The regally bred Marr Time lived up to her lofty pedigree with a 2 3/4-length debut score Oct. 28 in the fifth race at Keeneland. The Clarkland Farm homebred is the penultimate foal out of 2016 Broodmare of the Yr Leslie’s Woman, making her a half sister to four-time Eclipse Award winner Beholder , to perennial leading sire and grade 1 winner Into Mischief , and to grade 1 winner Mendelssohn .
A star in the making! #4 MARR TIME makes her career debut a winning one @KeenelandRacing! Hold your eyes out for this 2YO daughter out of Leslie’s Woman sooner or later! @FloTheJock aboard for @BradCoxRacing & Clarkland Farm. @SpendthriftFarm 2YO Race of the Day pic.twitter.com/2FGFbrxAUx
— TVG (@TVG) October 28, 2021
Guess down because the heavy 3-5 favourite in opposition to a discipline of 10 maidens, the 2-year-old daughter of Not This Time was no secret to bettors after lighting up the morning work tab the last month at Keeneland. Three works back on Oct. 10, Marr Time clocked a bullet :59 2/5 five furlongs from the gate for trainer Brad Cox.
After breaking sharply from the 4 post, Marr Time bulled her way to the front and dueled with Roll Baby through a first quarter in :22.84 before putting aside that rival. Still on cruise control around the turn, the filly clocked a half-mile in :46.74 and was set down to a drive for the final quarter mile, surging away to a clear victory while kept to task under jockey Florent Geroux.
Marr Time was timed in 1:11.96 for the six furlongs on a fast main track.
“You may watch them work within the mornings and get your hopes up however you by no means know the way their going to run until the bell rings they usually cross the end line,” Fred Mitchell of Clarkland Farm stated following the race.
Trying to the long run, Mitchell added: “I am going to go away it as much as Brad (Cox) and see what he desires to do with (Marr Time) subsequent.”
Mitchell stated Marr Time did not undergo the public sale ring, in contrast to her well-known half siblings, as a result of he wished to retain a filly or two out of Leslie’s Woman for his daughters within the broodmare band. Leslie’s Woman, who produced her seventh winner with Marr Time, was retired from breeding in June of this yr. The ultimate foal from the 25-year-old is a yearling Kantharos filly named Love You Irene.
In 2019, Mitchell told BloodHorse the story behind the filly’s name.
“The reason for that is because my wife’s father was John Wesley Marr,” he said. “When the time changed, he would never change his clocks, and we always stayed on Central time. So about this time of the year, we’d always be two hours behind. So with her being by Not This Time, we chose Marr Time. It’ll be a nice memory for the kids and the grandkids to have, and she can come back and join the broodmare band.”
Video: Race 6 (ALW) at KEE on 10/28/21
