br />
They settled on Mackay.<br />
Mick’s best horse was Sir Ovett who failed<br />
to earn prizemoney only four times in 26 starts<br />
and broke the track record when winning the<br />
Ingham Gold Cup. He also ran second in the<br />
Cairns Amateur Cup.<br />
“My jockey got into trouble because he<br />
reckoned we had won the Cairns Amateur<br />
Cup. The photo finish didn’t work and during<br />
an argument, he decked someone. A club<br />
official, I think.”<br />
Mick gave horses away in the late 1990s<br />
and took up training greyhounds.<br />
He had instant success. Amby’s Love won<br />
a Bundaberg and Rockhampton Cup a few<br />
years ago and Izy Fast proved himself a<br />
brilliant sprinter.<br />
Mick and Amber decided the big smoke<br />
was for them so they headed back home.<br />
Two years ago they moved south to take<br />
over Noble Park where they bred and reared<br />
and trained a team of dogs.<br />
Among those to come with him was a bitch<br />
called Dimple’s Choice a daughter of<br />
Nujooloo-Little Miss Agro who had been a<br />
handy galloper for Mick in Mackay winning<br />
nine races but who suffered from not having<br />
enough races over longer distances.<br />
“She was a litter sister to Dream Return<br />
who won quite a few 600m races at Albion<br />
Park for Tom Noble,” said Mick.<br />
Dimple’s Choice had trialled 25.90 around<br />
Ipswich’s 431m just after breaking in to show<br />
her potential.<br />
“I was inexperienced in dogs and while<br />
she sprinted well early in her career I didn’t<br />
pick that she was crying out for more distance<br />
until later,” said Mick. “I’d race her first-up<br />
over 300m in Mackay and she would ping out<br />
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The (April, 2008) Journal Page 6
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