Tiz The Law
Although taking high rank among the year’s first-crop sires is no guarantee of long-term success, there is every reason to think that Tiz The Law is going to build on the bright start he has made in 2024. By late October, he topped the table, helped by an unrivalled total of five BTWs, even though his team of 84 named foals was the smallest of any stallion in the top ten. There is also the record of his sire line to take into account. His grandsire, Tapit, was the champion freshman sire of 2008, before going on to top the General Sires list on three occasions. And Tiz The Law’s sire Constitution, who ranked second among the first-crop sires of 2019, went on to be his generation’s dominant second-, third- and fourth-crop sire by North American earnings.
A superior racehorse to Constitution, Tiz The Law has already followed in his sire’s footsteps by winning the Gr.1 Florida Derby, but Tiz The Law won much more easily. Whereas Constitution was unraced at two, Tiz The Law had displayed considerable talent at that age landing the Gr.1 Champagne Stakes before running out a decisive winner of his first four starts as a three-year-old. After warming up for his Florida Derby success with a win in the Gr.3 Holy Bull Stakes, Tiz The Law won again as a hot favorite for the Gr.1 Belmont Stakes over the shortened distance of a mile and an eighth. Stepped up to a mile and a quarter in the Gr.1 Travers Stakes, Tiz The Law scored by more than five lengths. He next started odds on to defeat Authentic in the re-scheduled Kentucky Derby but went down by just over a length.
Tiz The Law has the pedigree to sire top performers on all surfaces. His dam Tizfiz won the Gr.2 San Gorgonio H. on turf and his third dam Crafty And Evil was half-sister to Favorite Trick, who won all of his eight starts in 1997 to become champion two-year-old and Horse Of The Year. Tiz The Law is clearly passing on a good measure of his juvenile ability. His first-crop 2YOs include several leading turf performers, including Scythian (Gr.3 Miss Grillo S), Out On Bail (Skidmore S. at Saratoga) and Tiztastic (Kentucky Downs Juvenile Mile S.), as well as promising main track winners at Churchill Downs, Saratoga, Del Mar, Los Alamitos and Santa Anita, most notably Gr.2 Oak Leaf S. winner Non Compliant and impressive Anoakia Stakes winner Silent Law.
The broodmare sires of Tiz The Law’s early winners include STREET CRY, who sired the dam of Out On Bail, and his son STREET SENSE, who sired the dam of his unbeaten daughter Non Compliant, winner of the Gr.2 Oak Leaf Stakes. This is significant, as STREET SENSE also sired the dam of Constitution’s high-class son Mindframe.
The FAPPIANO branch of the MR PROSPECTOR male line is working well with Constitution. His smart daughters Amalfi Sunrise and Glass Ceiling have dams by EMPIRE MAKER, while his 19 foals out of daughters of UNBRIDLED’S SONG include four black-type winners and the Gr.1-placed Gouverneur Morris. Tiz The Law is following his sire’s example and his second Graded winner, Scythian, has a dam by EMPIRE MAKER. Constitution’s 8 foals out of mares by PIONEEROF THE NILE include two black-type winners, notably Gr.2 winner Catching Freedom. Mares by sons of UNBRIDLED create only 5x3 to this Kentucky Derby winner with Tiz The Law. His Stakes-winning Tiztastic is inbred 3x2 to TAPIT, whose dam was by UNBRIDLED, and there are already winners out of mares by EMPIRE MAKER and UNBRIDLED’S SONG.
Constitution has two Graded winners, including Venezuelan Hug, from 18 foals out of daughters of GIANT’S CAUSEWAY and his Gr.3 winner Warrant has a dam by Giant Causeway’s son FIRST SAMURAI. The HARLAN and HENNESSY branches of the STORM CAT line should also be ideal for Tiz The Law, whose first two foals out of INTO MISCHIEF mares are already winners. Daughters of SCAT DADDY should also suit Tiz The Law.
Mares with SEEKING THE GOLD or GONE WEST blood have also made their mark with Constitution, with the Gr.2 winners Laura’s Light and Treason respectively having dams by GONE WEST’s sons MUQTARIB and SPEIGHTSTOWN while Tiz The Law’s Stakes winner Silent Law has a 2nd dam by GRAND SLAM. SMART STRIKE and his son CURLIN also appear among the broodmare sires of Constitution’s Graded performers, as do CARSON CITY and his son CITY ZIP.
ELUSIVE QUALITY sired the 2nd dam of Non Compliant.
Constitution’s 13 foals out of mares by DIXIE UNION include the Gr.3 winner By Your Side and the Gr.3-placed Aurelia Garland. Tiz The Law’s first runner out of a DIXIE UNION mare is the facile Anoakia Stakes winner Silent Law.
Mares by sons of EL PRADO have also succeeded with Constitution, who sired the Gr.1-placed Golden Principal, Gr.3 winner Ridin With Biden, Listed winner Conman and Gr.3-placed Crevalle d’Oro from only 12 foals from MEDAGLIA D’ORO mares.
He also sired the Chilean Gr.1 winner First Constitution from a KITTEN’S JOY mare.