Awesome of Course, sire of undefeated Breeders’ Cup winner and Fasig-Tipton November Sale Topper Awesome Feather, will stand the 2011 season at Brent and Crystal Fernung’s Journeyman Stud, it was announced today. His stud fee will be $5,000, stands and nurses.

The nation’s No. 3 Juvenile Sire with progeny earnings just shy of $1.5 million, Awesome of Course has had exceptional results from limited opportunity. From just 26 named foals, he has 20 starters, 15 winners, and four stakes horses. His 3.06 AEI has been accomplished with a 1.35 mares’ Comparable Index.

Awesome of Course shot onto the national radar this year due to the scintillating accomplishments of Awesome Feather. Bred in Florida by Fred Brei’s Jacks Or Better Farm, the two-year-old filly is undefeated in six starts this year, five of them stakes. On November 5th, Awesome Feather strode to a decisive victory in the $1.8 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1). Two days later, she sold for $2.3 million to Frank Stronach at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky November Breeding Stock Sale, highest price by far at the venue. One of just four fillies in history to sweep the Florida Stallion Stakes Series, Awesome Feather is the front-runner for Champion Two-Year-Old Filly honors.

“We are delighted to welcome Awesome of Course to the Journeyman stallion roster,” said Brent Fernung. “He’s from the first crop by Awesome Again, and we had followed his career, from his stakes victory at two to his multiple stakes wins at three. He sired a pretty good stakes winner in his first crop, Honey Honey Honey. But Awesome Feather is in another league all together, and her sale price proves he can be commercial as well. We expect he'll draw plenty of interest from breeders.”

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