When his trainers began relaying glowing reports about a speedy young colt in the stable, Auckland owner Daniel Nakhle knew he had the perfect name for him.
He had been driven mad by his daughter Angelina, who hadn’t then learned to talk, racing around the house, babbling what sounded like ”ego, ego, ego”.
”I thought ‘if I can find a horse who can go as fast you I’ll be doing all right’,” Nakhle revealed after E Dubai colt Ego held off the late-finishing Amaryllis to win Saturday’s Gr II $85,000 Concorde Handicap (1200m) at Ellerslie.
The win completed a memorable double for Nakhle and his father Elias, who had last year celebrated winning the Concorde with the Stephen McKee-trained Irish Colleen when the race was run at Avondale.
But the journey to Group success had been anything but plain sailing.
The $62,000 Karaka yearling sale buy, Ego nearly died of colic as a two-year-old and it was only through the quick response from his then trainer Leanne Bertling that he was saved
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