The aptly-named Time to Dream (Not This Time) impressed in her career unveiling Friday to become the newest 'TDN Rising Star' at Saratoga for trainer Todd Pletcher and owner Mike Repole. Racing as part of a coupled entry with stablemate Flighttown (Practical Joke), the 7-2 shot was drawn nearly widest of the field in this one-mile turf event and despite a clean beginning, was outrun was a host of rivals to her inside. Jose Ortiz guided his filly down to race a path off the hedge just outside of Curly Q Girl (Curlin) in fifth into the clubhouse turn. Second-time starter Maiora (Speightstown) had a loose lead onto the backstretch with Time to Dream following her stablemate who raced just ahead of her a little further out on the track. Stuck behind a wall of runners past the half-mile pole in :48.06, Time to Dream had to check briefly which left Flighttown to take first crack at Maiora midway around the far turn. Really picking up the bridle once swung out five wide, the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga grad quickly put this field behind her with an eye-catching final quarter-mile to come home 2 1/4 lengths ahead of the pacesetter.
Joining an illustrious list of 'Rising Stars' for Repole and Pletcher that includes the likes of Eclipse champion 2-year-olds Fierceness (City of Light) and Forte (Violence) along with recent GI Stephen Foster winner Mindframe (Constitution), Time to Dream is the eighth 'Rising Star' for Not This Time and his third this month alone. A $750,000 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga grad last year, the winner is a half to MGSW/GISP Red Carpet Ready (Oscar Performance) who sold just last year for $1.5m at FTKNOV to Case Clay. First dam Wild Silk, though unraced herself, is a half-sister to GI Vosburgh Stakes winner Joking (Distorted Humor) and this is also the family of GSW/MGISP sire Fed Biz (Giant's Causeway). Wild Silk, purchased by Clover Hill Farm at KEENOV in 2017 for $70,000, produced a Cody's Wish colt this season and returned to Not This Time for a full-sibling to Time to Dream next year.
7th-Saratoga, $100,000, Msw, 7-25, 2yo, f, 1mT, 1:36.56, fm,
2 1/4 lengths.
TIME TO DREAM, f, 2, Not This Time
1st Dam: Wild Silk, by Street Sense
2nd Dam: Spun Silk, by A.P. Indy
3rd Dam: Spunoutofcontrol, by Wild Again
Sales History: $750,000 Ylg '24 FTSAUG. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $55,000. Click for the Equibase.com chart and VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV. Click for the free Equineline.com catalog-style pedigree.
O-Repole Stable; B-Maggie Gieseke (KY); T-Todd A. Pletcher. *1/2 to Red Carpet Ready (Oscar Performance), MGSW & GISP, $799,175.
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