The venerable gelding Awesome Gem, winner of the Grade 3 Longacres Mile at Emerald Downs in his most recent start Aug. 21, will soon be on the road again. Trainer Craig Dollase said he will point the 8-year-old to the Grade 2, $500,000 Hawthorne Gold Cup on Oct. 8. Awesome Gem has won 9 races and more than $2.6 million from 46 starts on 17 different surfaces. “If it’s wet and muddy, so much the better,” Dollase said. Awesome Gem splashed his way to victory in 2009 in the 1 1/4-mile Hawthorne Gold Cup, run over a muddy track. Awesome Gem, purchased for $150,000 at the Barretts 2005 March Sale of 2-year-olds in training, has been around so long that his career past performances includes a start at Del Mar on dirt.