It’s always exciting when you’ve got a mare in foal to stallion who’s just having his first runners and it’s especially exciting if two of those progeny are entered for a black-type event.
So just imagine you have a mare in foal to Time Test, go to YouTube and find the video of Race 5 at Newbury last night. The race concerned is the Listed St Hugh Stakes and the Time Test juvenile Tardis falls out of the gates, is all over the place in the run and then simply explodes over the last 100 metres. The other Time Test entrant, Romantic Time, whose dam is bred on a Sir Percy x Entrepreneur cross, surely needs more ground than the five furlongs and a few yards of the event. (She’s already had a couple of victories, so no worries there).
Tardis’ dam is by the speed influence Equiano out of a dam by the legendary Green Desert: it’s no surprise that she’s a quick filly. However, most breeders try to produce a fast horse with gears, as opposed to a speedy squib and it’s unarguable that Tardis has gears aplenty.
The mare I have sitting in the front paddock is the Rip Van Winkle offspring, Make Your Move. I bought her from Pencarrow and if you saw her you’d understand why she was sold on. She has a lovely head but she otherwise resembles a beer barrel on reasonably short legs. However, she produced a cracking filly by Darci Brahma, now a 2YO (and available for lease), so I’m looking forward to her Time Test foal arriving.
The foal will be closely inbred to both Dansili and Sadler’s Wells. The Dansili duplication is something of a gamble but I can’t see any reason why it wouldn’t work.
