The Similkameen News Leader
Sports Page - July 10, 2007
THIS HORSE IS LOOKIN' AWESOME!
If you were to search the internet for the horse Lukin Awesome, you would soon discover this dark brown/brown gelding comes from pretty solid stock and has been setting racetracks on fire in the past couple years.
Owned by Princeton residents Dave and Lynda Gould, who own and operate Vermilion Forks Automotive Service on Copper Mountain Road, and trained by Jim Strachan, Lukin Awesome has amassed some pretty impressive stats in a short race career.
Sired by Regal Intention, the 2005 Champion BC Juvenile Sire and Second Leading Lifetime Sire in BC with over $12-million in progeny earnings and sire of no less than 24 stakes winners, Lukin Awesome was bred in BC by Leo and Norma Shaw (April 17, 2003).
The stats show a lifetime of 17 starts (prior to Princeton's race meet) where the horse collected three wins and three places for lifetime earnings of well over $85,000.
The 5 1/2 furlong Currie Cup on June 29th was a race that fit Lukin Awesome perfectly. The Stakes race was for three year olds and older, non-winners of three or four races lifetime.
With a total of eight horses in the race, some Lukin Awesome had already raced against, the stage was set. The local horse blazed through the course with a time of 1:06.76 - the second fastest time of the day for that length of race.
It's obvious to horse enthusiasts that this is just the beginning of bigger and better things for Lukin Awesome.
Gould told the News Leader last week that after the win, Racing Days President John Bey asked him to comment and he was at a loss for words. What Gould wanted was to thank everyone responsible for bringing racing back to Sunflower Downs.
