Welch Racing’s Epic Ride made the short trip Saturday morning from the nearby The Thoroughbred Center for a test run over the Keeneland turf course and a possible start in next Saturday’s $1.25 million Coolmore Turf Mile (G1).

“I just want to see how he likes it and how (jockey) Edgar (Morales) liked it,” trainer John Ennis said prior to sending Epic Ride out onto the course that was rated as good.

Working solo, Epic Ride covered three-eighths of a mile in :38.60 with Morales all smiles coming off the track. “I never asked him,” said Morales, who has ridden Epic Ride in his past two races and would have the mount in the Coolmore Turf Mile.

“He looked good to me,” Ennis said. “That made my day. I would hate to have to race against him.”

In April, Epic Ride worked on the Keeneland turf before opting to run on the dirt in the Commonwealth (G3). His past three races have been on the grass with the past two coming at a mile.

“He’s a different horse on grass,” Ennis said of Epic Ride, winner of the FanDuel TV Mint Millions Invitational (G3) at Kentucky Downs on Sept. 6. “He ran third to Sierra Leone (in the 2024 Toyota Blue Grass-G1) on dirt and he has improved on the grass.”

Epic Ride, who was 14^th in the Kentucky Derby (G1) Presented by Woodford Reserve, will return to Keeneland from across town next Saturday morning for the Coolmore Turf Mile.