Time Limit, shown after a Saratoga Race Course victory with Three Diamonds’ Debra Wycoff. Susie Raisher photo.
By Tom Law
Three Diamonds Farm’s Time Limit returned to the East Coast after three starts in California, Arkansas and Louisiana to end 2021 and start 2022 and came away with her first stakes victory in the $100,000 What A Summer Saturday at Laurel Park.
Sent off the 7-1 sixth choice in the field of 12 older fillies and mares, the 5-year-old daughter of New York-based sire Bustin Stones stalked the early pace of Princess Kokachin before taking the lead in deep stretch on the way to a 1 ¼-length win over Kaylasaurus. Princess Kokachin wound up third in the 6-furlong What A Summer. Time Limit won in 1:11.39.
Bred by Hibiscus Stables and the second foal out of the winning Freud mare Your Time Is Up, Time Limit improved to 5-5-5 from 17 starts with the What A Summer victory. She also picked up $60,000 to increase her career bankroll to $518,120.
Trained by Mike Maker, Time Limit won her debut in late June 2019 at Belmont Park before making six consecutive stakes appearances. She finished second in the Grade 3 Matron at Belmont and Seeking the Ante at Saratoga Race Course during that stretch to earn a nod as finalist for champion New York-bred 2-year-old filly.
Unraced at 3, Time Limit returned in 2021 and won three of nine starts with a placing in the Senator Ken Maddy Stakes during Breeders’ Cup Weekend at Del Mar. She started the 2022 season on New Year’s Day with a third in the Nelson J. Menard Memorial Stakes going 5 ½ furlongs on the grass at Fair Grounds.
Back on the dirt in the What A Summer, Time Limit and jockey Victor Carrasco raced behind Princess Kokachin through early splits of :22.86 and :58.58 over the fast surface. Princess Kokachin shook clear turning for home, opened up 1 1/2 lengths in midstretch but couldn’t hold off Time Limit late.
Time Limit is a full sister to the five-time winner and $136,076-earner Fleet Warrior and the 3-year-old gelding Lil Stevie, a $40,000 yearling at the 2020 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern fall yearling sale. Time Limit was purchased by the Wycoff family’s Three Diamonds Farm at the same sale for $30,000.
Your Time Is Up is also the dam of an unraced 2-year-old Bustin Stones filly purchased by Roddy Valente for $40,000 at last year’s Fasig-Tipton Eastern fall sale and another yearling colt by Bustin Stones born April 30, 2021.
