Sole volante meaning5/10/2023 ![]() “With Tiz, he’s a different horse altogether. She was the only one in the barn that would be able to get on him to get him to do what was needed to be ready for races. “Robin used to have a terrible time just trying to handle him in the morning. “Funny Cide was kind of all speed, very high-strung, very, very difficult to manage,” Knowlton said. Tiz the Law, a bay colt with a prominent white blaze on his nose that covers most of his forehead, doesn’t look anything like his predecessor, a tough chestnut gelding with virtually no markings.Īnd their respective demeanors and running styles are different, too. The word “easier” rarely came up when Funny Cide was making his run in 2003. He’s run here before and won, and I think he likes the track. He can be there on the pace or sit off, so I can do whatever I want. “He makes my work a lot easier,” Franco told the New York Racing Association, after a recent workout on the Belmont main track. We’re pleased with the way he’s been doing and we’re ready for the race.” You work every day seven days a week, you just hope nothing happens and nothing goes wrong. “You don’t get top contenders all the time. “It means a lot,” Tagg said during the post-position draw on Wednesday. “So to have it happen again, I wake up and kind of pinch myself and say, ‘You know what? It looks like lightning really has struck twice.'” “I never, never dreamed … I figured once in a lifetime for an outfit like ours, that typically buys one horse, maybe two horses a year, always New York-bred, for never as much as $200,000,” Knowlton said. Tiz the Law and jockey Manny Franco have gradually learned each other, and it appears that, as the race distance stretches out, Tiz the Law should be equipped to handle that. His other Grade I is the Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park on March 28, to go along with the Grade III Holy Bull at Gulfstream in February. Tiz the Law has won at Belmont already, though, in the Grade I Champagne as a 2-year-old in October. No New York-bred has won the Belmont since Forester in 1882. The Grade I scoreboard reads: Tiz the Law 2, everybody else 0. He’s 6-5 on the morning line against nine rivals, none of whom has won at a level higher than Grade III. Win the Belmont, for starters, which most observers expect Tiz the Law to do. “It is disappointing, but whatta ya gonna do?” Sackatoga managing partner Jack Knowlton said. There will be at least one touch of deja vu: the Sackatoga people have seen Pennell’s chicken parm at least a few times. One of them is Bruce Cerone, who owns Pennell’s restaurant in Saratoga Springs, so dozens of Sackatoga partners and supporters will be there for a viewing party. No spectators will be allowed at Belmont Park, including the owners, who count 10 Capital Region partners among its ranks of 35 with a share in Tiz the Law. Riding him was like a wrestling match, but Tiz the Law brings a more easy-going, calm demeanor - and a star-in-the-making resume - to the Belmont, which has been scaled back from a mile and half to a mile and an eighth after the pandemic wreaked havoc on the racing schedule. 3.įunny Cide won the Derby and Preakness, then lost to Empire Maker in the Belmont in the five-week span that has been the norm for decades. 5 with the Kentucky Derby and finish with what is usually the second leg, the Preakness, on Oct. The COVID-19 pandemic has flipped the script on the Triple Crown, which will begin on Saturday with the 152nd Belmont Stakes (scheduled post 5:42 p.m.), continue on Sept. Tiz the Law carries the silks of the Saratoga Springs-based ownership group now, and he’s as different from Funny Cide as this Triple Crown season will be from the 2003 one, and every other one. Please consider a subscription at /Subscribe Our subscribers help us bring this information to you.
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