Prince Of Boom capped a fabulous winter carnival for Robert Heathcote with another win at Eagle Farm, vindicating the trainer’s decision to bypass the Stradbroke.

Prince Of Boom was slugged with 60kg and jumped from the widest gate, but punters hopped into him like he was unbeatable in the Group 3 Healy Stakes.

And so it proved as “The Prince” had to do work to get across at the start but then simply ran his rivals into the ground after leading for home in the $200,000 Eagle Farm sprint over 1200m.

Strongly backed from $2.70 into $2.25, you probably could have heard the cheers from the next suburb when Prince Of Boom made it two Queensland winter carnival wins on the bounce.

Robert Heathcote could have raced Prince Of Boom in the Group 1 Stradbroke after easily winning the Moreton Cup which carried a golden ticket into the Stradbroke.

But he thought 1400m at Group 1 level might be a bridge too far and instead opted to keep his powder dry for the Healy. It proved a masterstroke.

Heathcote has enjoyed a fabulous winter carnival and Prince Of Boom – and an earlier Eagle Farm win with Ekaterina – were the cherries on top.

There was even extra satisfaction when Heathcote trained the quinella in the Healy, thanks to talented sprinter The Big Goodbye.

But to the winners go the spoils and it was a mighty effort from Prince Of Boom, who first burst on to the scene in 2021 when winning the Champagne Classic in his two-year-old season.

It hasn’t all been smooth sailing since – at one point he had wind operation and also had a Melbourne spring campaign where not much went right.

But the cream rose to the top in the Healy.

Heathcote may now look at options in the Sydney spring carnival for Prince Of Boom.

Jockey Tim Clark, who has ridden the sprinter to his last two wins, is full of admiration.

“He’s got a good cruising speed, this horse,” Clark said.

“He breaks their hearts a bit during the middle stages.

“He was starting to feel the pinch late with the big weight and probably coming towards the end of a pretty hard preparation.

“He was really brave and did a great job.

“He’s a very talented horse.”