Career Highlight For Boody In Townsville Cup

MICK Boody has always been a patient man and when More Peaches flew the lids and led throughout to win Friday night's Group 2 Townsville Cup (498m) it was a career highlight and a just reward for the trust he had in his judgement.

More Peaches (Sennachie-New Abode) scored by a length and a quarter over Young Rob with Balts Orson in third, two and a quarter lengths away. The winner ran 28.60.

A former thoroughbred man, Mick Boody, and wife Amber, have been churning out quality greyhound winners for decades. “I'm 69 in November and Amber and I have been married for 46 years,” he said.

Initially based in Mackay, then in south-east Queensland, they have been in Rockhampton for the past two years.

It is a tribute to Mick and Amber's faith in their bloodlines, the Townsville Cup winner tracing to Top Talker (her third dam) who the Boody's raced with success.

MORE PEACHES goes all the way in the Townsville Cup ?

The Michael Boody-trained chaser was too good from the inside box, keeping her rivals at bay in the $75,000 Group 3 feature! ? @TSVgreys #QLDisRacing? pic.twitter.com/s9lXo9Tc3P

— RaceQ (@RaceQLD) August 25, 2023

She is from the same direct family as G1 star One Tree Lee and comes from the famed Spanish Dance family so successful for the Hallinan family.

More Peaches is an impressive race bitch having now started just 18 times for 12 wins and her earnings now are $121,000.

She is owned by Mick's sister Michelle Luhrs.

More Peaches has always shown ability and won her first six starts before finishing unplaced in the final of the G3 Rockhampton Cup in April behind Shipwreck.

But, she is a real home bred.

Her dam New Abode (Lochinvar Marlow-Ponzie Scheme) won 12 races, mostly over 400m around Albion Park and Ipswich.

But, she has been an outstanding broodbitch.

Her first litter, by Thirty Talks, included Love You Peaches (26 wins, $77,000) and Blue Jeans Talk (16 wins, $55,000) trained by Mick and Amber.

Love You Peaches was a finalist in the G3 Bundaberg Cup, and Blue Jeans Talk a finalist in the Brett Memorial Maiden and Country Cup at Albion Park.

More Peaches, at only two years and three months, is a highly promising youngster.

“We switched from thoroughbreds to greyhounds in 2000,” said Mick. “This is a real team effort between Amber and myself.”

“It is our biggest thrill. We won the Vince Curry final but we have been trying for a while to win this one.

“We had Stolen Lollies the winner of a Young Guns at Townsville in 2013 when he broke the track record. But he only got to be first reserve for the final and until Friday night that is the closest we have been.”

Mick Boody gave More Peaches a prime preparation for the Townsville Cup the bitch running third in a 498m top grade, then winning her heat in 28.54 beating Winlock All Over.

A series of perfect inside box draws, have been the recipe for success in the Cup, giving the Boody family it's greatest success.

“We will look to head to Ipswich later in the year for the Futurity and Gold Cup there,” said Mick of More Peaches' plans. “And, if she progresses as we would hope, the Gold Bullion in the New Year will be a target.”