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John Velazquez To Ride Tiz The Law In Pegasus World Cup

Hall of Fame jockey John Velazquez will replace Manny Franco aboard Belmont and Travers Stakes winner Tiz the Law in the colt's next planned start, the Jan. 23 Pegasus World Cup at Gulfstream Park. Sackatoga Stable announced the rider change via Twitter on Thursday afternoon.

Trainer Barclay Tagg was unhappy with Franco's ride in last weekend's Breeders' Cup Classic, in which Tiz the Law finished sixth.

“(Franco) said he was rank on him,” Tagg told the Breeders' Cup notes team on Sunday. “The winner was rank and he should have just followed him around. I had him ready to run, but I can't ride for them.”

Tiz the Law is currently at Palm Meadows Training Center in Florida, and will begin preparations for the Pegasus after several weeks' rest.

“I'm grateful for what has been accomplished thus far with Tiz,” said Sackatoga's manager Jack Knowlton. “How can you not be? But we have another year of racing ahead of us and want to do what's best for him and our partners. Tiz's story still has another chapter.”

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Tiz the Law to Return in Pegasus, Perhaps With a New Jockey

A rarity in the modern era for a top-class 3-year-old, Tiz the Law (Constitution) will race again next year and is being pointed for the GI Pegasus World Cup on Jan. 23 at Gulfstream Park. But who will be aboard him that day? It appears the answer is not Manny Franco.

After trainer Barclay Tagg criticized Franco’s ride in the GI Breeders’ Cup Classic, Jack Knowlton, the managing partner of Sackatoga Stable, echoed those sentiments Tuesday. When asked if there would be a jockey change, Knowlton said it is under consideration.

Franco has become a top jockey on the New York circuit and has ridden Tiz the Law in all but his first start. But he is short on experience when it comes to major races. Tagg was disappointed that Franco wasn’t immediately able to get Tiz the Law off the rail in the Classic and that he didn’t go after Authentic (Into Mischief) more aggressively in the early part of the race. After breaking sharply, Tiz the Law settled into fifth before finishing sixth. The first time in his career he has finished out of the money, Tiz the Law was beaten 5 1/2 lengths.

“I don’t think any of us were pleased with his ride,” Knowlton said. “I was in the paddock when Barclay talked to Manny and gave him his instructions, how he wanted to see him ride him and where he wanted him to put the horse in the race. Unfortunately, that did not happen.”

Will Franco lose the mount?

“I think that’s certainly on the table,” Knowlton said. “We’re not just looking at the Classic but looking at next year, looking at the potential of where we may run. There are places like Del Mar and Oaklawn and those are places where Manny’s never raced or certainly not ridden at to a high degree at all. That’s a factor as you look ahead. We know we’ve got one more year and we have a pretty good idea of where we are going to run. We had a great year with him, but you have to look forward and try to figure out what’s best for the horse going forward. The discussion of who is going to ride is one that Barclay, (assistant trainer) Robin (Smullen) and I have already begun.”

Knowlton said that Tiz the Law does not like to run inside of horses.

“We had a hell of a streak and then we got the two post in the Classic and lot of people said, ‘Uh oh, this is trouble’ because he wants to be outside of horses,” Knowlton said. “Unfortunately, it played out that way. Did it have to play out as badly as it did? I don’t think so. I don’t really think with the best of trips we were going to beat Authentic. He got a lot better.”

In June, Knowlton finalized an agreement with Coolmore America to stand Tiz the Law at stud. It stipulated that Sackatoga would make all racing decisions before he was retired and that it had the option of racing him as 4-year-old.

“When we had discussions with outfits that were interested in pursuing Tiz as a stallion I drew two lines in the sand,” Knowlton said. “One was no racing rights were for sale and, secondly, he had to be able to run through his 4-year-old year, as long as he was healthy and sound and running at a high level.”

Knowlton said that giving his partners another chance to cheer on Tiz the Law as a 4-year-old was among the reasons he is bringing the horse back.

“For 33 out of 35 partners this is the horse of a lifetime,” he said. “Lew Titterton and I had the experience of Funny Cide winning the Derby, the Preakness and almost winning the Triple Crown, doing things on a big stage and having a great horse. Thirty-three other people have never had this opportunity and, in all likelihood, never will again. I think it’s great for the sport to bring him back. It is unfortunate that so many of the good 3-year-olds don’t get a chance to run as 4-year-olds and then are forgotten. Because Funny Cide was a gelding we had the wonderful opportunity as Sackatoga owners to enjoy this horse basically for six years, from his 2-year-old to 7-year-old year. We are trying to do something that is good for the game and something I wanted to make happen.”

Knowlton said the Pegasus at Gulfstream will be next and that Tiz the Law will not have a prep for that race. He said other races on Tiz the Law’s tentative schedule are the 2021 Breeders’ Cup Classic, the GI Whitney S. and the Oaklawn H. He said there is an outside shot he will run in the G1 Dubai World Cup.

The $20-million Saudi Cup, he said, is not under consideration.

