Tiz the Law was all dressed up but had no place to go.
The winner of the Belmont and Travers, and the favorite to win the Kentucky Derby in 13 days, was scheduled to have his first work since the Midsummer Derby on Saturday, but the weather put the kibosh on that.
A sudden, heavy thunderstorm hit Saratoga just before 8 a.m. Saturday and that forced trainer Barclay Tagg to call an audible.
Tiz the Law did head to the track just before 9 a.m. after the storm passed through, but he didn't work. Rather, he galloped 1 3/4 miles with assistant trainer Robin Smullen on his back. Tiz the Law will instead work on Sunday, probably at 5:30 a.m. when the track opens, Tagg said.
"Why is it frustrating?" Tagg said when asked if he was. "As long as we can do it (Sunday) we'll be alright. I'm not going to go out and shoot myself. He had a nice gallop in the mud. You can't control nature."
Jack Knowlton, the operating manager of Sackatoga Stable, which owns Tiz the Law, was at the barn ready to watch the work along with a handful of partners in the horse. They watched the gallop and will return to the Spa early Sunday to watch their colt run.
"It is what it is," Knowlton said. "If we had three days of this, there would be a lot of frustration. Working (Sunday) is not a big deal."
Tagg had originally said he thought he might be able to get three works into Tiz the Law following his easy 5 1/2-length win in the Travers.
It will be two with the final work coming this weekend. He is then scheduled to leave for Louisville and the Kentucky Derby on Monday, Aug. 31.
"I always like to give him 10 to 12 days off after a race, especially a hard race," Tagg said. "Not that (the Travers) seemed that hard to him, but it was a hard race. If he would come back in seven days (to work), maybe he would not be ready. You can't tell all that stuff. I can't sit down and talk to him."
Travers runner-up gets his work in
Caracaro, who finished a distant second behind Tiz the Law in the Travers, did get his work in on Saturday.
He went five furlongs in a time of 1:01.02 under exercise rider J.J. Delgado on the main track.
"He kind of likes it," Gustavo Delgado Jr., assistant trainer to his father and no relation to the exercise rider, said of the off track. "He does well over it. We wanted something easy. In his first work after the Travers, we just wanted to see where we're at."
Caracaro is also targeting the Kentucky Derby and is scheduled to leave for Louisville in seven days. Delgado Jr. said Caracaro will have his final work this Saturday and he hopes to have Hall of Fame jockey Javier Castellano, who rode the colt in his past two starts (he was also second in the Peter Pan here on opening day) on board.
Delgado and his father have two horses on the grounds this summer. The other one, Bodexpress, also worked five furlongs in 1:01.88 and will likely run in an allowance race on the undercard on Derby day.
Sistercharlie looking for three-peat
A win in Sunday's Grade I, $500,000 Diana would give Mechanicville trainer Chad Brown some big bragging rights. He has won the 1 1/8-mile race, which will be run on the Mellon turf course, four straight times.
He isn't boasting about that. He would rather talk about what his super mare Sistercharlie could accomplish if she wins the Diana. A win would be the third straight in the race for the 6-year-old mare, who won the Eclipse Award for champion Turf Female in 2018. Six other horses have won the race in back-to-back seasons, the last being Forever Together, who did it in 2008-09.
"That would be an amazing accomplishment," Brown said.
Sistercharlie, who has won nine of 15 career starts on grass, made her first start of 2020 in the Grade II Ballston Spa here on July 25 and finished third behind Starship Jubilee and Call Me Love, who were separated by a neck in that race. Both those horses are in the Diana, which attracted a field of six. The biggest competition to Sistercharlie will come from the same barn she lives in.
The 5-year-old mare Rushing Fall, who was second in last year's Diana, is the 3-2 morning-line favorite after winning both her starts this year, including the Grade I Jenny Wiley at Keeneland on July 11. Sistercharlie, who will be ridden by John Velazquez, is 5-2 and the Graham Motion-trained Mean Mary, who has won five of six career starts on grass, is 3-1.
"They both seem to be training very well and are coming into the race the right way," Brown said of his two mares. "There are some nice horses in the race, so it looks like another great edition of the Diana."
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