"...........The burly bay contested the Group 3 BJ McLachlan Stakes at Eagle Farm around Christmas time on his next start, and strolled to another easy victory after dictating the pace and leaving his rivals for dead Storm Boy was in a league of his own in the Magic Millions 2yo Classic on the Gold Coast in January. He dominated from the front and pulled clear in the home straight for an impressive victory once again, earning the post-race comment ‘far too good’ from Racenet. But for a really accurate assessment of his superior performance, and physical edge over his rivals, it’s hard to improve on podcaster Nick Foot’s description of him after the race as “like one of those kids at school in year seven who has a moustache already and beats up on everyone at football” Storm Boy soon established himself as the hottest property in Australian racing, and he became the subject of a fierce bidding war between stallion farms, with Coolmore last month reportedly seeing off nearest rival Yulong with an offer that put the colt’s value at more than A$50m (£25.8m, €30.1m) if he were to win the Golden Slipper, ATC Sires’ Produce Stakes and Champagne Stakes He is now a short-priced favourite to win the Golden Slipper at Rosehill on March 23. If he turns up at the western Sydney racecourse in top form, it’s hard to see how anything else will be able to live with that superpower of cruising at a high speed and quickening again to put the race to bed And if Storm Boy does go on to confirm himself the exceptional talent that he is repeatedly signalling himself to be, it would be no surprise if Coolmore chose to shuttle him to Europe when he retires to stud On a practical level, it would surely be the operation’s most desired course of action, in order to recoup the massive investment as quickly as possible"
