Tiz The Law Juveniles On Top at OBS April
A leading freshman sire last year who has kept the momentum going in 2025, it was no surprise buyers were eager to get their hands on horses from Tiz The Law’s second crop at the OBS Spring 2-Year-Olds In Training Sale – led by a sale topping $1.5 million colt.
Spendthrift Farm, St. Elias Stable, and West Point teamed up for the Louisiana-bred offered by S G V Thoroughbreds out of Georgian Dancer. It was the third time through the ring for the Schwing Thoroughbreds-bred, who had brought six figures when selling twice as a yearling.
“We have now bought three Tiz the Laws at the 2-year-old sales,” West Point's Terry Finley told Thoroughbred Daily News. “He has come forward like a whirlwind. We are very, very high on him. I remember the day he broke his maiden at Saratoga. Visually, I said he was going to be a superstar. He turned out to be a hell of a racehorse and I think he is going to have an impact on the breed for years to come.
“They are very athletic,” Finley continued. “They are very intelligent. All of the pinhookers and farm trainers that I am talking to just say they have great minds, and they carry themselves with some poise and some pizzazz. I wasn't as big a believer in him early, but he's got me hook line and sinker now.”
Breezing in :10.0 last week, he is the first foal out of his stakes placed Souper Speedy dam, who is one of six stakes performers out of Rivermaid Dancing. That mare also produced Canadian champion River Maid and stakes winner Reace For Gold among the others. River Maid is also the dam of Uncle Mo’s Grade I placed Cocktail Moments with an unraced daughter producing the stakes placed Top Rod.
Georgian Dancer visited another Coolmore sire last year, foaling a Gunite filly just a few weeks before this colt sold.
Tiz The Law sired the most expensive filly of the sale when Mahmud Mouni paid $1.05 million for a filly out of Tulsa Queen from Kings Equine.
“She was a very strong, correct horse and we liked her sire,” said Kings Equine’s Leonardo Sanchez. “Tiz The Law is very hot right now. And the mother's pedigree was very good. It looks like we might the right decision.”
A :9.4 breezer, the filly is the second foal out of stakes winner Tulsa Queen. That mare is already the dam of the winning Spartan Queen from her first foal. Tulsa Queen is a half-sister to the dam of stakes placed Screen Saver with each of her first three dams producing stakes performers.
Bred by Spotted Pony Stables, the filly is bred similarly to Group I winner Wandack. That runner is by Tiz The Law’s sire Constitution and out of a Hennessy granddaughter like this filly.
Tiz The Law was also the sire of the sixth most expensive horse of the sale when Donato Lanni signed a $1,150,000 ticket on behalf of Zedan Racing.
“He had a great work and came back really good,” said Lanni. “[He] vetted really good. We're really happy with him. He was a horse who [Zedan] really wanted to bring home with him.”
That Tom McCrocklin-consigned colt was a :20.3 breezer last week and saw two siblings register updates in recent months, including one winning at Keeneland on April 9. Two of his half-sisters also saw their runners register placings in the last month. The colt bred by Merriebelle Stable is out of Taboo, who has produced seven winners from nine to race. That group includes the stakes winning Let My People Go, who was among the recent updates, in addition to the Grade III-placed Der Lu and stakes placed Smartly Agree. Smartly Agree is also a stakes producer.
Taboo was one of nine winners out of the Grade I-winning Dream Of Summer, who did even better as a broodmare. Dream of Summer produced Grade I winners Creative Cause and Vexatious in addition to Grade II winner and Grade I Belmont Stakes runner-up Destin in addition to the Grade III-placed Summer Promise.
Tiz The Law also saw his juveniles sell for $825,000, $380,000, $350,000, etc. for an average of $416,800 for 15 sold.