Six-year-old Booming made it back-to-back Group One wins with a stunning victory in the $NZ200,000 Thorndon Mile at Trentham on Saturday.He had won the weight-for-age Zabeel Classic (2000m) at Ellerslie on Boxing Day before being given a brief let-up.The Don Eduardo gelding burst from the pack and charged through on the rail for an emphatic half-length win, beating fast-finisher Dasoudi and brave mare Eileen Dubh who led from the start until after the turn and refused to give in.Booming was bril

Six-year-old Booming made it back-to-back Group One wins with a stunning victory in the $NZ200,000 Thorndon Mile at Trentham on Saturday.

He had won the weight-for-age Zabeel Classic (2000m) at Ellerslie on Boxing Day before being given a brief let-up.

The Don Eduardo gelding burst from the pack and charged through on the rail for an emphatic half-length win, beating fast-finisher Dasoudi and brave mare Eileen Dubh who led from the start until after the turn and refused to give in.

Booming was brilliantly ridden by Japanese jockey Masa Tanaka for the Jeff Lynds stable.

Despite his big Auckland win against a top field, punters shied away from him on Saturday and he drifted to odds of better than 16-1.

Favourite November Rain showed little in the run, finishing 12th.

Meanwhile, outsider Spiro stunned punters with a gutsy run down the straight to capture Saturday's Group Two Wellington Cup (2400m).

Carrying 53kg and ridden by unfashionable jockey Kane Smith, the five-year-old hit the front as the field straightened for the run to the line and put a break on the others.

Spiro, who paid better than 28-1, looked a sitting duck for the challengers as they came at him but held them all out.

In the last 100m veteran Six O'Clock News and Loose Change charged at Spiro but he wouldn't give in, winning by three-quarters of a length.

Six O'Clock News edged Loose Change by a head to take second.