Time and Motion rerouted to Glens Falls

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Believing that last Saturday’s Grade 2 Ballston Spa had come up too tough, trainer Jimmy Toner scratched Time and Motion from that race and now likely will supplement her to Saturday’s Grade 3, $200,000 Glens Falls at Saratoga.

“All the horses coming back from the Diana came,” Toner said. “I didn’t think they’d all come back, and Lady Eli, I think she puts a different dimension on things. I didn’t want to run against her.”

Lady Eli won the Ballston Spa.

Time and Motion, who went 5 for 7 in 2016, including a victory in the Grade 1 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup, is winless in three starts this year. Most recently, she finished third in the Modesty Handicap at Arlington Park on July 8.

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The Glens Falls is run at 1 3/8 miles and would mark Time and Motion’s longest race.

“Her best races last year were a mile and an eighth,” Toner said. “She was second in the [Belmont] Oaks going a mile and a quarter. Let me just try it and see what happens.”

On Monday, Time and Motion worked five furlongs in 1:02.88 over the Oklahoma turf course.

Others under consideration for the Glens Falls are Estrechada, Grateful, Harmonize, Lottie, Sarandia, Summersault, Sweet Sandy, and War Flag.