The yellow school buses are on reserve. Jack Knowlton and his merry band from Sackatoga Stable are back at the Kentucky Derby for the first time in 17 years.
This time with a horse everyone knows.Tiz the Law is 4-0 this year, winning by a combined 16 1/2 lengths. The colt is expected to be installed as the biggest Derby favorite in years when post positions are drawn on Tuesday.Quite a difference from 2003.That’s when Knowlton and a handful of partners arrived in Louisville with Funny Cide.
Hardly a regal name, let alone a blueblood. He was a gelding — none had won the Derby since 1929 — bred far from the Kentucky bluegrass in New York and costing $75,000.Sent off at 13-1 odds, Funny Cide won by 1 1/2 lengths, thrilling the Sackatoga group.