Awesome Bet will look to cap his season with a win in the Zia Park Derby at Zia Park
Already a pro at racing with 13 starts in no time, the 3-year-old colt Awesome Bet will be leading the $150,000 Zia Derby field which consists of five 3-year-old male runners, who will battle it out over a distance of one and one sixteenth miles on 3 December,
2011.
Trained by Steven Asmussen for owner Mike McCarty, Awesome Bet has had a tough time coming of maiden special weight races. It took the colt 6 races to get out of the hole and compete against tougher opponents who have achieved and proved their mettle in
stakes company.
Back in 2010, Awesome Bet kicked off his racing career at Keeneland over a distance of six furlongs but finished fourth. Went to Churchill Downs with longer distance to contend, Awesome Bet at a mile didn’t find it easy there as well.
Next for Awesome Bet was to stick to Fair Grounds race course and its dirt track and with three unsuccessful tries over distances ranging from 1 mile 40 yards to 1 mile and 70 yards, Awesome Bet finally came over his maiden stakes troubles to land one in
his 4th attempt at Fair grounds and 6th overall.
On 11 March, 2011, Awesome Bet bid farewell to maiden stakes company and immediately landed an allowance race at Oaklawn Park race course over a distance of a mile beating Forgotten Knot marginally in second place and Bluegrass Jam in third with the winning
time of 1 minute and 38.04 seconds.
Not up the mark in the Lone Star Derby, where he finished seventh but came back strong to land the Barbaro Stakes at about 1 1/16 miles on dirt at Del Mar on 9 July, 2011.
Bob Baffert trained Prayer for Relief won the next two races which Awesome Bet participated in. He finished fifth to Prayer for Relief in the Grade 2 West Virginia Derby run over a distance of 1 1/8 miles and then finished second to him again in the Grade
2 Super Derby at 1 1/8 miles, inching ahead of Populist Politics who finished third at Louisiana Downs on 10 September, 2011.
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