Serengeti Empress Retired, To Visit Into Mischief

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Serengeti Empress (Alternation), second to Gamine (Into Mischief) in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint on Saturday at Keeneland, has been retired and will be bred to Into Mischief, according to a Tweet from trainer Tom Amoss’s daughter Hayley on Twitter Wednesday morning.

“Said goodbye to Serengeti Empress yesterday with plenty of peppermints,” Tweeted Amoss, with a photo of herself and the filly taken in front of her stall Tuesday morning. “Sad that she will no longer be in the first stall at Tom Amoss’s barn, but thrilled that Joel Politi is keeping her a short drive away at Taylor Made. On to the next chapter of her legacy!”

Amoss said that Joel Politi would remain her owner and had no plans to sell her.

Mark Toothaker, the stallion sales manager at Spendthrift Farm, Tweeted, “What a filly. So happy Joel Politi and Tom Amoss allowed us the privilege to have her visit Into Mischief.”

In seven wins from 19 starts over three seasons, the four-year-old Serengeti Empress earned $2,175,653 and was a two-time Grade I winner, taking the Kentucky Oaks at three and the Ballerina at four. She earned three other graded stakes wins, taking the GII Azeri S. at Oaklawn, the GII Pocahontas at Churchill, and the GII Pocahontas at Churchill, and hit the board in five other Grade I stakes.

Serengeti Empress was a $25,000 Keeneland November weanling and $70,000 Keeneland September yearling.

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