Awesome of Course

Jacks or Better Farm’s Florida homebred 2-year-olds Fort Loudon and Awesome Belle each earned a trip to Kentucky to run in the rich Breeders’ Cup races at Churchill Downs on the weekend of Nov. 4-5 after winning the $300,000 In Reality and $300,000 My Dear Girl divisions of the Florida Stallion Stak...Read More

There is, of course, a story about how Awesome of Course, sire of 2010's apparent champion juvenile filly Awesome Feather, came to be heading to the stallion barn at Brent and Crystal Fernung’s Journeyman Stud in Ocala, Fla. One of the reasons is that Brent is widely considered to be a blo...Read More

The 2010 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies had contenders from the powerful barns of Bob Baffert, Rick Dutrow, and Todd Pletcher, but they all took a back seat to undefeated Calder shipper Awesome Feather. The Florida-bred daughter of Awesome Of Course wore down Pletcher's pacesetter R Heat Lightning t...Read More