Juddmonte Farms’ homebred dual group 2 winner and sire Time Test will continue his stud career in Turkey.
Time Test was retired to the National Stud near Newmarket for an opening fee of £8,500 in 2018, a figure that remained the same until 2022, when it rose to £15,000 for two seasons before returning to £8,500 this term. He had also shuttled to New Zealand’s Little Avondale Stud.
A statement from the Jockey Club of Turkey on X read: “Another successful name, purchased by the Turkish Jockey Club, is coming to our country to serve our breeders starting from the 2025 breeding season.
“Time Test, whose import operations are ongoing, will stand in our country in 2025.”
The 12-year-old son of Dubawi and group 1 winner Passage Of Time was a winner on his second start as a 2-year-old for Roger Charlton. He went on to land the London Gold Cup on his 3-year-old bow before a first group victory in the Tercentenary Stakes (G3) at Royal Ascot.
Time Test wins the 2015 Tercentenary Stakes
at Ascot Racecourse
Following a fourth behind Arabian Queen in the Juddmonte International (G1), he won the Joel Stakes (G2) at Newmarket, and then had a crack at the Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) at Keeneland, finishing unplaced behind dual American champion Tepin.
He again won first time out as a 4-year-old, taking the Brigadier Gerard Stakes (G3), and he returned to Sandown to finish third in the Coral-Eclipse Stakes (G1) behind Hawkbill . That campaign ended with his second success at the group 2 level in the York Stakes (G2).
Transferred to Chad Brown in America in 2017, as a 5-year-old Time Test was runner-up in all three starts, including the Manhattan Stakes (G1) at Belmont Park and Fourstardave Handicap (G1) at Saratoga Race Course.
Time Test’s progeny is headed by Beresford Stakes (G2) winner and Tattersalls Gold Cup (G1) third Crypto Force; Gordon Richards Stakes (G3) winner Okeechobee; Dick Poole Fillies’ Stakes (G3) winner Romantic Time; and Thoroughbred Stakes (G3) winner Rocchigiani, who was also runner-up in the German Two Thousand Guineas (G2) and later was renamed Flaming Rabbit after being exported to Hong Kong.
Overall, Time Test is the sire of 19 individual black-type performers.
