Time Test relocating from the National Stud to Turkey for 2025

Time Test: relocating to Turkey from the National StudCredit: © Peter Mooney

Dual Group 2 winner and black type-winning sire Time Test will continue his stud career in Turkey. 

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 Juddmonte-bred son of Dubawi and Group 1 winner Passage Of Time was a winner on his second start as a two-year-old for Roger Charlton. He went on to land the London Gold Cup on his three-year-old bow before a first Group victory in the Group 3 Tercentenary Stakes at Royal Ascot. 

Following a fourth behind Arabian Queen in the Group 1 Juddmonte International, he won the Group 2 Joel Stakes at Newmarket, and then had a crack at the Breeders' Cup Mile at Keeneland, finishing unplaced behind Tepin.

He again won first time out as a four-year-old, taking the Group 3 Brigadier Gerard Stakes, and he returned to Sandown to finish third in the Group 1 Coral-Eclipse behind Hawkbill. That campaign ended with his second success at Group 2 level in the York Stakes.

Transferred to Chad Brown in the United States, as a five-year-old Time Test was runner-up in two Grade 1s, the Manhattan Stakes and Fourstardave Handicap.

Time Test was retired to the National Stud for an opening fee of £8,500 in 2018, a figure which 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.

Time Test's progeny is headed by Group 2 Beresford Stakes winner and Group 1 Tattersalls Gold Cup third Crypto Force, Group 3 Gordon Richards Stakes winner Okeechobee, Group 3 Dick Poole Stakes winner Romantic Time, and Group 3 Thoroughbred Stakes winner Rocchigiani, who was also runner-up in the Group 2 German 2,000 Guineas. He was renamed Flaming Rabbit after being exported to Hong Kong.

Also among Time Test's offpsring are Listed scorers Betty Clover, Panic, Leedox, The King's Horses and Tardis, while Sunset Shiraz was third in the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes. 

Overall, the 12-year-old is the sire of 19 individual black-type performers, including four Group winners. 

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