If you were watching the R75 1100 event at Riccarton yesterday, it would have been hard not to be impressed by Amberecho’s emphatic victory.
The word on the street before the race was that front-runners were going to find the head-wind difficult to manage. Our daughter of Echoes of Heaven has always liked to lead, so there wasn’t an over-abundance of confidence in my mind as to how matters would turn out.
I shouldn’t have worried. Amberecho jumped well, settled outside the leader and engaged her afterburners with 300 to go, leaving her rivals well and truly astern.
Hopefully, she’ll be competitive in black-type events before the end of the season.
Our other Echoes of Heaven progeny, the four-win gelding Our Echo, scored a comprehensive victory at last week’s Ashburton trials. He’d been suffering from a wind affliction before his Trentham win in January; shortly afterwards it worsened to the extent that an operation was required.
We’re very grateful to Australian vet Ian Fulton for performing said operation, which to date has been successful. Echo won’t be appearing over the Riccarton carnival; he could well kick off at Cromwell later in November.
And there’s more. Our broodmare Misty Trella foaled an Echoes of Heaven filly some three weeks ago. The mare has produced nothing of note so far but, in my opinion, the mating is a cracker. Will the EoH factor be enough to produce a decent racehorse?
