OZONE PARK, N.Y. – As is the case every year, trainers Todd Pletcher and Chad Brown are watching several accomplished horses leave their barn for the breeding shed. As is the case, almost every year, there appear to be suitable replacements to fill the void. Pletcher bid adieu to older males Fierceness, Locked, and Mindframe, who in 2025 alone combined to win four Grade 1 stakes. Life and Times, a late-starting colt, looks to have the promise of a graded stakes winner in 2026. In only two starts this fall, both coming late in his 4-year-old year, Life and Times has dazzled with two open-length, fast-rated victories. He won a maiden race on Nov. 1 by 5 3/4 lengths, earning a 104 Beyer Speed Figure, and then came back to win a first-level allowance by 6 3/4 lengths last Saturday, earning a 100. Originally, Life and Times was assigned a 94 Beyer Speed Figure for his Nov. 1 victory. After Time to Win, third in that race, came back to win a maiden race on Dec. 4 with a 103 Beyer Speed Figure, it confirmed a suspicion Beyer Speed Figure maker Mark Hopkins had that the Nov. 1 race figure should have been higher. :: Access the most trusted data and information in horse racing! DRF Past Performances and Picks are available now. “The race on Thursday immediately told me I got this wrong so I changed it,” Hopkins said. Life and Times further justified the higher figure with a strong front-running allowance win, in which he ran a mile in 1:35.32. Pletcher had to stop on Life and Times before he ever made it to the races. The horse had seven workouts between June and late August in 2024 and then one work in late September before disappearing from the work tab for six months. Life and Times, a son of Justify owned by Michael Tabor, resumed breezing in the spring and was entered to run in early June at Saratoga before being sidelined by a quarter crack. “I appreciate Mr. Tabor’s patience,” Pletcher said. “It took a while to get him there. It’s been frustrating. It’s becoming less frustrating now.” Life and Times will winter in South Florida. Depending how ambitious Tabor and Pletcher want to get, there is the $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational at 1 1/8 miles on Jan. 24 at Gulfstream Park. That same card also has the Grade 3, $150,000 Fred Hooper at one mile, the same one-turn configuration as each of the colt’s first two starts. Like Pletcher in the older dirt male division, trainer Chad Brown lost Grade 1-winning older females Randomized and Raging Sea to the breeding shed. In 2026, Fully Subscribed could fill the void for both Brown and owner Seth Klarman, who campaigned Randomized. Fully Subscribed was a four-length winner of last Sunday’s Grade 3 Comely Stakes, a race that came one month after she won the Grade 2 Mother Goose by 4 1/2 lengths. A daughter of Tiz the Law, Fully Subscribed is now 3 for 5 in her career, with her last two wins coming at 1 1/8 miles. Fully Subscribed, who earned a 92 Beyer for the Comely, will now get a break in South Florida and be aimed to a 4-year-old campaign that could begin in the Grade 1 La Troienne Stakes the first Friday in May at Churchill Downs. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.