Advantage It Tiz Well in Summertime Oaks

In a pair of starts against fellow 'TDN Rising Stars'–Paradise Woods (Union Rags) and her sidelined stablemate Unique Bella (Tapit) and–Tommy Town Thoroughbreds' It Tiz Well (Arch) was beaten a cumulative total of 21 ½ lengths when runner-up in the GII Santa Ynez S. and third in the GI Santa Anita Oaks, respectively. With nothing remotely of that quality signed on for Saturday's GII Summertime Oaks at Santa Anita, the $230,000 Keeneland September purchase has the edge in experience and looks to have a fine shot at rediscovering her winning ways.

Never outside the top three in six tries to date, It Tiz Well annexed a seven-furlong allowance by a widening margin Feb. 3, then stretched out successfully to a route of ground for a one-length success in Oaklawn's GIII Honeybee S. Mar. 11. She was left some 14 lengths in the wake of Paradise Woods in the Santa Anita Oaks, the form of which has been further franked by Abel Tasman (Quality Road)'s subsequent victories in the GI Kentucky Oaks and GI Acorn S.

Faypien (Ghostzapper), a $720,000 acquisition out of last year's OBS April Sale, debuted with a third to Paradise Woods over an insufficient 5 ½ furlongs Mar. 11, but has landed her two most recent appearances over seven panels, including a half-length defeat of her Grade I-winning stable companion Noted and Quoted (The Factor) in the May 14 Angel Flight S.

Mopotism (Uncle Mo) was the distant runner-up to Unique Bella in the GII Las Virgenes S. Feb. 5, then shipped into Sunland Park and walked away with a popular 3/4-length success in the Island Fashion S. Feb. 26. A distant fourth to Paradise Woods in the Santa Anita Oaks, the bay exits a 10th in the Kentucky Oaks May 5.