Green Light Go to be freshened in Ocala; Tiz the Law works for Kentucky Jockey Club

ELMONT, N.Y. – Green Light’s a no-go for the Breeders’ Cup.

Green Light Go, winner of the Grade 2 Saratoga Special and runner-up to Tiz the Law in the Grade 1 Champagne Stakes, will not run in the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Santa Anita on Nov. 1, trainer Jimmy Jerkens said Friday.

Instead, Green Light Go was to be shipped to Adena Springs in Ocala, Fla., on Saturday for a six-week freshening. He will rejoin Jerkens at Palm Meadows, a training center in Florida, around the first of the year.

“It just looked like he lost weight after the last race,” Jerkens said. “Even though I didn’t like the way he was ridden on a track [that favored closers], he probably wasn’t as good as the other horse. To ship all the way over there off of a race like that, plus he didn’t really bounce back like we wanted him to. He’s really good and sound, thank God for that.”

Green Light Go joins Tiz the Law as New York-based 2-year-olds who will skip the Juvenile.

However, Tiz the Law is pointing to the Grade 2, $300,000 Kentucky Jockey Club at Churchill on Nov. 30. On Friday morning, Tiz the Law worked four furlongs in 47.87 seconds over Belmont’s main track.

Tiz the Law, under jockey Manny Franco, began the work about three lengths behind a pair of stablemates – Im the Captain Now and L’Indiscret. Franco let Tiz the Law take plenty of dirt before tipping him outside inside the eighth pole. Tiz the Law went by his stablemates, finishing two to three lengths in front. He galloped out five furlongs in 1:01.05.

“We tucked him in behind some horses to slow him down a little bit and let him get dirt in his face,” trainer Barclay Tagg said. “Manny just said he does it so easy you can’t tell how fast he’s going.”

Tagg said Tiz the Law would do all his major work at Belmont before shipping to Churchill Downs the week of the Kentucky Jockey Club.