It's Our Time to skip Breeders' Cup, likely to run in Kentucky next
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It’s Our Time, the 17 3/4-length debut winning 2-year-old at Saratoga who finished fourth in Saturday’s Grade 1 Champagne at Aqueduct, could very well run again this year, but it won’t be in the Breeders’ Cup.
“We’re going to take it a little slower than we did after that last race,” trainer Tom Amoss said. “I foresee him running probably in Kentucky once he recovers. What kind of race, I don’t know.”
It’s Our Time, the 2-5 Champagne favorite, chased an extremely fast pace set by the winner, Napoleon Solo, before backing up frrom second to finish fourth, beaten 8 1/4 lengths.
“He came back good, looks good, ate up that night, which surprised me,” Amoss said.
Amoss added that It’s Our Time arrived back in Louisville on Sunday night and that, depending how he trains moving forward, he could very well run during the fall meet at Churchill Downs.
Churchill typically offers allowance races for 2-year-olds, and there is also the Grade 3, $200,000 Street Sense Stakes going a mile on Oct. 26 and the Grade 2, $400,000 Kentucky Jockey Club on Nov. 29.
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