Serengeti Empress Turns In First Work Since KY Oaks
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Photo: Rick Samuels
Serengeti Empress during the post parade for the Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs
Joel Politi's Longines Kentucky Oaks (G1) winner Serengeti Empress returned to the Churchill Downs work tab May 17 with a half-mile move in :48 flat.
Trained by Tom Amoss, the daughter of Alternation worked just prior to the track's first renovation break at 6:50 a.m. ET through splits of :12 2/5, :24 1/5, and :36 2/5 before galloping out to five furlongs in 1:00 4/5 and completing her work with a gallop out to six furlongs in 1:14, according to Churchill Downs' clocker John Nichols.
"I thought she really looked super this morning," said Amoss, who reported Serengeti Empress could make her next start in the June 8 Acorn Stakes (G1) at Belmont Park. "We're still on target and letting her tell us what to do next."
The Acorn is expected to attract the 1-2 finishers of the Kentucky Oaks, Serengeti Empress and Liora.