Photo: Oaklawn Park
When trainer Steve Hobby put Cresran LLC’s
Tiz Miz Sue back into serious training after a break, his immediate goal was a defense of
her win in the Azeri Stakes (G3) on March 16, but the Tiznow mare had
other ideas. After working six furlongs in 1:13 3/5 Thursday, the
6-year-old mare is telling her trainer, she’s likely going to be ready
for the $100,000 Bayakoa Stakes a month earlier on Feb. 16. The six
furlong work comes one week after a sharp five furlong move in 1:01, the
second fastest of 20 at the distance.
“I was planning on the Azeri, but all of her works have been spot
on,” said Hobby. “She’s a lot fitter than I thought she’d be at this
point. We’ll give her one more work before the race.”
Last year, Tiz Miz Sue finished second to the now retired Absinthe
Minded in the Bayakoa before her first graded stakes victory in the
Azeri. Following that race, she picked up three straight graded stakes
placings when third in Apple Blossom Handicap (G1), second in the Obeah
Stakes (G3) and second in the Delaware Handicap (G2) to champion Royal
Delta. She has not started since finishing fifth in the Spinster Stakes
(G1) at Keeneland last October.