NEWS: RACING

Tiz the Law, Simply Ravishing fly NY flag at Breeders’ Cup

Wednesday, October 28th, 2020

Tiz the Law, winner of the Belmont and Travers this summer, is among 11 pre-entered for next month’s Breeders’ Cup Classic at Keeneland. NYRA Photo.

By Tom Law

New York-bred Grade 1 winners Tiz the Law and Simply Ravishing are among the 201 horses pre-entered for the 2020 Breeders’ Cup and both figure prominently in their respective races on the Nov. 6-7 World Championships card at Keeneland Race Course.

Sackatoga Stable’s Tiz the Law, winner of the Belmont Stakes and two other Grade 1s in 2020, is among 11 pre-entered for the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic. The 3-year-old son of Constitution finished second in the Kentucky Derby in his most recent start, which came four weeks after his victory in the Grade 1 Travers Stakes at Saratoga Race Course.

Bred by Twin Creeks Racing and foaled at Sequel Stallions in Hudson, Tiz the Law brings a record of 6-for-8 to the Classic for trainer Barclay Tagg. He’ll attempt to become the fourth Breeders’ Cup winner bred in New York, joining 2017 Filly and Mare Sprint winner Bar of Gold, 2014 Filly and Mare Turf winner Dayatthespa and 2013 Marathon winner London Bridge.

Eight New York-breds have run in the Classic – Thunder Rumble, L’Carriere, Gander, Funny Cide, Effinex Haynesfield, Zivo and Mind Your Biscuits. Two finished second– Effinex to American Pharoah in 2015 at Keeneland and L’Carriere to Cigar in 1995 at Belmont Park.

The 1 ¼-mile Classic attracted the other two winners of Triple Crown races in 2020 in Kentucky Derby winner Authentic and Preakness-winning filly Swiss Skydiver, who is cross-entered in the $2 million Distaff. Others pre-entered for the Classic are By My Standards, Global Campaign, Higher Power, Improbable, Maximum Security, Tacitus, Title Ready and Tom’s d’Etat.

Simply Ravishing, dominating winner of the Grade 1 Darley Alcibiades Stakes on Opening Day of the Keeneland fall meeting, is pre-entered in the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies and $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf.

Owned by the partnership of Harold Lerner, Sherri McPeek’s Magdalena Racing and Nehoc Stables and trained by Kenny McPeek, Simply Ravishing was entered with a first preference for the 1 1/16-mile Juvenile Fillies on the main track. A 2-year-old daughter of former New York-based freshman stallion Laoban, Simply Ravishing brings a record of 3-for-3 to the Breeders’ Cup along with a turf maiden win and an off-the-turf victory in the P. G. Johnson Stakes at Saratoga.

Bred by Meg Levy and foaled at Stonegate Stables in Fort Edward, Simply Ravishing figures to either be favorite or second choice in the Juvenile Fillies along with fellow unbeaten Princess Noor.

Seven other New York-breds have contested the Juvenile Fillies – Artemis Agrotera, Cadillac Women, Doremifasollatido, Miss Iron Smoke, Shesastonecoldfox, Weemissfrankie and Wonder Gal. Three finished third – Cadillac Women in 1991 at Churchill Downs, Weemissfrankie in 2011 at Churchill and Wonder Gal in 2014 at Santa Anita Park.

If her connections opt for the 1-mile Juvenile Fillies Turf, Simply Ravishing will join other New York-breds Dayatthespa, Freedom Rings, Pure Gossip and Royal Bonnie to start in the race. Pure Gossip owns the best finish in the Juvenile Fillies with a seventh in 2011 at Churchill.

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