NEWS & EVENTS

LA - An Opportunity to Breed to the Best

Monday, 12 April 2021 20:59

Saturday’s ATC Derby result was another positive one for the New Zealand industry, and one which will ensure Australian buyers continue to raid the Karaka sales for our best staying talent, however given that Tavistock, sire of Saturdays Derby runner-up Young Werther and the seasons VRC Derby winner Johnny Get Angry, and Jackalberry, sire of Saturdays Derby winner Explosive Jack, are both sadly deceased, breeders should be considering the heir apparent. 

Little Avondale sire Time Test has a profile of a stallion who can leave Derby and Oaks winners. Australian owners clearly think so given their appetite for his stock across the Australasian yearling sale series with upwards of ten yearlings destined for Australian stables including the likes of Ciaron Maher and David Eustace, Chris Waller, Michael and Richard Freedman and Tony Gollan. 

Time Test is a son of the incomparable Dubawi, sire of many number of Cups, Derby's and Oaks winners all around the world and his female family, nurtured expertly by the great Juddmonte operation, is full of middle distance black type winners and underpinned by two of the globes leading staying influences in dam sire Dansili and grand dam sire Sadlers Wells. 

A Gr.2 winner over a mile at Newmarket on fast ground, Time Test carried his speed to a track record success over a mile and 1/4 at Ascot and a Gr.2 win at a mile and 5/8. Whilst proficient on all types of ground, Time Test clearly had a penchant for fast surfaces and his ability to quicken had him consistently rated as a potential Gr.1 winner throughout his 14 start career, something that probably only evaded him due to striking soft ground in his four assignments at the elite level, in which he still managed two seconds, a third and a fourth placing.

 Averaging 7.4 times his service fee for his first 23 Australasian yearlings sold and standing at $8,500 plus GST in 2021, Time Test will be on the radar of every astute breeder with an eye to the future.

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Pip McCarroll, Owner