Tiz the Law under consideration for Kentucky Jockey Club

ELMONT, N.Y. – Tiz the Law, the dominant winner of the Grade 1 Champagne Stakes last Saturday at Belmont Park, won’t be heading west for the Breeders’ Cup, but he could very well be hitting the road for his next start, according to trainer Barclay Tagg.

Tiz the Law will be strongly considered for the Grade 2, $300,000 Kentucky Jockey Club at Churchill Downs on Nov. 30. That race is run around two turns at 1 1/16 miles. It is a week earlier than the Grade 2, $250,000 Remsen Stakes going 1 1/8 miles at Aqueduct.

“The Kentucky race is a week earlier and it’s a mile and a sixteenth. It’s on the Churchill track,” said Tagg, referring to the fact that the Kentucky Derby is also run at Churchill Downs next May. “It’s halfway to Florida . . . I think that would probably be the thing to do.”

Tiz the Law is expected to spend the winter in Florida, based at the Palm Meadows training center in Boynton Beach.

Tiz the Law came off a two-month layoff and a shin injury to win the Grade 1 Champagne by four lengths over favored and previously undefeated Green Light Go. Tiz the Law raced between horses down the backside, tipped wide into the lane, and finished impressively under Manny Franco.

He covered a mile in 1:35.41 and earned an 89 Beyer Speed Figure.

“He came out of it great. He was out grazing for an hour this morning and he’s just as perky as he can be,” Tagg said Sunday morning. “He’s wonderful. Nothing seems to faze him.”

Tiz the Law is a New York-bred son of Constitution owned by Jack Knowlton’s Sackatoga Stable. Back in 2003, Sackatoga and Tagg campaigned the New York-bred Funny Cide, who won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness.

Meanwhile, Green Light Go, the Champagne runner-up, has not been ruled out of the Breeders’ Cup by his connections, who figure to make a decision after seeing how he trains over the next week.