Summer Revolution, Nate's Tizzy seek career renewal in allowance

ELMONT, N.Y. – Once upon a time, Summer Revolution and Nate’s Tizzy looked like horses with promising futures. Now, after being sidelined for a long time by injuries, both look to jump-start their careers in the same second-level allowance race going six furlongs Thursday at Belmont Park.

Summer Revolution, a 4-year-old son of Summer Bird trained by Rudy Rodriguez, won the first two races of his career in summer 2016. He then stepped into graded stakes company with a fourth-place finish to Drefong – the eventual Eclipse Award-winning sprinter – in the Grade 1 King’s Bishop at Saratoga, and then failed to stretch out to 1 1/8 miles in the Grade 2 Pennsylvania Derby, where he finished ninth of 12.

Following two more defeats, Summer Revolution was stopped on due to issues with his suspensory ligaments.

Summer Revolution has 14 workouts back to June 30, which should have him fit to handle six furlongs off the 10-month layoff.

“The horse is training very, very good,” Rodriguez said. “We can’t wait for Thursday. It’s a tough race to come back in. He has to step up, but hopefully we can have him for the winter here.”

Nate’s Tizzy, owned by Olympic gold medal-winning skier Bode Miller, began his career in Bob Baffert’s barn, but made his only two starts in 2016 for Tres Abbott. He won both – the last being on June 1, 2016 at Delaware – but was sidelined by a tendon injury.

Nate’s Tizzy has been gelded since he last raced and is now in the barn of James Lawrence, who has breezed him three times, including a three-eighths move in 37.80 seconds Monday morning at Fair Hill.

Lawrence said Miller didn’t want to put Nate’s Tizzy in a claiming race and “jeopardize losing him and somebody else reaping the benefits of all this time off.”

“We put him where we can get a race in him, and hopefully he’ll perform well,” Lawrence said. “It’s definitely an aggressive spot.”

David Jacobson has the entry of Lewys Vaporizer and Very Very Stella in the field. Lewys Vaporizer, who has speed, won a similar race in the mud at Saratoga, and was claimed by Jacobson for $62,500. After a last-place finish behind Imperial Hint in the Don LeVine Memorial at Parx, Lewys Vaporizer is back in for the $62,500 claiming tag Thursday.

Very Very Stella, who comes from off the pace, won a $50,000 claiming race here Sept. 21 following a ninth-place finish in the Grade 1 Forego at Saratoga.

Texas Two Step (Robertino Diodoro), Zoot Suit (Jeremiah Englehart) and A Fleet Attitude (David Cannizzo) are all going first off the claim for their respective trainers.