Santa Anita

Prat picks up mount on Serengeti Empress for Breeders' Cup Distaff

Steve Andersen|Oct 21, 2019

Serengeti Empress trains at Saratoga Race Course on July 14

Barbara D. Livingston Serengeti Empress worked a half-mile in 46.79 over the main track at Saratoga on Sunday morning.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Flavien Prat, the leading rider in Southern California this year, will ride Kentucky Oaks winner Serengeti Empress in the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Distaff on Nov. 2 at Santa Anita, according to his agent, Derek Lawson.

The Breeders’ Cup Distaff is run at 1 1/8 miles for fillies and mares.

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Trained by Tom Amoss for Joel Politi, Serengeti Empress raced near the front and faded to sixth in the Grade 1 Cotillion Stakes on Sept. 21 at Parx Racing.

Serengeti Empress has won 5 of 11 starts, including fourstakes, and earned $1,282,120.

Prat had an excellent end to his week at Santa Anita, winning eight races from Friday through Sunday. He is second in the standings at the autumn meeting with 14 wins, one fewer than Abel Cedillo.

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