Gotham winner Awesome Act went an “easy” half-mile in 50.43 Saturday morning as he continued preparations for the Grade 1, $750,000 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct Racetrack on April 3.

With exercise rider George Windsor in the irons, the English import went out on Belmont Park’s training track shortly after the second renovation break in his first timed move since taking the Grade 3 Gotham on March 6.

“It was nice and easy,” said Wayne Tanner, assistant to trainer Jeremy Noseda. “He’s taken to it here like a duck to water.”

Tanner said the son of Awesome Again, owned by Mrs. Susan Roy, would have a more serious breeze next week, most likely Thursday morning. Noseda is scheduled to fly in for the work.

In his first start on dirt, and first start since finishing fourth in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf last November, Awesome Act rallied strongly through the stretch to win the Gotham impressively, covering the 1 1/16th miles in 1:43.85.

Nominations close today for the 1 1/8th mile Wood Memorial at Aqueduct Racetrack, New York’s final major stepping stone to the Triple Crown.

In addition to Awesome Act, likely candidates for the Wood include Grade 2 Fountain of Youth winner Eskendereya and runner-up Jackson Bend as well as Yawanna Twist, who was second in the Gotham. Saturday morning at Aqueduct, Yawanna Twist worked a half-mile in 50.38.