Oh So Awesome

Team Valor bought Oh So Awesome in March with the specific intention of starting the Awesome Again colt in the Belmont Stakes (G1) on Saturday,


Oh So Awesome, by Awesome Again

Awesome Again
Deputy Minister – Primal Force, by Blushing Groom (Fr)
Standing at: Adena Springs Kentucky
2006 fee: $125,000
First Year at Stud: 1999



Top Ten Runners By
Lifetime Earnings
Updated 5/30/2006

Ghostzapper $3,446,120
Wilko $1,814,574
Toccet $931,387
Spun Sugar $764,171
Personal Legend $744,805
Belenus $615,665
Round Pond $596,300
Awesome Action $450,339
Hotstufanthensome $417,220
Eishin Newton $371,032



Oh So Awesome finished third in an overnight stakes race on the dirt at Belmont Park on May 19 in his United States debut. The colt combines elements of two previous Team Valor horses who hit the board in the Belmont: he is a European import like 1992 runner-up My Memoirs (GB), and he is trained by Jimmy Jerkens, like 1998 third-place finisher Thomas Jo.

"I'm a little apprehensive about this, because we usually buy them based on talent, not pedigree," Irwin. "With him, we were banking 100% on his pedigree—that he would improve on dirt since he's by Awesome Again. That's the play on this one. It's worth a shot."

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