Comparative, Tizzy in the Sky look like speed of Top Flight

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Comparative and Tizzy in the Sky have done some of their best work at Aqueduct, which is most likely why their connections have sent them back to New York for Sunday’s $150,000 Top Flight Stakes for fillies and mares.

Originally scheduled for Saturday, the Top Flight, at 1 1/8 miles, only had four entered and the race was not used. Brought back for Sunday, Towhead became the fifth horse in the field.

Comparative, a 4-year-old daughter of Street Sense owned by Godolphin and trained by Brad Cox, won a second-level allowance going a mile here in November followed by a narrow neck victory over Saddle Up Jessie in the Ladies Stakes in January.

Comparative ran her winning streak to three with a front-running victory in the Grade 3 Bayakoa Stakes on Feb. 2 at Oaklawn Park before she finished seventh in the Grade 2 Azeri, also at Oaklawn, on March 9. In the Azeri, Comparative raced in the second flight and was in between horses until the middle of the turn when she couldn’t keep up.

“She didn’t get involved like we thought, raced in between horses and didn’t look comfortable at any point in the race,” Cox said. “For whatever reason, it wasn’t her day, so we just regrouped. She’s trained very well, which is what gave us the confidence to put her on the plane.”

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Comparative, the 124-pound highweight, will likely try to control things from the rail under Manny Franco.

Tizzy in the Sky, a 5-year-old daughter of Sky Kingdom, also could be a forward factor breaking from post 3 under Kendrick Carmouche for Todd Pletcher.

Tizzy in the Sky returns to Aqueduct after she finished fourth with a wide trip in the Grade 3 Royal Delta at Gulfstream Park. Tizzy in the Sky has three wins and two seconds from six starts at Aqueduct. She won two allowance races, each by 9 3/4 lengths at the Top Flight distance of 1 1/8 miles. In her other try at the distance, she was beaten a neck by Interstatedaydream in the Turnback the Alarm.

Spiked gets back out to 1 1/8 miles, a distance at which she won a first-level allowance race last April after getting disqualified out of a win in January. In her lone stakes try, Spiked finished third in the Heavenly Prize Stakes going a one-turn mile on Feb. 10. She then finished last of six in a one-mile allowance last out.

Towhead, trained by Mike Maker, has been beaten double-digit lengths in each of her last four starts.

Movie Moxy has made 31 starts in her career, with just one coming at two turns on dirt. In that race, she finished third, beaten 13 1/4 lengths in an allowance race at Keeneland in April 2021. Movie Moxy, trained by Linda Rice, is coming off a second-place finish in a starter allowance on March 30.

The Top Flight goes as race 3 on a nine-race card that begins at 1:20 p.m. and includes a pair of $200,000 stakes for 3-year-old progeny of New York sires, one for males, one for females.

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