Nice work for Awesome Act yesterday
DiscreetCat
Moderator
from DRF:
AWESOME ACT (six furlongs in 1:13.05):
As usual, Awesome Act worked in company with his stablemate Peace Town, who broke off approximately 2 1/2 lengths in front when the pair left the six-furlong pole. With his regular rider, Julien Leparoux, aboard, Awesome Act remained reserved a couple of lengths behind his target through early fractions of 13.12, 25.15, and 36.94 seconds. Winner of the Gotham, Awesome Act eased out while picking up the pace exiting the three-furlong pole, moving alongside Peace Town entering the stretch, and readily pulled away through a final furlong completed in 12.68 under mild encouragement from Leparoux.
According to my colleague David Grening, who had seen this same scenario played out on a couple of occasions before Awesome Act's earlier races in New York, Awesome Act usually shut down immediately after he crossed the wire and was consistently passed in the gallop out by his mate. It was encouraging, then, that he continued to widen his advantage on Peace Town this morning, galloping out seven furlongs with perhaps a little renewed interest in 1:27.11.
It was not a "blow-away" type of workout but good enough to keep him among the second echelon of Derby contenders behind the favored Eskendereya.
AWESOME ACT (six furlongs in 1:13.05):
As usual, Awesome Act worked in company with his stablemate Peace Town, who broke off approximately 2 1/2 lengths in front when the pair left the six-furlong pole. With his regular rider, Julien Leparoux, aboard, Awesome Act remained reserved a couple of lengths behind his target through early fractions of 13.12, 25.15, and 36.94 seconds. Winner of the Gotham, Awesome Act eased out while picking up the pace exiting the three-furlong pole, moving alongside Peace Town entering the stretch, and readily pulled away through a final furlong completed in 12.68 under mild encouragement from Leparoux.
According to my colleague David Grening, who had seen this same scenario played out on a couple of occasions before Awesome Act's earlier races in New York, Awesome Act usually shut down immediately after he crossed the wire and was consistently passed in the gallop out by his mate. It was encouraging, then, that he continued to widen his advantage on Peace Town this morning, galloping out seven furlongs with perhaps a little renewed interest in 1:27.11.
It was not a "blow-away" type of workout but good enough to keep him among the second echelon of Derby contenders behind the favored Eskendereya.