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Awesome Act - Kentucky still the plan
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AWESOME Act remains bound for the Kentucky Derby, trainer Jeremy Noseda indicated this afternoon.
The son of Awesome Again followed last months Gotham Stakes win with a third-placed effort in the Grade 1 Wood Memorial behind Churchill Downs favourite Eskenderaya.
Nosedas charge found the lack of early pace to his disadvantage and wasnt able to deliver a challenge to the eventual winner, who had 10 lengths in hand at the line.
Noseda said: I dont want to take anything away from the winners spectacular performance. He looks an absolutely top-class horse.
But from Awesome Acts perspective, everything went wrong on the day. He stumbled coming out of the gate and pulled much too hard in what was a slowly run race.
So, when the sprint came at the finish, he was lacking the reserves to pick up.
I also felt, going into the race, that he could possibly bounce and I do think there was an element of that in that he definitely regressed from his first start of the year.
The hope is that he has got that out of the way and can move forward again as, at this moment, we are on course to run him in the Kentucky Derby.
Touch wood, he has come out of his latest race in good order and he ships down to Churchill Downs on Thursday.
The other question-mark and it will only be answered on May 1 is if he is capable of staying a mile and a quarter. He could just be an ideal American one-turn dirt miler.
So we are going to head to Kentucky and if he does stay a mile and a quarter then we still have a realistic chance of getting a piece of it.
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Awesome Act - Kentucky still the plan
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AWESOME Act remains bound for the Kentucky Derby, trainer Jeremy Noseda indicated this afternoon.
The son of Awesome Again followed last months Gotham Stakes win with a third-placed effort in the Grade 1 Wood Memorial behind Churchill Downs favourite Eskenderaya.
Nosedas charge found the lack of early pace to his disadvantage and wasnt able to deliver a challenge to the eventual winner, who had 10 lengths in hand at the line.
Noseda said: I dont want to take anything away from the winners spectacular performance. He looks an absolutely top-class horse.
But from Awesome Acts perspective, everything went wrong on the day. He stumbled coming out of the gate and pulled much too hard in what was a slowly run race.
So, when the sprint came at the finish, he was lacking the reserves to pick up.
I also felt, going into the race, that he could possibly bounce and I do think there was an element of that in that he definitely regressed from his first start of the year.
The hope is that he has got that out of the way and can move forward again as, at this moment, we are on course to run him in the Kentucky Derby.
Touch wood, he has come out of his latest race in good order and he ships down to Churchill Downs on Thursday.
The other question-mark and it will only be answered on May 1 is if he is capable of staying a mile and a quarter. He could just be an ideal American one-turn dirt miler.
So we are going to head to Kentucky and if he does stay a mile and a quarter then we still have a realistic chance of getting a piece of it.
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