Echo Zulu Returns To Winning Ways in Dogwood

Reigning champion 2-year-old filly Echo Zulu made it five stakes wins for her sire Gun Runner with a dominant performance in the GIII Dogwood S. under the lights at Churchill Downs. She was last seen tasting defeat for the first time in GI Longines Kentucky Oaks. Steve Asmussen trainee won the GI Spinaway S and GI Frizette S before capping her championship season with the 5 1/4-length victory in GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies S on June 11.

Echo Zulu won $274,000 at Churchill Downs on Saturday. She is a daughter of 2005 GII Forward Gal S. winner Legomyecho and a half-sister by American Pharoah. The half sister sold for $1.4 million at the 2021 Keeneland September sale. Her pedigree is: Letgomy echo, Menifee, Eastern Echo, First Samurai, Indian Bay, and Kashie West.