MONDAY, JUNE 22, 2020 BLOODHORSE.COM/DAILY NANCY ROKOS ONWARD Tagg Targets Travers CONTRIBUTE. for Belmont Winner Tiz the Law NTRA 1/4% Check-off Program See page 4 IN THIS ISSUE Give $2.50 for every $1,000 7 Oppenheim: Leading Sires at Royal Ascot of a horse’s sale price to support federal legislative advocacy. 14 Trainers Ponder Options for Dr Post, Max Player 16 No Parole Achieves First Grade 1 Win Help us help horse racing in D.C. for Coteau Grove BLOODHORSE DAILY Download the FREE smartphone app PAGE 1 OF 31 CONTENTS 4 Tagg Targets Travers for Belmont Winner Tiz the Law 6 Leading Sires of Dirt 3-Year-Olds 7 Oppenheim: Leading Sires at Royal Ascot 14 Trainers Ponder Options for Dr Post, Max Player 16 No Parole Achieves First Grade 1 Win for Coteau Grove 18 Jean Elizabeth Rockets to Victory in Whimsical Stakes 19 Red King Reigns Supreme in San Juan Capistrano 20 Blitzkrieg Returns to Winning Form in American Stakes 21 Weston First Winner For Spendthrift’s Hit It a Bomb 22 Cafe Pharoah Locks Down Japan Bid to Kentucky Derby 23 Taghrooda Off the Mark as Son Almighwar Wins at Kempton 24 Scottish Racing Returns After Three-Month Hiatus 25 Results & Entries ANNE M. 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Eberhardt Claire Crosby Assistant Editors Digital Designer Meredith Daugherty Erin Morgan Mary LaRue (Reeder) Senior Web Producer Bloodstock Editor Christine Wittmer Eric Mitchell Digital Content Coordinator Sales Editor Michelle Benson Ron Mitchell Copy Editor Mark Sonka Features Editor Regional Sales Managers Frank Angst Shirley Dievert Associate Editors Kristi Heasley Byron King Ellen Lambertus Christine Oser Amanda Ramey Senior Correspondent Classified Sales Bob Ehalt Catherine Johnston Senior Columnist Director of Technology Jay Hovdey Courtney Bearse Senior Bloodstock Columnist Pedigree Analyst Bill Oppenheim Alan Porter SKIP DICKSTEIN Contact Us: June 20 Woody Stephen Stakes winner No Parole becomes Editor: [email protected] • Advertising: [email protected] the first grade 1 winner produced by Coteau Grove Farms (see page 16 for more) BLOODHORSE DAILY MONDAY, JUNE 22, 2020 PAGE 3 OF 31 TAGG TARGETS TRAVERS FOR BELMONT WINNER TIZ THE LAW By BloodHorse Staff oments after Sackatoga MStable's Tiz the Law captured the 152nd running of the Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets (G1) June 20, trainer Barclay Tagg could be heard asking those in charge of the trophy presentation to hurry things up—he had to get back to his horses. The veteran conditioner, who accompanies each set of morning workers to the track on his pony, NANCY ROKOS takes a hands-on approach to Tiz the Law, with barn foreman Juan Barajas Saldana, smells the blanket of carnations horsemanship. the morning after his Belmont Stakes score at Belmont Park Tagg said Tiz the Law has been anything," Tagg said. "She's a York-breds, Tiz the Law and Funny easier to handle than many horses. brilliant horsewoman, and I can't Cide have many differences. "He's so easy to deal with. If you say enough about her. She has Tiz the Law posted a number ask him to go fast, he goes fast. If the heart of a lion, the judgment of strong works leading into the you ask him to go slow, he goes of Solomon, and the patience of Belmont, including a five-eighths slow," Tagg said. Job." effort in 1:00.53 June 8 and an Assistant trainer Robin Smullen Tagg and Sackatoga Stable easy half-mile in :50.42 June 14 also serves as the main exercise teamed in 2003 to campaign on Big Sandy. The controlled final rider for Tiz the Law, and Tagg Funny Cide, who won that breeze for Tiz the Law was in sharp credits her with much of the year's Kentucky Derby (G1) and contrast to the bullet :57.82 Funny Constitution colt's success. Preakness Stakes (G1) before Cide clocked heading into the 2003 "I'll say it: He's been handled running third in the Belmont. Belmont. perfectly, too. I've had Robin Though the connections are the ride