During the race Monday, May 6 at Gulfstream ParkElena Racing’s Juvenile Pony, Amazingly strong became the winner on first claim and first winner for freshman boar Awesome Slew . The Florida mutt scored on a six-length lead for trainer Jorge Delgado to beat six other pups in the special maiden weight class in 4 1/2 lengths in the dirt.
Awesome Strong found himself intercepted in the middle of the first leg, moving inwards to split the leaders approaching quarterfinals, and clearly going into the long haul to outpace the finisher in position Monday No answer . His last was: 51.62. Awesome Strong paid $4.80 on a $2 bet.
Don’t Answer was outdone by the third place finisher Captain Creed .
The pony is out of the fight Pleasant Tap mare Pleasant Ring and bred by John B. Penn in Florida. Awesome Strong was signed by Sue Vacek to the October 2021 ‘Ocala Breeders’ Promotion, selling to Elena Racing for $30,000.
The Pleasant Ring is the beating of six of her 10 ponies, all of which have already started. She is the dam of the equity winner, Level 3 bad debt multiple times.
Awesome Slew, a 9 year old son of Great again , is the classified multi-stakes winner, accumulating $1,223,310 in earnings. He finished third in the Las Vegas Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1) 2017.
He stands at Ocala Stud for a fee of $4,000 in 2022.