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Pegasus Start ‘Under Consideration’ For Classic Third Global Campaign

Sagamore Farm and WinStar Farm's Global Campaign will stand stud at WinStar next year, but the third place finisher in last weekend's Breeders' Cup Classic could first be pointed to the Pegasus World Cup on Jan. 23, reports drf.com.

The 4-year-old son of Curlin was bred by WinStar out of the A.P. Indy mare Globe Trot, making him the half-brother to Spendthrift sire Bolt d'Oro. Trained by Stanley Hough, Global Campaign won the G3 Peter Pan Stakes as a 3-year-old, and this year won the G3 Monmouth Cup and the G1 Woodward. His record stands at six wins from 10 starts for earnings of $1,321,080.

“The Pegasus is something that's definitely under consideration,” Hunter Rankin, president of Sagamore Farm, told drf.com. Global Campaign will spend the next week or so at WinStar for inspections, then return to Hough's stable.

Sagamore Farm announced a dispersal of all its equine stock last week.

Following the Breeders' Cup World Championships at Keeneland, another horse reported to be under consideration for the 2021 Pegasus World Cup at Gulfstream Park is Belmont Stakes winner and Classic disappointment Tiz the Law.

Read more at the Daily Racing Form.

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Breeders’ Cup Contenders Arrive at WinStar Farm

LEXINGTON,KY– Just over 12 hours after the trio’s contention for the GI Breeders’ Cup Classic, Improbable (City Zip), Global Campaign (Curlin) and Tom’s d’Etat (Smart Strike) made the short trip from Keeneland to WinStar Farm, where they will soon take up stud duty for the 2021 breeding season.

“We’re really excited with Improbable, Global Campaign and Tom’s d’Etat coming to the stallion barn,” said WinStar’s Elliott Walden. “They all look good-their color was good, they didn’t look too drawn up and they got off the van and acted like they’d been here their whole life.”

One member of the trio-Global Campaign-may not yet be done with his racetrack career, as Walden hinted he could be pointed for the January 23 $3 million GI Pegasus World Cup at Gulfstream Park.

“We’re considering running him back in the Pegasus,” he said. “We’re going to leave him here for 10 days and evaluate him. I felt like he ran well enough in the Classic to merit that and add a bit more to his resume. So we’re going to watch for 10 days and we might send him back to [trainer] Stanley [Hough] and run him in the Pegasus.”

Global Campaign is a homebred for WinStar Farm out of the A.P. Indy mare Globe Trot. He’s been campaigned by WinStar in partnership with Sagamore Farm over his two-year career, and scored graded stakes wins in the GIII Monmouth Cup S. and the GI Woodward H.

“He’s a horse that we raised out of a great mare that is also the dam of Grade I winner Bolt d’Oro (Medaglia d’Oro) and stakes winner Sonic Mule (Distorted Humor),” Walden said. “His race record has a high winning percentage, and to win the Woodward this year is really exciting as well.”

Global Campaign ran third in the Breeders’ Cup grand finale, while Improbable ran second behind his Bob Baffert stablemate Authentic (Into Mischief). Tom’s d’Etat could not overcome a troubled start and finished ninth.

“It didn’t quite turn out the way we wanted, but we’re very proud of Improbable and Global Campaign’s efforts,” Walden said. “I think Tom’s d’Etat may have been just a little bit over the top at age seven, but we’re excited about the next chapter for all of them.”

The seven-year-old Tom’s d’Etat has been a winner each year of his five-year career for trainer Al Stall, and this season the veteran won the Oaklawn Mile S. and the GII Stephen Foster S.

“Tom’s d’Etat is a very high-class horse by Smart Strike out of the family of Candy Ride (Arg). His numbers over the last three years, every time we looked at stallion prospects, his numbers would stand out. He is a phenomenal specimen, good length and great movement. I loved the way he moved on the racetrack, loved the way he is so level and could change gears and get there in a hurry. When we made the offer to buy him, [current WinStar stallions] Distorted Humor and Speightstown came to mind. Distorted Humor came to stud at age six and Speightstown was seven. So if he can turn out to be half of what they are, we’ll be in great shape.”

Improbable had a stand-out four-year-old season in 2020, collecting three consecutive Grade I races in the Hollywood Gold Cup S., Whitney S., and Awesome Again S.

“We’re really excited about Improbable,” Walden said. “The balance and size that he has is going to make him a really great fit for a lot of mares. He’s full of quality and he has great motion. All of those things that I think are important as we think about soundness and consistency, Improbable had all of that.”

Improbable’s stud fee is currently set at $40,000, although subject to change, while Tom’s d’Etat and Global Campaign’s stud fees have not yet been announced.

The trio will join Grade I-winning millionaire Promises Fulfilled (Shackleford) as WinStar’s freshman sires for the upcoming season.

“We’re really excited with all three of them,” Walden said. “To add them to Promises Fulfilled, who we retired earlier in the year, we couldn’t be more excited by our stallions we’re bringing to WinStar this year.”

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