IT’S a strange season when we have the ‘Midsummer Derby’ and we have yet to have the Derby proper. But it’s quite possible we would have had the same favourite for tonight’s Grade 1 Travers Stakes in Saratoga as Tiz The Law, already impressive winner of the Florida Derby and Belmont Stakes takes his unbeaten 2020 season record to upstate New York.

The white-faced colt has gained many fans for his veteran trainer Barclay Tagg and owners the Sackatoga Stables, not least in the professional way he has gone about his three wins, breaking well, settling off the pace and quickening with his effort of the final bend.