Awesome Again Horse

Jerry Bailey, riding Skip Away, blamed defeat on the track. Frankie Dettori, aboard Swain, blamed it on the lights. But no matter how the richest race in the world is analyzed, Awesome Again was the best horse at Churchill Downs on Saturday, and now even his trainer is saying he's the best horse in the barn.

Jerry Bailey, riding Skip Away, blamed defeat on the track. Frankie Dettori, aboard Swain, blamed it on the lights. But no matter how the richest race in the world is analyzed, Awesome Again was the best horse at Churchill Downs on Saturday, and now even his trainer is saying he's the best horse in the barn.

Awesome Again won the Queen's Plate at Woodbine, but there was a charge that his stablemate interfered with a rival and the outcome is under appeal. Awesome Again won the Jim Dandy Stakes, but it was in the goo of Saratoga, and trainers of horses he defeated used the sloppy track as an excuse. Awesome Again will try to win again in today's $750,000 Travers, and his trainer, David Hofmans, isn't sure whether he wants the track to be off or fast.

Awesome Again won the Queen's Plate at Woodbine, but there was a charge that his stablemate interfered with a rival and the outcome is under appeal. Awesome Again won the Jim Dandy Stakes, but it was in the goo of Saratoga, and trainers of horses he defeated used the sloppy track as an excuse. Awesome Again will try to win again in today's $750,000 Travers, and his trainer, David Hofmans, isn't sure whether he wants the track to be off or fast.

Something will have to give today when a couple of hot horses get together in the sixth race at Santa Anita. Awesome Dividend, a 5-year-old Awesome Again horse, has won two in a row for owners John and Bettina Deininger and trainer Bob Baffert and he'll try to beat up on one of his elders in the $41,000 starter allowance race at 1 1/16 miles.