Owners dreaming big with cleverly named colt
Anyone seeing Escobar in the flesh for the first time at Newmarket on Thursday will be excused a wry smile as there are few more-cleverly named horses in training than the son of Famous Name.
Named after the Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, whose cartel at one stage supplied an estimated 80 per cent of the cocaine smuggled into the US, the equine Escobar’s unique facial markings include one all-white nostril, which inspired owners Ian Jennings and Fiona Carmichael when it came to naming the Hugo Palmer-trained two-year-old.
“The second time we viewed him at the sales he looked nothing like the horse we’d seen earlier in the day because we were viewing him from the other side,” explains Jennings. “I said 'it's the wrong horse' but the lad explained about the one white nostril.
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