Awesome Again - Mais Oui, by Lyphard
2000 Chestnut - Entered Stud: - Fee: $5,000 Stands and Nurses
Awesome of Course


Awesome of Course
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Sire of Undefeated Champion AWESOME FEATHER

  • The highest average per starter in Florida - $115,090.
  • The highest 2-year-old average per starter in the nation - $132,243.
  • The Highest Beyer by a filly beyond a mile in 2012.
  • Florida's 2nd Leading Sire of Juveniles for 2011.
  • His 2YOs won eight of the 12 Florida Stallion Stakes run in 2010/2011.
  • Five SWs from 30 starters lifetime; 4 SWs from 18 starters in 2011.
  • 2011 2YOs: 3 SWs from 7 starters - AWESOME BELLE ($300,000 My Dear Girl by 7 1/2), FORT LOUDON ($300,000 In Reality S. by 2 1/2), multiple SW REDBUD ROAD, all homebreds for Jacks or Better Farm.
  • 80% winners from starters (24 of 30) - 23% SHs from starters (7 SHs, 5 SWs).
  • Sire of unbeaten Champion AWESOME FEATHER ($1,861,746), 9-for-9 in 2010/2011/2012:
    • $2,000,000 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) by 2 ¼ lengths
    • $250,000 Gazelle S. (G1) by 5 ¼ lengths
    • $350,000 My Dear Girl S. (8 ½f) by 8 ¼ lengths
    • $300,000 Florida Sunshine Millions Distaff by 5 ¾ lengths
    • $100,000 Susan’s Girl S. (7f) by 4 lengths
    • $75,000 Desert Vixen S. (6f) by 4 ¾ lengths
    • $100,000 J J’sdream S. (5 ½f) by ½ length
    • $60,000 Le Slew S. (7f) at Belmont in 1:22 3/5
    • $39,000 maiden special weight (4 ½f) by 5 ¾ lengths
  • AWESOME FEATHER topped the 2010 FTKNov Sale, selling to Frank Stronach for $2,300,000.
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Champion Awesome Feather turned in yet another scintillating performance in the $300,000 Sunshine Millions Distaff S...
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Track announcer Tom Durkin called Awesome Feather's performance “perfect” as the 3-year-old filly crossed the wire in the Grade 1 Gazelle S. to run her record to a flawless 8-for-8...
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Brent & Crystal Fernung's Journeyman Stud announced no increases to fees for its 14-stallion roster for 2012, headlined by Wildcat Heir, Florida's 2011 Leading General Sire, and Awesome of Course, Florida's 2011 Leading Juvenile Sire...
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Fort Loudon drew away late en route to a 2 1/2-length win in the $300,000 In Reality S. Oct. 15 at Calder...
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Awesome Belle dominated her competition in the $300,000 Florida Stallion My Dear Girl S...
Wednesday, October 05, 2011
Awesome Feather, last year's 2-year-old filly Eclipse champion, returned in style to win her first start of 2011 in the $60,000 Le Slew S. Oct. 4 at Belmont Park...
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Awesome of Course sired a first, a second and a third in two Florida Stallion Stakes races August 27, further expanding his lead as Florida’s #1 Juvenile Sire...
Friday, August 12, 2011
No one could have expected that a stallion standing in Oklahoma for $1,750 after failing to attract enough patronage to stay afloat in Florida would sire a Breeders' Cup winner and champion. But that was exactly what happened when Awesome Feather charged home first in the 2010 Grey Goose Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (gr. I)...
Friday, August 12, 2011
While the heavy heads were trading blows and taking headlines at Saratoga, the quietly successful stallion Awesome of Course was racking up a pair of stakes winners in the Dr. Fager and Desert Vixen divisions of the Florida Stallion Stakes at Calder...
Saturday, August 06, 2011
A pair of 2-year-olds by Awesome of Course topped off a great Aug. 6 for Journeyman Stud at Calder Race Course...
Saturday, July 02, 2011
Redbud Road and Awesome Belle completed a one-two finish in the $100,000 J J'sDream S. July 2 at Calder.
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
A pair of 2-year-olds by Awesome of Course will represent Florida's leading juvenile sire of 2011 in this weekend's Breeders' Cup...
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Two-year-old filly 2010 Eclipse Award winner Awesome Feather was ranked at the top of the 2010 Experimental Handicap...
Monday, January 17, 2011
Awesome of Course had a brilliant 2010 capped off at the Eclipse Awards on Jan. 17 when his daughter Awesome Feather was named the 2-year-old filly champion...
Wednesday, December 01, 2010
Brent & Crystal Fernung's Journeyman Stud announced its 14-stallion roster with fees for 2011...
Monday, November 08, 2010
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...

Race Record:

Age Starts 1st 2nd 3rd Earnings
2 6 3(1) 0 0 $92,210
3 8 2(2) 0 0 $60,230
  14 5(3) 0 0 $152,440

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Awesome of Course Generational Pedigree

Dosage Profile: DP = 8-0-18-0-0 (26) DI = 1.89 CD = 0.62
AWESOME AGAIN (CAN)
b. 1994
DEPUTY MINISTER (CAN)
b. 1979
VICE REGENT (CAN)
ch. 1967
NORTHERN DANCER (CAN)  b. 1961 [BC]
VICTORIA REGINA (CAN) ch. 1958
MINT COPY (CAN)
dkb/br. 1970
BUNTY'S FLIGHT (CAN) b. 1953
SHAKNEY (USA) dkb/br. 1964
PRIMAL FORCE (USA)
b. 1987
BLUSHING GROOM (FR)
ch. 1974 [BC]
RED GOD (USA) ch. 1954
RUNAWAY BRIDE (GB) b. 1962
PRIME PROSPECT (USA)
b. 1978
MR. PROSPECTOR (USA) b. 1970 [BC]
SQUARE GENERATION (USA) ch. 1969 *
MAIS OUI (USA)
b. 1987
LYPHARD (USA)
b. 1969 [C]
NORTHERN DANCER (CAN)
b. 1961 [BC]
 NEARCTIC (CAN) br. 1954
NATALMA (USA) b. 1957 *
GOOFED (USA)
ch. 1960
COURT MARTIAL (GB) ch. 1942 [B]
BARRA (FR) ch. 1950
AFFIRMATIVELY (USA)
b. 1981
AFFIRMED (USA)
ch. 1975
EXCLUSIVE NATIVE (USA) ch. 1965 [C]
WONT TELL YOU (USA) b. 1962 *
STRAIGHT DEAL (USA)*
b. 1962
HAIL TO REASON (USA) br. 1958 [C]
NO FIDDLING (USA) b. 1945 *
courtesy of Pedigree Query

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