Tiz the Legislation will sooner or later have to go away his dwelling point out of New York to chase the rest of the Triple Crown, but 1st he’s set for an encore upstate.

The Belmont Stakes winner will be pointed towards the Travers Stakes on Aug. 8 at Saratoga, coach Barclay Tagg explained following Saturday’s victory and confirmed on Sunday, providing a warmup for the Sept. 5 Kentucky Derby and Oct. 3 Preakness.

“The extensive-assortment program would be to go to the Travers, then the Derby and then the Preakness,” Tagg reported Saturday night. “If there’s nearly anything remaining of him, they’ll in all probability want me to get him to the Breeders Cup [Nov. 6-7].”

The 82-12 months-aged Tagg secured a occupation Triple Crown on Saturday, as he and Sackatoga Stables checked off the Belmont Stakes earn that received away from them with Funny Cide in 2003.

The Triple Crown routine has been turned on its head this 12 months because of the coronavirus pandemic, but Tiz the Legislation will give it a shot. Instead of the three races staying operate in a 5-7 days stretch, they have been spread out throughout 16 weeks, which began with the Belmont on Saturday.

That means another long layoff is in retail outlet for Tiz the Regulation — it will be seven weeks in between the Belmont Stakes (1 ¹/₈ mile) and the Travers (1 ¼ mile) — but it is very little new for the thoroughbred ridden by Manny Franco. Saturday’s race was his 1st considering that March 28, with 12 weeks in in between as racing was suspended in New York, but he showed no signals of rust many thanks to the robust training program of Tagg and assistant trainer Robin Smullen.

“I tried using not to get wrapped up in that and consider and make diverse decisions,” Tagg mentioned. “We experienced a single way of bringing the horse together and it was unquestionably functioning. It labored from the really starting. I couldn’t see any sense in changing it. I could have turned him out for two weeks and brought him back again in and commenced it in excess of all over again and that variety of stuff. I thought, ‘Why do it? We really do not know when they’re going to open up up.’ … So you had to just maintain on the system.”

Aaked if he was ever nervous about Tiz the Regulation receiving aggressive in the course of his training in the week primary up to the Belmont Stakes, the veteran Tagg said it was almost nothing new.

“I never ever worried about any of that,” Tagg stated. “He’s often a very good feeler. He receives intense like that. He’s an aggressive colt. He’s not like a teddy bear. He’ll chunk you or kick you or whatsoever he would like to do. You just have to be a very little watchful. That’s why we keep two adult men on the shanks with him. You really don’t have to be intense with him or something, you just have to retain him in line. We’re happy to see the electricity.”

Immediately after it served him very well Saturday, Tiz the Regulation was back again in the barn Sunday in excellent wellbeing.

“He came out of the race good,” Smullen reported Sunday at Belmont Park. “He ate up and then he came out and grazed for an hour. His legs are good, his frame of mind and vitality are great.”

Tiz the Regulation will walk the subsequent 3 times and graze in the afternoons right before starting off to jog, then gallop, then breeze a 50 percent mile 10 days later if he continues to react well. Tagg has the profitable formula and it does not seem like he programs on altering it any time before long as he commences to glance towards the subsequent race on the unusual plan.

“I’ve by no means received the Travers and I want to get it,” Tagg explained Sunday. “It’s quite essential to me.”