Green Light Go moving ahead to Hopeful

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Green Light Go, authoritative winner of his first two starts, including the Grade 2 Saratoga Special here on Aug. 10, will come back in three weeks and run in the Grade 1, $350,000 Hopeful Stakes here on Sept. 2, trainer Jimmy Jerkens said.

Initially, Jerkens was going to wait for the Grade 1 Champagne, a one-turn mile at Belmont on Oct. 5, but felt that might have been too much time between races.

“Couldn’t really think of a good reason not to run,” Jerkens said Friday. “To go a mile you got to train the [heck] out of them.”

On Tuesday, Green Light Go worked a half-mile in 50.48 seconds.

Green Light Go could meet as many as three horses from the Steve Asmussen barn as Basin, Gozilla, and Shoplifted are all expected to run in the seven-furlong Hopeful.

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Tiz the Law won’t make Hopeful

Tiz the Law, a New York-bred son of Constitution who won his debut by 4 1/4 lengths on Aug. 8, won’t make the Hopeful and will be sidelined briefly due to a minor shin issue, trainer Barclay Tagg said Friday.

Tagg said that he had the shin blistered and that Tiz the Law could resume training in about two weeks.

Tiz the Law earned a 90 Beyer Speed Figure for his debut victory.

◗ First post at Belmont Park on weekdays for the fall meet will be 3 p.m. as the New York Racing Association tries to accommodate the construction of a new hockey arena to be built on the grounds of the facility.

On weekdays, Belmont will run seven or eight races, while on the weekends first post will be 1 p.m. and there will be 11 or 12 races.

Racing at Belmont will be conducted from Sept. 6 through Oct. 6 before the remaining 14 days of the fall meet will be conducted at Aqueduct.