Those who say Flat racing lacks atmosphere need to wake up and get to Newmarket. No winner at the Cheltenham Festival has been cheered in to the enclosure more vociferously by a sell-out crowd than the 2,000 Guineas hero Bow Echo and his fellow young bucks George Boughey and Billy Loughnane. At the age of 20, Loughnane is perhaps not quite still Billy the Kid but he is now Billy the Classic winner. Boughey beat him to it, four years ago, and a similarly rousing reception was given to his 1,000 Guineas winner Cachet. This though was another level.High emotion was scrawled across the faces of those in the extended Boughey party and the trainer himself, usually so breezily collected, struggled to halt the tears as he faced the first of many interviews in the wake of his emphatic success with a colt who has been thrilling him all winter. “I'm just trying not to cry. I don't get too emotional, but to win both Guineas as a Newmarket trainer is pretty cool,” said Boughey, who, at 34, is two years younger than Aidan O'Brien was when he first completed the Guineas double. That's quite the mark in the sand. Liam O'Rourke, who has overseen the bloodstock empire of Bow Echo's late owner-breeder Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum for years through his role at Darley, was another who found his usual calm demeanour shaken by Bow Echo's electric performance. “I wish he was with us,” O'Rourke said of the sheikh, his voice cracking. Those same colours had been carried to glory two years ago in the Irish 2,000 Guineas by Rosallion, who had finished runner-up at Newmarket to Notable Speech. “We tried hard to win this race two years ago, and we nearly did,” he continued. “And then this guy came out of nowhere last year and he's never let us down. He's still unbeaten. There's no bottom to him. He keeps finding more.“The idea was to sit with him and kick later. We weren't entirely sure he'd see out the mile up a punishing finish like Newmarket has, but he saw it out beautifully.”O'Rourke added, “George has done a super job. He was adamant, as was [Bow Echo's] late owner, that the horse would go to the Guineas without a start. And that was the late owner's decision from a very early stage.“I must admit, at the time. I didn't think he was a Guineas horse. How right he was.”It is not an overstatement to say that shockwaves rippled through bloodstock circles in that usually quiet week between Christmas and New Year when the news was announced of Sheikh Mohammed Obaid's sudden passing. As the cousin of Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum, he was always closely allied with Darley while also very much steering his own course.Sheikh Mohammed Obaid's homebred Oaks d'Italia winner Zomaradah gave the operation Dubawi at a time when a flagship stallion was badly needed in the wake of the death of Dubawi's own sire Dubai Millennium. Now, Dubawi's son Night Of Thunder is the reigning champion sire and, significantly on this particular day, is the sire of Bow Echo. The Darley stallion ranks also contain three young Sheikh Mohammed Obaid homebreds in Rosallion, Triple Time and Inisherin – all three Group 1 winners from the same family of another of his outstanding broodmares, Reem Three. Bow Echo, more appropriately still, is from Dubawi's female family, with Zomaradah featuring as his third dam. Boughey was quick to dismiss ideas that the horse might be considered for the Derby but he does clearly have a thrilling miler on his hands. A rematch between Bow Echo and his runner-up Gstaad at the Curragh in three weeks' time is a prospect to savour. Wherever Bow Echo goes, Loughnane will go with him. He may still be young but the jockey towers over the majority of his weighing-room colleagues. We can but hope that the Flat is not robbed of his talents too soon.He owes his start in the sport to his father, Worcestershire trainer Mark Loughnane, who taught him to ride.“I've wanted to be a jockey ever since the day I could talk,” Loughnane said. “It took so much work to be where I am today and I'm very fortunate to ride this horse. “I was in tears when I was giving my dad a hug. They've put so much work into me.”There were plenty of proud dads around the winner's enclosure, including James Boughey and George's partner Laura's father James Toller, who won the Irish 2,000 Guineas 22 years ago with Bachelor Duke. Saturday, though, was a day for the young generation, for two of the brightest stars of the training and riding ranks and their pooling of talents in the most exciting three-year-old of the season so far. The post Newmarket Echoes to the Roar of the Young Generation appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.