Trainer Ken McPeek plans to send his Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf runner-up Tiz the Bomb to Britain for the Epsom Derby on June 4, 2022, reports the Thoroughbred Racing Commentary. As a prep race, Tiz the Bomb could also start in the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket on April 30.
“Tiz The Bomb won at Kentucky Downs, which is equivalent to a European turf course with the uphill and downhill,” McPeek told TRC. “He should be able to handle the contour of Epsom. “My fingers are crossed that he will be 100 per cent and ready to go at that period of time. We are long way away, but we are excited.”
The son of Hit It A Bomb made his sophomore debut on the dirt in the Grade 3 Holy Bull at Gulfstream Park on Feb. 5, finishing seventh while beaten 20 1/4 lengths. The Equibase chart indicates that Tiz the Bomb “raced two wide and out of contention early, and had no apparent mishaps.”
Last season, Tiz the Bomb broke his maiden in an off-the-turf contest on the dirt course at Ellis Park before traveling downstate to win the listed Kentucky Downs Juvenile Mile Stakes on the European-style grass course. A winner next out on the Keeneland turf in the G2 Bourbon, Tiz the Bomb was beaten 1 1/2 lengths by Modern Games in the Breeders' Cup.
Since his start in the Holy Bull, Tiz the Bomb has returned to the work tab once: the colt recorded a half-mile breeze in 47.16 seconds over the Gulfstream dirt course on Feb. 20.
Tiz the Bomb raced last year for Phoenix Thoroughbreds. The group's founder, Amer Abdulaziz Salman, was accused of money laundering in a cryptocurrency scam. Abdulaziz has denied the allegations, but Phoenix has not raced in Britain since October of 2020 when the British Horseracing Authority issued a suspension on financial grounds.
Phoenix was listed as the colt's owner in his most recent start, the G3 Holy Bull, but Tiz the Bomb is listed in the Triple Crown nominations as being owned by McPeek's Magdalena Racing.
McPeek told TRC that Magdalena will be leasing Tiz the Bomb from Phoenix for both of his starts in Britain.
Read more at the Thoroughbred Racing Commentary.
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