WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2020 ART COLLECTOR TO MISS DERBY HEAVY HITTERS DRAW Bruce Lunsford=s Art Collector (Bernardini) will not run in OUTSIDE; TIZ THE LAW IN Saturday=s GI Kentucky Derby because of a minor foot issue, trainer Tom Drury said Tuesday. Drury said the colt, who figured POST 17 FOR DERBY to be a clear second choice in Saturday=s Derby, nicked the bulb of his left front heel with a hind hoof while galloping Monday at Churchill Downs. Drury indicated the colt will now be pointed toward the Oct. 3 GI Preakness S. AHe grabbed himself yesterday morning training,@ Drury said. AIt was still very sensitive this morning. When I took my thumbs to palpate the bulbs of his heels, you could still tell it was pinching him. I had to make a choice. Your horse has to always come first. To run in a race of this caliber and trying to compete against the best 3-year-olds in this country, you=ve got to be 110%. To me, it wouldn=t have been fair to Art Collector, even though it=s slight, knowing that there=s an issue of any kind.@ Cont. p4 IN TDN EUROPE TODAY GOFFS UK STARTED YEARLING SALES SEASON Coady Photo A colt by Starspangledbanner (Aus) topped the first day of by Brian DiDonato selling at £170,000 at the Goffs UK Premier Yearling Sale at Doncaster on Tuesday.. Click or tap here to go straight to LOUISVILLE, KY--The likely top three wagering choices for the TDN Europe. GI Kentucky Derby will break next to each other on Saturday, with heavy favorite Tiz the Law (Constitution) drawn in 17. GI Runhappy Santa Anita Derby hero Honor A. P. (Honor Code) will be posted to his inside, and GI Haskell S. winner Authentic (Into Mischief) was assigned the far outside 18 hole during Tuesday morning=s post draw. The 146th ARun for the Roses@ lost a major contender earlier in the morning when streaking Art Collector (Bernardini) was ruled out due to a minor foot issue. Tiz the Law, whose perfect record in this jumbled-up season includes convincing scores in the GIII Holy Bull S., GI Curlin Florida Derby, GI Belmont S. and most recently in the Aug. 8 GI Runhappy Travers S., was given ultra low 3-5 odds on Mike Battaglia=s morning line. No Derby favorite has been 3-5 on the line since Easy Goer in 1989, and Tiz the Law=s quote is the lowest since Empire Maker was set at 6-5 in 2003. Both of those runners settled for second in their respective Derbies. AI like being on the outside, I didn=t particularly want to be out that far but he seems to handle everything that=s thrown at him so we=ll just have to leave it up to him,@ said the Sackatoga Stable-owned favorite=s trainer Barclay Tagg. Cont. p3 IT’S TIME FOR . Derby contender AUTHENTIC Breeder: Peter E. 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Director of IT & Accounting Ray Villa [email protected] [email protected] TODAY’S GRADED STAKES EST Race Click for TV 8:35a Coolmore Stud No Nay Never Fairy Bridge S.-G3, GOW -------------- TVG WORLDWIDE INFORMATION International Editor Kelsey Riley @kelseynrileyTDN [email protected] European Editor Emma Berry [email protected] Associate International Editor Heather Anderson @HLAndersonTDN Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing Sean Cronin & Tom Frary [email protected] 60 Broad Street, Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 732-747-8060 | 732-747-8955 (fax) TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 3 OF 16 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • SEPTEMBER 2, 2020 Derby Draw cont. from p1 Everything we=ve asked him to do he just does it. He=s a strong AIt gives you a chance, if you have any speed at all, it gives you horse, he=s not flighty but he=s on the muscle all the time. He=s a chance to get a better position,@ Tagg added. so exciting in his races. You think he=s gotten in trouble here, in While no horse has won the Derby from the 17 hole, horses trouble there and next thing you know he=s in front. He=s a have won from further out than pretty amazing horse. I don=t that, including last year=s victor know if I=ve seen a horse like via DQ Country House (Lookin At him.@ Lucky), who was drawn 20. Plus Tiz the Law arrived Tuesday gates one and 20 will be left open morning from Saratoga after a due to the less than full field. This routine flight--the New York- year=s Derby marks the debut of a based contingent=s journey had custom-made starting gate that been pushed back a day due to can accommodate up to 20 scheduling issues. horses and eliminate the need for AHe flew in from Albany and we an auxiliary gate. met him here,@ Tagg said. AHe AI just put those kind of things walked off the van, took a couple out of my mind,@ said Tagg, who turns, did his business and started took the 2003 Derby with eating hay.@ another Sackatoga-owned New Hall of Famer Bob Baffert=s Tiz the Law surveys his new surroundings in KY | Coady Photo York-bred in Funny Cide Derby line-up has changed a (Distorted Humor). AThere are a lot of horses who didn=t win the number of times during this strung-out Triple Crown season, and Derby so frankly I=m not that worried about it.@ he=ll ultimately have two chances to tie Ben Jones=s record of six The veteran conditioner continued, AHe=s a unique horse, I wins. keep pinching myself because he=s such a unique horse. Cont. p4 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 16 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • SEPTEMBER 2, 2020 In addition to the speedy Authentic--whose record would be perfect if not for a second to Honor A. P. in the Santa Anita Derby--he=ll be represented by $1-million KEESEP yearling Thousand Words (Pioneerof the Nile), who upended Honor A. P. in Del Mar=s Shared Belief S. last time Aug. 1. ANot ideal for Authentic but I=m OK with it,@ Baffert told the Churchill Downs media team via text. AHe=s out of harm=s way. Just glad to be in the gate.@ Starlight Racing=s Jack Wolf said of Authentic=s draw: AThe one time he was out there in California he broke dead right [in the Santa Anita Derby under Drayden Van Dyke] so hopefully [jockey Johnny Velazquez] will be a stronger rider this time around. I guess it=s better than one or two... I would think [he=ll have to send]. The one hole now is basically what the old three hole was and there will probably be a couple scratches between now and then so maybe we do move in a couple spots.@ Art Collector to Miss Derby I had a meeting yesterday afternoon with my veterinarians, Foster Northrup, Rick Costelle, had my blacksmith there. We discussed some different scenarios. We maybe could have put a bar shoe on it and stabilized it and he would have been fine. But you=re going to the Kentucky Derby. First and foremost, as the trainer, it=s my responsibility to be the voice for the horse. That=s just not fair to him [to run]. He=s been too good to us, and we=re going to make sure he=s taken care of first.@ Art Collector departed for Drury=s Skylight training base in Oldham County, Kentucky, yesterday morning. AI knew after we gave him a little anti-inflammatory this morning that he=d be perfectly sound,@ he said. AThat=s not surprising at all. And that=s what we wanted to see. We wanted to see him respond well to it, and it looks like that=s what happened. On to Baltimore.@ Art Collector was widely considered the biggest threat to GI Belmont and GI Runhappy Travers S. winner Tiz the Law (Constitution) heading into Saturday=s Run for the Roses. He is unbeaten in four starts this year since joining Drury=s barn, including two victories at Churchill Downs.