Awesome Speed showed little in his Parx debut Aug. 31, but came alive with a 3 3/4-length graduation score over this track and trip Oct. 10. He was flattered when the third finisher from that heat Vorticity (Distorted Humor) came back to win impressively at Aqueduct last Sunday, and took a little play down from a 10-1 morning line. Trading jabs with favored King Kranz through splits of :22.41 and :45.79, he eventually wore down that stubborn rival and held off a late bid from Never Gone South to get it done. “Last time when he broke his maiden he was looking at everything and I had to keep him busy with my whip because once he tried to stop down the stretch,” winning rider Horacio Karamanos said. “Today, he broke good out of the gate. I didn't want him to be on the lead, so I saw [King Kranz] on the lead I just sat outside him. When we took the lead he was strong to the wire… This horse is going to improve. He's a very nice horse.” The winner's second dam is MSW Great Escape, who produced MSW and local GI Frank J. De Francis Memorial S. runner-up Just Call Me Carl (Strawberry Road {Aus}). Speedy Escape has a yearling filly by Tizway and a weanling filly by Animal Kingdom and was bred back to Elusive Quality.
JAMES F. LEWIS III S., $100,000, LRL, 11-14, 2yo, 6f, 1:09.67, ft.
1–#AWESOME SPEED, 120, c, 2, by Awesome Again
1st Dam: Speedy Escape, by Aptitude
2nd Dam: Great Escape, by Relaunch
3rd Dam: Great Finesse, by Bold Bidder
($80,000 Ylg '14 KEESEP; $335,000 2yo '15 FTFMAR). O-Colts
Neck Stables LLC; B-H. Allen Poindexter (KY); T-Alan E.
Goldberg; J-Horacio Karamanos. $60,000. Lifetime Record:
3-2-0-0, $83,100.[bullet ad=”selectsales-shell”][bullet ad=”sbmtrainingandsales-brokenandtrained”]
2–Never Gone South, 120, c, 2, Munnings–Summer Rules, by
Perfect Soul (Ire). ($52,000 Wlg '13 KEENOV; $38,000 Ylg '14
FTKOCT; $90,000 2yo '15 OBSAPR). O-M M G Racing Stable;
B-Bend Or Thoroughbreds, USA (KY); T-Cathal A. Lynch.
$20,000.
3–King Kranz, 117, c, 2, Munnings–Queen Congie, by Henny
Hughes. ($25,000 Wlg '13 KEENOV; $37,000 RNA Ylg '14
FTKJUL; $95,000 2yo '15 OBSMAR). O-Zayat Stables, LLC;
B-Bob & Alice Austin (KY); T-John P. Terranova, II. $10,000.
Margins: 3/4, NK, 4HF. Odds: 6.90, 2.80, 0.80.[bullet ad=”selectsales-shell”][bullet ad=”machmer-hall-pinhooked-and-raised”][bullet ad=”darbydan-shell”][bullet ad=”mckathan-brothers-training-grad”]
Also Ran: Voluntario, Discreet Lover, Corvus, Fifth Avenue Flash, In R Defence, Reademndeletem. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.
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