Report: Echo Zulu Euthanized Following Stall Accident

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L and N Racing and Winchell Thoroughbreds' Eclipse Award-winning 'TDN Rising Star' Echo Zulu (Gun Runner–Letgomyecho, by Menifee), was euthanized Sunday at the Chino Valley Equine Hospital in Southern California, Daily Racing Form reports. Trainer Steve Asmussen told the Form's Steve Andersen that the filly became cast in her stall and injured herself when trying to get back on her feet.

“She was beyond special. My condolences to all who loved her,” Asmussen told the Form.

Named the champion of her generation in 2022 in a four-for-four season capped by a dominating victory in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, the $300,000 Keeneland September graduate was a dual winner at the graded level and second in the GI Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint at three. She was perfect in three starts at four in 2023, with a victory over eventual Filly & Mare Sprint and Eclipse Award repeater Goodnight Olive (Ghostzapper) in the GI Ballerina H. at Saratoga. She was training towards a start in the Breeders' Cup when she suffered fractured sesamoids in an October workout and had been at the clinic since.

Bred in Kentucky by Betz/J. Betz/Burns/CHNNHK/Magers/CoCo Equine/Ramsby, Echo Zulu posted a record of 9-1-0 from 11 starts and earnings of $2,640,375.

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