Out On Bail Becomes Tiz the Law's First Stakes Winner

Out On Bail , a 2-year-old son of freshman sire Tiz the Law  , survived an objection following a rough final furlong in the Aug. 16 Skidmore Stakes to become his sire's first stakes winner.

The gray or roan colt owned by Case Chambers, Paradise Farms, and David Staudacher battled throughout the 5 1/2-furlong turf race with Jet Sweep Joe . At the top of the stretch, Jet Sweep Joe and rider Joseph Bealmear drifted out from the rail and pushed Out On Bail into the four path. In the final sixteenth, Out On Bail drifted back in and the two competitors traded bumps all the way to wire. Out On Bail, the 3-2 favorite with Jose Ortiz in the irons, dove forward to prevail by a head at the finish. The final time was 1:05.

Bealmear lodged an objection but Saratoga Race Course stewards left the order of finish unchanged. 

"I tried to keep my ground and I pushed him a little bit in, but almost the whole stretch he was laying on top of me the whole way," said Ortiz. "If I had run second, I was going to claim foul, too. I guess he took a shot, but I knew his horse was drifting on me the whole stretch, so I had a point in my favor there.

"If I came in a little bit at the end, so what? It wasn't a hard bump. He didn't give me a hard bump either. He drifted out, so I drift in—it was 50/50. Nothing happened, just two good horses out there battling each other," Ortiz continued.

Trainer Mike Maker said it "makes sense" for Out On Bail to be aimed for the six-furlong Futurity Stakes (G3T) at Aqueduct Racetrack Oct. 4, a Breeders' Cup Challenge Series event for the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint (G1T). 

Matthew Nestor bred Out On Bail in New York out of the Street Cry winner Judge Lee . The colt is the mare's first winner and first stakes winner. Judge Lee is out of the stakes-placed El Prado winner Miss Prado, making the mare a half sister to multiple Canadian stakes winner Euro Platinum  (Eurosilver). Judge Lee has a yearling full brother to Out On Bail and was bred this year to Americanrevolution  .

Ashford Stud's Tiz the Law becomes the eighth member of his stallion class to sire a black-type winner. The American classic-winning son of Constitution   ranks fourth on the leading freshman sires list by progeny earnings at $432,058 through Aug. 15. The Skidmore's first-place money elevates his progeny earnings to more than $514,500.

Also bred in New York, Tiz the Law became a grade 1 winner at 2 when he won the 2019 Champagne Stakes (G1) for Sackatoga Stable and trainer Barclay Tagg. The colt went on at 3 to win the 2020 Florida Derby (G1), Belmont Stakes (G1), and Travers Stakes (G1). The reshuffled Triple Crown series of COVID-ravaged 2020 put the Kentucky Derby (G1) in September, when Tiz the Law ran second for the roses behind Authentic  . He was retired with a 6-1-1 record from nine starts and $2,735,300 in earnings.

Tiz the Law stood at Ashford this year for $20,000.