2010 Fee:
$50,000 Live Foal
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Payable October 1 of year bred
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- Sire of 10 Grade 1 winners, 4 Breeeders' Cup winners & 4 Multi-Millionaires
- "...it is the sheer brilliance of his best offspring that ranks (Awesome Again) among the most important and successful contemorary stallions."- John P. Sparkman
- Leading active sire of Breeders' Cup winners
- Sire of more multi-millionaires than A. P. Indy
- Sire of six stakes winners in 2010, including Grade 1 winner Awesome Gem and the 3yo graded stakes winners Awesome Act & Game On Dude
- Sire of a $350,000 colt at the 2010 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Select sale
- 25% of Awesome Again's stakes winners are Grade 1 winners
- Sire of a $625,000 yearling at Keeneland September, bought by Bob Baffert, agt. as the highest-priced colt of Day 3
- A Top 5 North American Sire by Oppenheim 'A Runner Index'
- Yearlings have sold for $1,400,000, $900,000, $875,000, $750,000, etc.
- Sire of the brilliant & sensational Horse of the Year Ghostzapper, now an exciting young stallion
- Sire of 6 Eclipse finalists in the past 8 years, including Champion Older Mare Ginger Punch
- “I love training the offspring of Awesome Again. He is a hell of a
stallion. He throws a very nice individual. Their soundness goes along
way”- leading California trainer Craig Dollase
- Only active stallion with 8 U.S. Grade 1 winners in his first 4 crops
- Only Breeders' Cup winner to sire 4 Breeders' Cup winners
- Sire of Grade 1 winner Round Pond, who topped the 2007 FTNOV Sale at $5,750,000
- Sire of Grade 1 winner Spun Sugar, the highest-priced U.S. in-foal mare of '07, $4,500,000
- "Awesome Again looks like he contributes a quality that does not necessarily show up...to the naked eye--his progeny are tough and ready to rumble."--Robert Fierro
- Deputy Minister's most accomplished son, out of 2000's Broodmare of the Year
- Won the Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) over one of the strongest fields ever
- "Is there any kind of offspring that Awesome Again cannot produce?"--Laffit Pincay III, on HRTV
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