Tiz the Law arrives for Kentucky Jockey Club

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Tiz the Law, who figures as a solid favorite for the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes here Saturday, was among the Monday arrivals at Churchill following an early-morning charter flight from New York.

A four-length winner of the Grade 1 Champagne at Belmont last month, Tiz the Law had his final pre-race breeze Saturday at Belmont Park, going five furlongs in a bullet 59.60 seconds. Barclay Tagg trains the Constitution colt for the Sackatoga Stable.

Entries will be drawn Wednesday for the KJC and Golden Rod, which anchor a 12-race Stars of Tomorrow card restricted to 2-year-olds. Both are Grade 2, $300,000 races at 1 1/16 miles, and both are qualifying-points races (10-4-2-1) toward the 2020 Kentucky Derby and Oaks, respectively.

An equine charter flight from California was scheduled for a Tuesday arrival.

◗ The Chad Brown duo of Nay Lady Nay and New and Improved also arrived Monday as major contenders in a capacity field of 14 in the Grade 2, $300,000 Mrs. Revere on Friday. Both fillies won stakes from well off the pace in their last start.

Other threats in the 1 1/16-mile turf race include The Mackem Bullet, winner of the Grade 2 Appalachian in April, along with Dalika, Winning Envelope, Winter Sunset, Delta’s Kingdom, and the lone supplementary entry in the lineup, Wildlife.

Conspicuous by her absence from the Mrs. Revere lineup is Princesa Carolina, most recently third in the Grade 1 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup. Trainer Kenny McPeek said the Tapit filly has been diagnosed with a minor ankle injury that could force her retirement.

◗ Jockey Julien Leparoux escaped injury Sunday when Tigers Rule broke down in the ninth race, an off-the-turf allowance route. Tigers Rule, a graded stakes-placed 4-year-old colt with $203,458 in earnings, all for trainer Vickie Foley, had to be euthanized. No other riders or horses were involved.

◗ Kentucky Downs has hired Butch Lehr as its track superintendent following the retirement of Ron Moore. Lehr, 71, has been semi-retired since leaving Churchill in 2012 after 30 years as superintendent.

◗ The first of four pools in the 2020 Kentucky Derby Future Wager runs Thursday to Sunday and coincides with the once-a-year Derby Sires Future Wager.