Wishing For A Heroine [6-9 D&T]

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Registered Name: Wishing For A Heroine
Barn Name: Andromeda (Annie)
Age: Y11
Gender: Filly
Color: Bay
Markings: White star and blaze
Height: 16.2hh

Personality: Annie is a highly stung and temperamental filly already and is quite happy to have a go at you if you let your guard down around her. After all, letting your guard down makes you fair game there therefore she can have her fun, which can be quite a painful thing around her as she likes to use her teeth. While not completely volatile like some other horses - meaning it is actually possible to handle her without a team - she is no push over and makes sure that everyone knows it.
You are probably best off allowing Annie to believe that she is the boss. If she believes she is in charge and that you are following her lead she will give you a much easier life and will in fact handle like a dream. Try to blatantly control her, however, and she'll fight against you in every stride. Some of the grooms have a theory that it is best to walk on eggshells around her and treat her like a princess to avoid kicking her off, which is easily done and when it happens she throws a temper tantrum knowing full well she can get away with it.

On The Track: Annie likes to run with the pack for the majority of the race, slotting herself on the nearside a little behind the proceders and using them to pace her own race. She is very much a precision racer and will race in a very set way. She will start to push up the field with about four furlongs of the race left and really makes her break at two furlongs. The speed exprienced at this point is huge as she throws her heart and soul into the home stretch. She shows great spirit and determination and will not give an inch, even when she begins to tire.

Pedigree:



Pedigree Comments: The lines of this filly are somewhat impressive and are not something to turn your nose up at. Sired by Hall of Fame inductee, Everyday Hero, she really has the potential to go far. After all, great horses come from great sires. Everyday Hero won 18 races during his career and earned over $1million, a feat which was no doubt helped by his abilities both on turf and dirt track. Star's dam is Warm Wishes, a mare who ran 28 races in her career. She won sixteen of those races and placed in another five showing her great passion for running and her spirit.
Warm Wishes has two other foals on the racing circuit - Beyond The Limits and Wish Upon A Star, who is the full sister of Andromeda. Now retired, Beyond The Limits was a G1 horse having won 19 of his 44 starts and earning $27,000,000. Wish Upon A Star is a prospect who is also owed by Silver Stride Stables.
Everyday Hero has three other foals - yearling Strictly a Hero; Vindictive Fury, a four year old who has reached G2 status; and Wish Upon A Star.
The full sister of Andromeda, Wish Upon A Star, is showing great potential having won GHF's Next Top Racehorse Race One*.