Grade 1 Mother Goose winner Zo Impressive returned from Saturday’s
three-quarter-length victory over Disposablepleasure in good order, trainer Tom
Albertrani reported Sunday morning, and will likely make her next start at
Saratoga in either the Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks on July 21 or the
Grade 1 Alabama on August 18.
“She came out of the race great,” said Albertrani, who trains the gray Hard
Spun filly for Live Oak Plantation. “We’re going to look at the Coaching Club;
if she’s training well, that will likely be her next start, or the Alabama.”
The Mother Goose was the first graded stakes win for Zo Impressive, who had
finished second to Contested in the Grade 1 Acorn on May 28 and second to Grace
Hall in the Grade 2 Gulfstream Park Oaks on March 31. Overall, she is 3-2-0 from
five starts.
“With her family, pedigree-wise, that really was a big race for her,” said
Albertrani of Zo Impressive, who is out of the Grade 1 winner Zoftig, making her
a half-sister to 2008 Grade 1 Acorn winner Zaftig.
“When she broke on top, which is exactly what she did in her two races at
Gulfstream, she could easily have been in front,” he added.
“We said, ‘If she breaks quick, take her back, and give her a target.’ Our
plan was to let them go, give her a target, and stay two lengths off the lead.
She was in perfect position.”
In other news from the Albertrani barn, Buffum, an eight-length winner of an
optional claimer on May 28, is scheduled to breeze five-eighths Monday morning
in preparation for his next start, the Grade 2 Suburban Handicap on July 7.
Brilliant Speed, most recently fifth in the Grade 1 Manhattan Handicap on
June 9, is under consideration for the Grade 1 Man o’ War on July 14.
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