him, and Robin can ride same, and both horses are New (continued on page 5) SKIP DICKSTEIN Tiz the Law wins the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park BLOODHORSE DAILY MONDAY, JUNE 22, 2020 PAGE 4 OF 31 TAGG TARGETS TRAVERS FOR Nov. 7 Longines Breeders' Cup Classic (G1). BELMONT WINNER TIZ THE LAW Tagg said he'll continue to listen to what his colt has to say. (continued from page 4) "You have to pay attention to your horse. He tells you whether it's too much or too little," Tagg said. "He Smullen credits Tagg for understanding what each tells you all that stuff if you pay attention to it. You of the horses in his care needs and for putting them in have to show up every day. You have to see if he eats a position to be successful. every day and if he eats every night." "Barclay is so good at getting them to the right spot at Tagg said he prefers to feed his horses later in the the right time," Smullen said. "We tightened the screws evening, and he's there each night to make sure each (on Tiz the Law), but in the last work, we go in :50. And food tub is emptied. everybody asks, did you want to go that slow? Yeah, we "I like to come back at night, and if I can see his did. That was on purpose. He's just so good at it. nose in the tub eating, I'm happy," Tagg said. "If one of "Our work two weeks out is usually our serious work, them has walked away and is eating hay in the corner and the last work before the race is the easiest work—if when his feed is sitting there, that's a signal there's you have the horse that can do it. With Funny Cide, you something wrong. Maybe it's nothing too bad, maybe couldn't. His last work before the Belmont, he went in the groom gave the horse two cups instead of one cup, :57, but this horse is easy to ride 90% of the time." but you need to find all this stuff out. Tagg mapped out all the details as Tiz the Law "A lot of guys have horses all over the place, but we prepared for his first start in nearly three months don't. So we have to make everything work." following his score in the March 28 Curlin Florida The morning training, the perfect trip engineered by Derby (G1) at Gulfstream Park. Smullen said he even Franco, and even the celebration went according to plan. planned out the celebration for jockey Manny Franco, And plans for Tiz the Law's next race in the Travers who offered the slightest of fist pumps along with a are already underway. cathartic yell as the New York-bred hero crossed the "He came out of the race great," Smullen said. "He wire to give Tagg a personal Triple Crown. ate up, and then he came out and grazed for an hour. "Barclay told him not to be jumping around on His legs are good, his attitude and energy are good." the horse. Sometimes they shift their weight (in the For the next few days, Tagg said Tiz the Law will saddle), and it's bad," Smullen said. "So Barclay walk the shedrow. said to Manny, 'If you're winning, don't do that. Just "He'll walk for three days, and we'll graze him don't.' That's the stuff that nobody thinks about, but every afternoon like we do," Tagg said. "The fourth he does. It might be the difference between making day we'll take him out and jog him once around the next race or not backwards to see how he making it." moves and how he is, and Tiz the Law's if he eats up that night, sophomore season kicked we'll go to galloping. And off with a win in the Feb. 10 days after that, we'll 1 Holy Bull Stakes (3), give him an easy breeze, a and Tagg will be charged half-mile." with keeping the colt in The wheels are already good order through a in motion as Tagg looks to campaign he would like add another trophy to his to see include stops in the cabinet. Aug. 8 Runhappy Travers "I've never won the Stakes (G1), the Sept. 5 Travers, and I want to win Kentucky Derby Presented it," Tagg said. "It's very by Woodford Reserve, the important to me." 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