Awesome Feather On Course for Gazelle

11/18/2011 5:15 PM | horseracingnation.com

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2010's Champion 2-Year-Old Filly Awesome Feather is gearing up for her second start of 2011 in next Saturday's Grade 1, $250,000 Gazelle and will likely turn in her final work for the race on Monday, November 21.

Sidelined with a tendon issue for most of the year, Awesome Feather won her comeback race, the seven-furlong Le Slew stakes at Belmont Park on October 5, to remain a perfect seven-for-seven.

"She's on target for the Gazelle and is doing really well," said Chad Brown, who trains the daughter of Awesome of Course for Stronach Stables. "She'll probably breeze on Monday. She's held up really well and she hasn't had a bad day of training. Not one day. I'm excited to see her run around two turns at Aqueduct and see what she can do in a Grade 1."

The Le Slew was Awesome Feather's first start for Stronach and Brown. As a juvenile, she was campaigned by her breeder, Jacks or Better Farm, and trained by Stanley Gold. Stronach purchased her at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Fall Mixed Sale in 2010 for $2.3 million.

"It would be a nice reward for the Stronachs," Brown said of a victory in the Gazelle. "They have been patient with this filly and gave me a lot of leeway with her. I just make sure she is 100 percent every day when we go out there, and she has been. It would be nice to reward them for their patience. She's a really gutsy horse - she just has a great attitude about her."

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