High-class colt Storm Boy set to continue career overseas

Storm Boy appears to have run his last race in Australia with owners Coolmore announcing he will continue his career overseas. The high-class colt, who finished third as favourite in the Golden Slipper, will join the powerful Aidan O’Brien team at Ballydoyle with a view to competing in some of Euorpean racing’s biggest sprints. “Talented three-year-old Storm Boy will travel to Ireland to be trained by Aidan O’Brien at Ballydoyle, with a view to contesting top sprint races in Europe next season,” Coolmore said via X on Tuesday.

Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today Prepared by Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott, Storm Boy was an emphatic winner of the San Domenico Stakes (1100m) first-up in August before placing in The Run To The Rose (1200m). He was beaten just over half a length when fourth to Broadsiding in the Group 1 Golden Rose (1400m) and finished within two lengths of form mare Bella Nipotina in The Everest (1200m). Coolmore purchased a managing stake in Storm Boy following his Magic Millions Classic win earlier this year and stand his sire Justify at their American base.



Storm Boy could find himself on a collision course with another of Coolmore’s top three-year-olds in the Chris Waller-trained Switzerland. Waller flagged a possible Royal Ascot tilt for Switzerland next year following his outstanding victory in Saturday’s Coolmore Stud Stakes (1200m) at Flemington..