Zo Impressive could try CCA Oaks or await Alabama

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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