Awesome Speed Archives • The Racing Biz

Weekend Hideaway tabbed as Fabulous Strike favorite

Weekend Hideaway is the lukewarm morning line favorite in a full field for Penn National’s Thanksgiving eve Fabulous Strike Handicap.

Grade 3 Pat Day Mile winner Sharp Azteca figures to be a major player in a stacked rewnewal of the City of Laurel Stakes on Saturday.

In our Preakness profiles, we provide an in-depth look at each of the contenders for Saturday’s big race. In this one: Awesome Speed.

Awesome Speed doesn’t have the best resume in Saturday’s Preakness, but trainer Alan Goldberg figured it’s worth “taking a shot.”

Yesterday and Today highlights the best of yesterday’s mid-Atlantic racing and looks ahead to today’s action.

After a head-bobbing battle, Awesome Speed was placed first via disqualification over Governor Malibu in today’s Federico Tesio Stakes.

Saturday’s allowance feature at Laurel Park will be a showdown including two stakes-winning distaffers; plus Laurel Park racing notes.

A pair of juveniles, Awesome Speed and Lost Raven, scored their first stakes victories today at Laurel Park on the De Francis Dash undercard.