AMERICAn-bred Mismyrtleboyrichie displayed the characristics of a champion race horse in the making when capturing the $715,000 Ash Wednesday Trophy feature race in majestic style when romping 1,300 metres by 7 1/2 lengths at Caymanas Park on Wednesday.

It was the colt’s debut as a three-year-old and the freshman son of Mingun clocked an eye-opening 1:18.3 to continue with the fast times from where left off as a two-year-old last season.

Owned by Jigzy Blade and conditioned for the races by Tony Kirlew, Mismyrtleboyrichie was put to the front from the off by jockey Omar Walker, as is his custom, and he stayed there until the wire intervened, while dictating easy fractions of 24.1, 47.4, 1:11.3 in wet underfoot conditions to continue his winning way among Overnight Allowance horses, three-year-olds upward.

Raise A Ruckus, another imported runner ridden by Dick Cardenas, was second at odds of 4-1. Machismo, an 8-1 chance ridden by leading jockey Shane Ellis, held on for third another 4 1/2 lengths back with his stablemate Regal Sensation completing the frame as a 28-1 betting option in the field of eight.

Kirlew was not surprised by the manner in which he acquitted himself among three-year-olds for the first time.

“He has been training well and this was not a particularly strong field, but he is such a talented colt who has been showing improvement and I’m expecting him to be among the top performers later in the season,” Kirlew said.

A richly bred bay colt by Mingun out of Two Punch Christy (Two Punch) and bred by Hickory Ridge Farm in the USA Mismyrtleboyrichie was winning for the six consecutive time from eight starts with two second-place finishes and earned $390,400 as the winner’s share for a backroll of $3,008,900 lifetime.