Time Test

With Prince Khaled always being keen to give strong support to his own stallions, Darley's Dubawi initially went unsupported by Juddmonte. But the emergence of Dubawi's first two crops rapidly established that Dubawi was far too good to ignore, and the Prince began to support him.

Fortunately, the results have been little short of spectacular. Although Juddmonte's first Dubawi foal, the 4-year-old filly Radiator, has yet to fulfil the high hopes she generated with her 15-length victory at Lingfield at two, this daughter of Heat Haze has performed respectably at Group 1 level.

Next came two colts foaled in 2012, one out of the listed winner Cinnamon Bay, the other out of the Group 1-winning Passage of Time. The Cinnamon Bay colt, of course, turned out to be New Bay, who followed up his fine second in the Poule d'Essai des Poulains with a stylish victory in the G1 Prix du Jockey-Club. And now the Passage of Time colt–Time Test–has also displayed Group 1 potential with his highly impressive victory in the G3 Tercentenary S.

The neat, muscular Dubawi appealed as a mate for Passage of Time both from a physical and pedigree point of view. Passage of Time is a good-sized, rangy mare and she is by Dansili, a grandson of Danzig. Dubawi had already sired the Group 1 winners Poet's Voice and Makfi from other Danzig-line mares. The possibility therefore existed that Dubawi could get a talented 2-year-old with classic potential out of Passage of Time.

Time Test has every right to be highly talented, as Passage of Time started favorite for the 2007 Oaks on the strength of four consecutive wins, including the G1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud and G3 Musidora S. Although Passage of Time disappointed at Epsom, she later confirmed her class when third in the GI Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf and when beaten two heads in the G1 Nassau S.

Passage of Time's brother, Father Time, shone at the 2009 Royal Ascot meeting, taking the G2 King Edward VII S. and this is also the family of Twice Over, a half-length second to another Juddmonte colt, Byword, in the G1 Prince of Wales's S. in 2010. Twice Over, of course, won several of Europe's most important mile-and-a-quarter races–the G1 Champion S. at four and five, the G1 Coral-Eclipse at five and the G1 Juddmonte International at six–so it is tempting to hope that Time Test will eventually scale similar heights.

It is also tempting to hope that there are further chapters to be added to Juddmonte's success story with Dubawi, and it could pay to make a note of Forge, an imposing 2-year-old brother to Radiator. For later on there is a likeable yearling sister to Time Test, plus good 2015 foals out of the Dansili mare Arizona Jewel (a three-parts-sister to Kind, the dam of Frankel and Noble Mission) and Very Good News (a half-sister to Dansili and all of Hasili's Group 1 winners, including Champs Elysees, sire of yesterday's G1 Gold Cup winner Trip To Paris).