Tiz the Law has been good and lucky, two ingredients essential to success in horse racing.
Oh, and he’s been dominant, too.
The 3-year-old colt raced to a 3 3/4-length victory Saturday in the Belmont Stakes to open this year’s rescheduled Triple Crown series. His five wins in six career starts have been by an average margin of 19 1/4 lengths. His only loss came at Louisville’s Churchill Downs in the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes last year, when he finished third on a sloppy track.
In 11 weeks, he’ll get a chance to avenge that defeat on the same track in the Kentucky Derby. Tiz the Law has an ambitious summer and fall campaign ahead of him if all goes according to plan.
Next up is the Travers Stakes on Aug. 8 at Saratoga Race Course, where Tiz the Law would be competing on his home turf in upstate New York – it’s where he won for the first time last August – and as the first Empire State-bred Belmont Stakes winner since 1882, his following only figures to get bigger. However, it remains to be seen whether fans would be allowed to attend at any point in the Saratoga schedule, which opens July 16.