Tizway Works Mile At Belmont In Preperation For Breeders’ Cup Vintage
ELMONT, N.Y. – Tizway, who overlooked the October 1 Jockey Membership Gold Cup with a fever, shipped from his Saratoga barn and labored a mile in 1:38.47 over the Belmont Park primary monitor on Wednesday morning as he continues arrangements for a get started within the November 5 Breeders’ Cup Vintage.
“It was once an amazing paintings with an ideal gallop out,” mentioned instructor Jim Bond. “He did it so simply and the most productive section is that he was once no longer even respiring onerous afterwards. I’m ecstatic.”
Tizway, winner of this 12 months’s Grade 1 Metropolitan Handicap at Belmont on Might 30 and the Grade 1 Whitney Invitational at Saratoga on August 6, does maximum of his coaching over Saratoga’s Oklahoma coaching monitor.
Then again, Bond sought after the pony, owned by means of William Clifton Jr., to have a mile exercise and most popular to do it at Belmont.
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“I made my up my thoughts about ten days in the past that I sought after to get a excellent mile exercise into him, and I sought after to do it on a monitor that was once quicker than the Oklahoma,” mentioned Bond. “He’s going right into a mile-and-a-quarter race, probably the most richest on this planet, and I wished to ensure I had him the place I sought after him bodily. I wish to give him the most productive probability to end up to everybody that he’s the most productive horse in The us. I could not be happier with him presently.”
Andres Catalano, the common rider for the 6-year-old son of two-time Breeders’ Cup Vintage winner Tiznow, was once on board for the paintings, whilst Bond and Rajiv Maragh seemed on. Maragh has ridden Tizway in his most up-to-date 14 begins.
“Andres is aware of Tizway like a e book, so I sought after him on board for this paintings,” mentioned Bond. “Andres in fact had a Bluetooth head set on, so I used to be ready to inform him precisely what I sought after all over the paintings.”
Bond mentioned that Tizway will stay at Belmont in a single day, and can send again to Saratoga Race Path on Thursday. He’s going to stay on an 8 day exercise agenda at Saratoga, together with his subsequent paintings most probably coming subsequent Thursday. He’s going to more than likely send to Churchill Downs on Monday, October 31, six days upfront of the Breeders’ Cup Vintage.
The Vintage can be his first get started in 3 months, maximum lately profitable the Whitney by means of 3 lengths over Flat Out, who went directly to take the Jockey Membership Gold Cup in convincing type.
Then again, Tizway received final October’s Grade 2 Kelso Handicap at Belmont by means of 5 lengths coming off a four-month layoff.
“He runs large off layoffs,” mentioned Bond. “He’s higher fitted to deliver his ‘A+’ race when he has quite a lot of spacing between races.”
