Bred by Flaxman Holdings in Kentucky, Awesome Act was sold for $240,000 as a Keeneland September yearling. He is out of Houdini's Honey (Mr. Prospector

Mr. Prospector

Mr. Prospector was a thoroughbred racehorse foaled in Kentucky, whose descendants have been dominant in the United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing. He won half of his 14 career races.-Background:...

). Awesome Act is by 1998 Breeders' Cup Classic

Breeders' Cup Classic

The Breeders' Cup Classic is a Grade I Weight for Age thoroughbred horse race for 3 year olds and older run at a distance of 1¼ miles on dirt. It is held annually at a different racetrack as part of the Breeders' Cup World Championships...

 winner Awesome Again

Awesome Again

Awesome Again is an Canadian Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse. Owned and bred by Frank Stronach of Newmarket, Ontario, Awesome Again was sired by Deputy Minister and out of the 2000 Broodmare of the Year Primal Force....

, making him half brother to Ghostzapper

Ghostzapper

Foaled in Kentucky on April 6 in the year 2000, the thoroughbred racehorse Ghostzapper won the Breeders' Cup Classic in 2004, outdistancing Roses in May by three lengths in a stakes record of 1:59.02...

 (2004 Horse of the year), Ginger Punch

Ginger Punch

Ginger Punch is an American Thoroughbred filly racehorse. Owned and bred by operations belonging to automotive parts magnate, Frank Stronach, she is out of the mare Nappelon and sired by the Canadian-bred Awesome Again, winner of his country's 1997 Queen's Plate and the 1998 Breeders' Cup Classic...

 (2007 Champion Older Mare), Wilko (2004 Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner), and Round Pond

Round Pond (horse)

Round Pond is a retired American Thoroughbred racehorse bred in Kentucky by Trudy McCaffery & John Toffan. The bay filly is the daughter of Awesome Again out of the mare Gift of Dance. Owned by Rick Porter's Fox Hill Farms, Round Pond was trained by Michael R...

 (Breeders Cup Distaf winner).

The bay colt is owned by Susan Roy/Vinery Stables. He is trained by British based Jeremy Noseda

Jeremy Noseda

Jeremy Noseda is a British racehorse trainer.After six years working for John Dunlop, and five years as assistant to John Gosden, he joined Sheikh Mohammed's Godolphin operation in late 1993, and played a significant role in training such horses as Lammtarra, Halling and Balanchine.He started...

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Two Year Old Season

Awesome Act won just once from six starts at age two, in a seven-furlong maiden race in England. He also had a second place finish in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf, beaten by 1 1/4 lengths by Pounced

Pounced

Pounced is a Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf-winning thoroughbred racehorse owned by Lady Rothschild. He was retired to stud in 2010.He is a son of Rahy who stands in Kentucky and the Storm Cat mare Golden Cat....

. He ended his 2009 season with a record of six starts and one win, two seconds, and a third.

Three Year Old Season

On March 6, 2010, he made his dirt and three-year-old debut in the Gotham Stakes

Gotham Stakes

The Gotham Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old horses run in early March at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, New York. A Grade III event with a purse of $250,000, it is set at a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt...

, a Grade III prep race at Aqueduct. Awesome Act burst from the pack at the top of the Aqueduct stretch en route to victory. His next start was scheduled to come in the Wood Memorial Stakes

Wood Memorial Stakes

The Wood Memorial Stakes is an American flat Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds held annually at Aqueduct Racetrack in Jamaica, New York. It is currently a Grade I race run over a distance of 9 furlongs on dirt....

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