Royal Approval is SW81 for Tiznow winning Sunday’s Gr3 Matron Stakes (6f) for 2yos on turf at Belmont.
Royal Approval started odds-on favourite and stalked Union Gables (Speightstown) to the home turn before gradually asserting her authority to win by three-quarters of a length with Magisterium (Elzaam) the same distance away in third.
Inbred 4×4 to Seattle Slew, the Three Chimneys-homebred Royal Approval is now winner of two of her four starts.
She is one of two winners out of Touch The Moon (Malibu Moon, a winner at three, her granddam Touch Here (Touch Gold) a half-sister to Gr1 Kentucky Oaks winner Summerly (Summer Squall).
US Horse Of The Year Tiznow (Cee’s Tizzy) is advertised at $40,000 at WinStar Farm in Kentucky in 2020.