Aqueduct: Tizzy in the Sky returns to action in Go for Wand

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Gary Johnson / Eclipse Sportswire

Tizzy in the Sky has four career wins, all at the Big A, and returns to the historic site for Saturday’s Grade 3, $200,000 Go for Wand, a one-mile test for fillies and mares 3-years-old and up, at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Trained by Hall of Famer Todd Pletcher for KimDon Racing, the 5-year-old Sky Kingdom dark bay hasn’t raced since an off-the-board finish in the Ogden Phipps (G1) on June 8 at Saratoga Race Course. There, she broke through the gate and stalked the pace before weakening in the six-horse field that featured Randomized, Idiomatic, Pretty Mischievous, Raging Sea and Soul of an Angel. All five now have at least one Grade 1 victory.

“She is doing great,” said Pletcher’s New York-assistant Stu Hampson. “She is a generously training filly, probably one where we’d love to have another work or two, but her past couple works have been very good. She is a generous horse galloping out all the time, but her gallop-outs lately have been especially good.”

Tizzy in the Sky starts from the rail with jockey Flavien Prat. She was previously a pacesetting nine-length winner of the nine-furlong Listed Top Flight Invitational in April here. It was her first stakes score in her fifth attempt, including a second in last year’s Go for Wand over muddy and sealed footing. She boasts a 7: 4-2-0 record over the local main track, with two additional nine-plus lengths romps in the allowance ranks along with a 5 3/4-length maiden score.

“She seems to run well enough fresh and she likes the track. She seems to be in very good form,” said Hampson. “Nothing gets them as fit as racing itself does, but we’ve tried to get her as tight as we could in the mornings. She loves to go out there and gallop. Hopefully, she is ready to get it done.”

Alpha Delta Stables’ Occult, who starts from post 3 with Irad Ortiz, Jr., enters from a 6 1/2-length runner-up finish in the nine-furlong Spinster (G1) on Oct. 6 at Keeneland. Trained by four-time Eclipse Award winner Chad Brown, the 4-year-old Into Mischief dark bay only boosted her reputation, becoming multiple Grade 1-placed in the defeat to reigning champion older dirt female Idiomatic.

“She’s coming from Keeneland and is cutting back to one turn, which will be interesting. I think she should be able to handle it, and that was quite a valiant effort chasing Idiomatic through the stretch,” said Brown. “I was very proud of her race and quite honestly, I think that was her best career race. She’s very consistent.”

Occult was third at the Grade 1 level in last year’s Cotillion at Parx Racing and the Acorn at Belmont Park. She pursues her first trip to the winner’s circle since a 10 1/4-length score in the Monmouth Oaks (G3) last July at its namesake oval.

A $625,000 purchase at the Keeneland September yearling sale, Occult, out of the graded stakes-winning Empire Maker mare Magical Feeling, is a half-sister to dual stakes-winner Exulting and Grade 1-placed Imagination.

Brown will also saddle Peter Brant’s Shidabhuti, who starts fromo post 8 with jockey Dylan Davis. She comes off a closing two-length victory in a seven-furlong October optional-claimer at Keeneland. The 4-year-old Practical Joke bay made her prior four efforts in graded company, including a rallying win in the seven-furlong Distaff (G3) on April 6 here.

“She’s coming off a very sharp, smart race over at Keeneland and is training well. She’s a very honest horse and tries every time,” Brown said. “She needs a certain type of setup to see her best, but she does try hard every time and has won some nice races. Hopefully, getting out to a mile should be a good distance for her.”

Shidabhuti was subsequently a well-beaten third in the Ruffian (G2) at the Big A going a one-turn mile before a fourth in the Bed o’ Roses and fifth in the Ballerina Handicap (G1) at the Spa.

Godolphin’s Kentucky homebred Comparative starts from post 5 with jockey Manny Franco. She is 2-for-3 at the Big A for dual Eclipse Award-winner Brad Cox. The 4-year-old Street Sense bay enters from a seven-month layoff dating to a fourth to Tizzy in the Sky in the Top Flight, which followed a seventh in the Azeri (G2) on March 9 at Oaklawn Park.

Comparative’s pair of off-the-board results were disappointing, comparatively speaking, as she entered from a three-race win streak, including the local Ladies in January and the Bayakoa (G3) in February at Oaklawn Park.

Out of the Bernardini mare Collective, Comparative, a full sister to dual graded stakes-winner Shared Sense, boasts a lifetime record of 13: 5-0-3 with $429,995 in earnings.

Post	Silks	Horse / Sire	Rating	Trainer / Jockey	Last Start / Next Start	HRN
1		Tizzy in the Sky Sky Kingdom	5.47	Todd A. Pletcher Flavien Prat	6th, 2024 Ogden Phipps G1	3-1
Last Race		6th, 2024 Ogden Phipps G1
2		Stonewall Star Flatter	4.59	Horacio DePaz John R. Velazquez	4th, Ticonderoga S.	12-1
Last Race		4th, Ticonderoga S.
3		Occult Into Mischief	6.78	Chad C. Brown Irad Ortiz, Jr.	2nd, 2024 Spinster G1	5-2
Last Race		2nd, 2024 Spinster G1
4		Movie Moxy Street Sense	4.12	Linda Rice Jose Lezcano	1st, Aqu AlwOC (11/22/24-R2)	6-1
Last Race		1st, Aqu AlwOC (11/22/24-R2)
5		Comparative Street Sense	6.03	Brad H. Cox Manuel Franco	4th, 2024 Top Flight Invitational LS	6-1
Last Race		4th, 2024 Top Flight Invitational LS
6		Rachel’s Rock Jess’s Dream	4.45	Michelle Giangiulio Kendrick Carmouche	5th, 2024 Pumpkin Pie LS	30-1
Last Race		5th, 2024 Pumpkin Pie LS
7		Ain’t Broke Dialed In	4.12	Linda Rice Eric Cancel	5th, 2024 Ruffian G2 2024 Garland of Roses LS	5-1
Last Race Next Race		5th, 2024 Ruffian G2 2024 Garland of Roses LS
8		Shidabhuti Practical Joke	6.34	Chad C. Brown Dylan Davis	1st, KEE AOC (10/13/2024-R3)	9-2
Last Race		1st, KEE AOC (10/13/2024-R3)