October 3, 2025
Double Down Horse Racing’s It is our time trials a dominant debut score in the grade 1 of Saturday, $ 500,000 champagne, a kilometer for a turn for young people, in Belmont at Big A.
The Champagne is a “win and you’re in” qualifying event for the grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile on October 31 in Del Mar and also offers 10-5-3-2-1 qualifying points for the top five finishers to the degree 1 Kentucky Derby in May in Churchill Downs.
It is our time installed as the even money favorite in a field of nine horses.
Trained by Tom Amoss, the not this time Dark Bay was bumped into Saratoga Race Course at the start of his 6 1/2 Furlong debut on August 16, recovering to stalk the favorite hero, explained the command of the five-sixteen and built a 10-length lead by the stretch call.
It is our time, although directed under recurring rider Luis Saez, extended to a 17 3/4-length victory over the Whit Beckman-Train hero declared in the last time of 1: 15.63. The performance earned an impressive 94 Beyer speed figure and stood out among a bustling degree 1 Alabama Day in the Spa.
“That version was definitely an eye opening,” said Amoss. “Now he has to do against accomplished horses. I think there is a bit of a target on his back. He has to show that he can do it again because that was such a spoken race. He has a lot to realize.”
Amoss said he thought the idea to stretch it out, it is our time-out to the kilometer of once.
“He ran an exceptionally fast time, and although he ended with a lot of energy and galloped very well, as a trainer, I train to switch him to gradually gain more distance and we have the option to go a mile of a turn,” Amoss said. “That is a luxury, versus a race with two turns, that’s why we do it.”
It’s our time [post 6, Luis Saez] completed his preparations with a five Furlong Bries in 1: 01.40 in the company of Spa debut winner Big Dom on September 27 in Churchill Downs.
“They went together, and it was a training that we had designed for them to stay together,” said Amoss. “Neither of them was in question in the last part of the work. It was more of a work in a endurance style.”
Bred in Virginia by South Gate Farm, it is our time, a purchase of $ 425,000 Keeneland September Yearling Sale, is outside the multiple summer front mare Shea d Summer. His third dam, Circle of Gold, is a full sister for several class 1 winner Flanders-the 2-year-old Merrieveeulen of the 1994 champion.
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