The Valley - Friday 26th November 2021

By Ben Caluzzi Paul Lofitis, managing owner of Lofty Throughbred Group, purchased The Awesome Son for just $32,500 in an online auction earlier this year. A son of Not A Single Doubt and a three-quarter brother to champion colt The Autumn Sun, the bargain buy has already paid his way two times over and is proving a more magnificent sale with every week that passes by. Originally purchased for $900,000 by Aquis Farm in 2019, the four-year-old gelding is no doubt a well-bred commodity but having had nine official trials before his first race start, it is reasonable to assume he had his fair share of issues early days. In fact, The Awesome Son had already had three trainers before he found his new permanent home with Cranbourne trainer Julius Sandhu, which included time under Chris Waller, Annabel Neasham and Kacy Fogden. Under his three previous caretakers though he had a different name. Lofitis and Sandhu bought the horse when his name was Foscolo and decided to re-name him after his five-time Group 1 winning brother – a casual exchange that took place between the pair in May. “We were at Sydney for the Weanling Sales. Paul and I were just having a chat. “We were throwing names around and this one popped into our heads considering the brother’s name The Autumn Sun as in S-U-N. It seemed like a nice name, and it stuck,” Sandhu said during the week. The Awesome Son has had seven starts under Sandhu for two wins, and his latest victory in the THE AWESOME SON BEGINNING TO SHOW GLIMPSES OF AWESOME BROTHER