Tuz is out of Suede Shoe (Pulpit), a three-time winner who has had seven runners, five of them winners. Among his four winning half-siblings is Broadway Boogie (Distorted Humor), who won ten races and was placed in several Listed races. Suede Shoe is a half-sister to the dam of the Group 3-placed winner Gaston.

Second dam Grande Melody (Grand Lodge) was a Grade 2 winner in the US.

Third dam Crystal Melody (Nureyev) is a full sister to Crystal Music (Nureyev), winner of the Gr.1 Fillies' Mile, placed in a Classic and dam of Firnas, a Listed winner in the UAE. Her half-siblings include Dubai Success (Sadler's Wells), winner of the Gr.3 John Porter S. and placed several times at Group 2 level, Solar Crystal (Alzao), winner of the May Hill S., then a Group 3, and placed in the Gr.1 Prix Marcel Boussac, State Crystal (High Estate), winner of the Lancashire Oaks, then a Group 3, and twice Group 1-placed, and the sire Tchaikovsky (Sadler's Wells), a winner who was placed in the Gr.1 Irish Derby and raced in Saudi Arabia as Mahan.

Another half-sister to Crystal Melody is the grandam of Space Traveller, a Group 2 winner who was twice placed at Group 1 level.

Suede Shoe's 3-year-old is the filly Vive La Vie (Demarchelier), and her latest cover was Caracaro.