Imprimis back on work tab with eye on Silks Run

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Nearly 200 horses worked over the main and Tapeta surfaces here Sunday morning, among the most noteworthy the multiple graded stakes-winning turf sprint specialist Imprimis, who breezed three furlongs in 36.40 seconds over the synthetic strip. The work was his first since returning to training following tie-back throat surgery during the fall.

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“I was excited about going to the barn and working him yesterday,” Orseno said Monday. “He wound up hooking in with another team out there, but my rider did a great job getting him away from them. The last thing I needed was for him to try to run by those horses in his first work back. He seems to enjoy the synthetic. I think it’s a little kinder on him, and I have no problem getting him ready on that track.”

Orseno said if all goes well he’s hoping to bring Imprimis back for the five-furlong Silks Run here March 19 as a prep for the Grade 2 Shakertown in April at Keeneland, a race he won in 2019 and lost by a nose last spring.