Tencendur experiments by working on turf

What do you do with a horse who finishes next to last in the Kentucky Derby? One option is to try working him on turf, which is what trainer George Weaver did with Tencendur on Saturday morning at Belmont Park.
With jockey Manny Franco aboard, Tencendur breezed five furlongs in 1:02.67 around the dogs, finishing well after walking through an opening three furlongs. He finished a head behind workmate High Noon Rider at the wire.
“I thought the horse worked okay,” said Weaver. “I always feel when you want to find out if a horse likes the grass and you work him on the turf, you get a ‘wow’ reaction, and I didn’t get that feeling this morning. But he’s out of a Hennessey mare, and his sister was Mother Russia and she was turf. I think right off the bat, my reaction was we don’t need to be going out of our way to run him on the turf at this moment. I’ll probably come back and work him next week on the dirt and kind of compare. Manny’s been on him, and he said he likes him a little better on the dirt.”
Tencendur, a New York-bred, has won once in six starts, earning a trip to the Kentucky Derby with his second-place finish behind Frosted in the Grade 1 Wood Memorial.
“He really didn’t have an excuse in the Derby,” said Weaver. “It just wasn’t his day.”
Weaver also said that High Noon Rider would make his next start in the Penn Mile at Penn National or the Pennine Ridge at Belmont Park, both on May 30.