Speightstown Colt Whooshes Home to ‘Rising Star’-dom

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Sent off the lesser-preferred half of an uncoupled Steve Asmussen-trained entry at 13-1, ECHO TOWN (c, 3, Speightstown–Letgomyecho, by Menifee) was consigned to a three-wide, no-cover trip, but nonetheless went through his gears in a fast final quarter-mile to become the afternoon’s second ‘TDN Rising Star’ in the Big Easy. Content to track from off the pace while monitoring the every move of his even-money stablemate Earner (Carpe Diem), a $425,000 Keeneland September graduate, Echo Town-himself a $100,000 purchase by the connections of GI Kentucky Derby runner-up Lookin At Lee (Lookin At Lucky)-ranged up three wide outside of Earner nearing the stretch, claimed that one with relative ease with about a furlong to travel and was ridden out through the final sixteenth of a mile to score by about three lengths in a time of 1:09.39. His final two furlongs were clocked in a slick :23.49. A son of the 2005 GII Forward Gal S. winner Letgomyecho, Echo Town is a half-brother to J Boys Echo (Mineshaft), victorious in the GIII Gotham S. in 2017; and to Grade III-placed juvenile Unbridled Outlaw (Unbridled’s Song). Echo Town is a half-brother to a Candy Ride (Arg) colt that fetched $150,000 at KEESEP last fall and a yearling colt from the first crop of Horse of the Year Gun Runner. Letgomyecho visited fellow Horse of the Year American Pharoah in 2019. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0. O-L & N Racing; B-Betz, J Betz, Burns, CHNNHK Thoroughbred & Magers (KY); T-Steve Asmussen.

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