McPeek Hopes to Have a Blast with Tiz the Bomb in Sunday's Castle & Key Bourbon

Like father, like son?

Trainer Kenny McPeek hopes that is the case Sunday afternoon when he sends out Tiz the Bomb in the Castle & Key Bourbon (G2), a “Win and You’re In” race for the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1) to be run Nov. 5 at Del Mar.

“He’s a very good horse,” McPeek said about the son of Hit It a Bomb, winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf here in 2015. “I would have run him in the (Claiborne) Breeders’ Futurity (G1) if the owner (Phoenix Thoroughbred III Ltd.) didn’t have another one (Double Thunder) in there.”

Tiz the Bomb enters Sunday’s Castle & Key Bourbon off a victory in the Kentucky Downs Juvenile Mile on Sept. 6 in his turf debut. Prior to that victory, Tiz the Bomb won an off-the-turf maiden race at Ellis Park by 14¼ lengths.

McPeek has won the Bourbon three times, most recently with Lawn Ranger in 2014.

In the race preceding the Bourbon, McPeek will send out Three Chimneys Farm and Walking L Thoroughbreds’ Envoutante in the Juddmonte Spinster (G1).

McPeek is seeking his third victory in the race, having repeated with Take Charge Lady in 2002-2003. “It’s a tough race,” he said.