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Nakhle’s Ego gets welcome boost with win

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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All Ego needs is no girls

4424230THE PATH which trainer Ben Foote plotted with Ego from the stabling barn to the birdcage at Ellerslie yesterday almost certainly won him the $85,000 New Zealand Bloodstock Concorde Handicap.

All he had to do was not copy most other red-blooded males on course yesterday and avoid noticing any females along the way.

Foote became strapper for the first time in longer than he could remember, determined not to have a repeat of the previous start at Pukekohe, when the randy stallion spotted a couple of fillies and became so wound up he couldn’t perform up to his best.

Yesterday his sole job was to sight where the four mares in the race were heading, and to go in the opposite direction.

And, after getting the horse on to the track very relaxed and focused, Ego did the rest, leading virtually throughout to give owners Daniel and Elias Nakhle back-to-back Concorde wins, after Irish Colleen won the feature last year.

 

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Lazarus performance by Ego

Ego (5 B. H. E Dubai – Buckling, by Redoute’s Choice) greatly enhanced his stallion prospects by winning the $85,000, Group II, New Zealand Bloodstock Concorde Handicap over 1200-metres at Ellerslie on Saturday, and in the process gave trainer Ben Foote his best win.
Father and son owned, by Elias and Daniel Nakhle, Ego was procured for $62,000 from the draft of Bluegables Farm at the 2007 New Zealand Bloodstock Select Yearling Sale by the junior of the two, Daniel, and on Saturday at Ellerslie he took his earnings to $105,000 when recording his fifth win.
While rider Paul Taylor was required to lose a bit of sweat to make the 51.5-kilograms, it was also a requisite for Ego to produce plenty of effort after travelling along in front at a strong tempo.
As challengers loomed wider on the track, Ego continued to find plenty against the rail to beat the fast finishing Amaryllis (Red Ransom) by a neck, with one-and-three-quarter-lengths to group one winner Vonusti (Ustinov), in third.
The time for the 1200m on footing rated Good3 was 1:10.17, and Ego returned healthy odds of $13.00 & $3.70 on the NZ TAB.