New Zealand trainer Jeff Lynds has rounded out the year with yet another Group One triumph.Lynds won his sixth elite race for the year and his eighth in 15 months when Booming got up in the final strides to take the Zabeel Classic (2000m) at Ellerslie on Boxing Day.Booming's triumph added to three from Vosne Romanee since the end of September 2008 - one of them including the Zabeel Classic last year - and four from Wall Street including the Emirates Stakes on the final day of the Melbourne Cup c

New Zealand trainer Jeff Lynds has rounded out the year with yet another Group One triumph.

Lynds won his sixth elite race for the year and his eighth in 15 months when Booming got up in the final strides to take the Zabeel Classic (2000m) at Ellerslie on Boxing Day.

Booming's triumph added to three from Vosne Romanee since the end of September 2008 - one of them including the Zabeel Classic last year - and four from Wall Street including the Emirates Stakes on the final day of the Melbourne Cup carnival.

"We've had a lot of good horses over the years, but we've sold a number of them," Lynds said.

"We've just kept working hard."

Lynds had hoped to get Booming to the Melbourne Cup this year after his Auckland Cup second in March but decided to concentrate on home racing after establishing he would have a tough job earning a Cup start.

"He had a nagging cough which meant we couldn't run in the Sydney Cup and he's only really just shaken it off this season," Lynds said.

"He's a good horse and after winning this hopefully he'll go up the weights and that will get him a better chance of a Cup start next year."

In the meantime, Booming is likely to head to the Marton Cup before taking on the Wellington Cup in late January.

He could also be back for the Auckland Cup in March.

Booming was a late pick-up ride for Vinny Colgan, who only got the mount after Opie Bosson was stood down from riding after the first race.

"Jeff told me I was number one pick once Opie couldn't make it," he said.

"He gave me a great run and once he got out in the open he picked up really well."

Booming's triumph came at the expense of favourite Red Ruler and Ginga Dude, who were fighting out the finish until Booming breezed past near the line.

Red Ruler put up a brave effort after working up 700 metres out to pressure the front-running Ginga Dude, who had got away with easy sectionals in the middle of the race.

Trainer Graeme Boyd said Ginga Dudewould not run again until March, when he would head back to Australia.

Ginga Dude had a three-start spring campaign in Melbourne for a win in the Group Three David Jones Cup, third to So You Think in the Group One Mackinnon and fourth in the Sandown Classic won by Zipping.

Booming's win topped off a great day for his sire Don Eduardo, whose daughter Dashing Donna earlier won the listed Newmarket Handicap.