Yes It Tiz could be favored in Friday turf allowance

Trainer Brad Cox has two leading 3-year-old turf fillies, Fionn and Destino d’Oro, aimed toward the Dueling Grounds Oaks next month at Kentucky Downs. He has a third horse in the same division, Yes It Tiz, headed toward favoritism in the co-featured eighth race Friday at Ellis Park.

Yes It Tiz and seven others were entered in a first-level turf mile allowance with age and sex restrictions. A debut winner of a two-turn turf maiden in April at Gulfstream, Yes It Tiz in her second start closed moderately from midpack to finish a well-beaten second at this class level on July 6. She and eight others gave futile chase to pacesetting winner Drop the Hammer, who returned with a decent fifth in the Grade 3 Pucker Up, won by Destino d’Oro.

Cox also has a live 3-year-old colt for race 4, which, minus the sex restriction, has the same conditions as race 8. Comes a Time in his fourth start makes his turf debut. As a son of Not This Time and the Street Cry mare Bachelor’s Walk, he could appreciate the surface switch.

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