If the cards keep falling into place for Not This Time, life may hand him a “yes, it’s time” for the spring Classics. Already the sire of impressive UAE Two Thousand Guineas (UAE-G3) winner Six Speed, the stallion added two more hopefuls for the first weekend in May at Churchill Downs on the last weekend in January at Gulfstream Park. After airing by 5¾ lengths in the Holy Bull Stakes (USA-G3) on January 31, Not This Time’s son Nearly moved into the position of the early favorite for the Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve (USA-G1) following the defection of Ted Noffey from the Derby trail. Two races earlier on the same card, his daughter On Time Girl gained credentials and points toward a start in the Longines Kentucky Oaks (USA-G1) with a three-length score in the Forward Gal Stakes (USA-G3).
Bred and owned by the Albaugh family (who also campaigned Not This Time as a homebred), On Time Girl improved her record to four wins and a second from five starts while overcoming reluctance to start and a less-than-ideal trip. Already the winner of a 6½ furlong stakes race over the Churchill Downs strip, she has yet to be tried beyond sprint distances, but on paper, there is no reason yet to think her a pure speedster.
On Time Girl is the second foal and first winner for Uncle Mo's daughter Girl Daddy, a mare the Albaughs acquired as a US$500,000 yearling from the 2019 Keeneland September sale. In a three-start racing career, Girl Daddy easily trounced a maiden special weight field at Ellis Park, scampered home by two lengths in the 2020 Pocahontas Stakes (USA-G3), and ran third in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (USA-G1), two lengths and a nose behind divisional champion Vequist and Frizette Stakes (USA-G1) winner Dayoutoftheoffice, respectively. Her first foal, the 2022 Into Mischief filly Show and Tell, has not raced, and the mare’s only other produce is a yearling full sister to On Time Girl.
Girl Daddy is one of two winners from four named foals produced from the Unbridled’s Song mare Cara Marie, also the dam of a 2025 filly by Life Is Good. A Grade 2-placed stakes winner in her own racing days, Cara Marie is a half sister to Grade 3-placed listed stakes winner Abby’s Angel (by Touch Gold), whose gelded son Comicas (by Distorted Humor) won the 2018 Dubawi Stakes (UAE-G3), and to 2010 Irish Oaks (IRE-G1) runner-up Miss Jean Brodie (by Maria’s Mon). Cara Marie is also a half sister to Miss Ludy, whose daughter Ludy Lucia (by multiple Grade 1 winner Aragorn) won the 2017 Premio Copa de Plata Italo Traverso (CHI-G2), and to Twiggles (by Maria’s Mon), dam of multiple stakes winners Sweet Bye and Bye (by Sky Mesa) and Buy Land and See (by Cairo Prince).
Cara Marie, in turn, is out of the unraced A.P. Indy mare Miss Kilroy, a half sister to 2004 Davona Dale Stakes (USA-G2) winner Miss Coronado (by Coronado’s Quest), dam of 2013 Sharp Cat Stakes (USA-L) winner Arethusa (by A.P. Indy), and to multiple Grade 3 winner Karen’s Caper (by War Chant), dam of 2012 UAE Two Thousand Guineas winner Kinglet (by Kingmambo). The next dam in On Time Girl’s tail-female line, Miss Caerleona (by Caerleon), was a good staying filly who won the 1996 Cardinal Handicap (USA-G3) and placed in graded events at up to 1½ miles.
Overall, On Time Girl’s pedigree suggests that the 9 furlongs of the Kentucky Oaks should be within her scope, and trainer Brad Cox has indicated that she may start next in the one-mile Davona Dale Stakes (USA-G2) on February 28. This gradual stepping up in distance from 6 to 6½ to 7 to 8 furlongs is a rather old-fashioned approach for a modern trainer, but gradual development may be much the best approach for a filly whose sire and dam both had only brief (if highly promising) racing careers. One can hope that her reluctance to start in the Forward Gal does not reflect the development of a physical or mental problem that may bring her own racing career to a premature end.
Bred and owned by the Albaugh family (who also campaigned Not This Time as a homebred), On Time Girl improved her record to four wins and a second from five starts while overcoming reluctance to start and a less-than-ideal trip. Already the winner of a 6½ furlong stakes race over the Churchill Downs strip, she has yet to be tried beyond sprint distances, but on paper, there is no reason yet to think her a pure speedster.
On Time Girl is the second foal and first winner for Uncle Mo's daughter Girl Daddy, a mare the Albaughs acquired as a US$500,000 yearling from the 2019 Keeneland September sale. In a three-start racing career, Girl Daddy easily trounced a maiden special weight field at Ellis Park, scampered home by two lengths in the 2020 Pocahontas Stakes (USA-G3), and ran third in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (USA-G1), two lengths and a nose behind divisional champion Vequist and Frizette Stakes (USA-G1) winner Dayoutoftheoffice, respectively. Her first foal, the 2022 Into Mischief filly Show and Tell, has not raced, and the mare’s only other produce is a yearling full sister to On Time Girl.
Girl Daddy is one of two winners from four named foals produced from the Unbridled’s Song mare Cara Marie, also the dam of a 2025 filly by Life Is Good. A Grade 2-placed stakes winner in her own racing days, Cara Marie is a half sister to Grade 3-placed listed stakes winner Abby’s Angel (by Touch Gold), whose gelded son Comicas (by Distorted Humor) won the 2018 Dubawi Stakes (UAE-G3), and to 2010 Irish Oaks (IRE-G1) runner-up Miss Jean Brodie (by Maria’s Mon). Cara Marie is also a half sister to Miss Ludy, whose daughter Ludy Lucia (by multiple Grade 1 winner Aragorn) won the 2017 Premio Copa de Plata Italo Traverso (CHI-G2), and to Twiggles (by Maria’s Mon), dam of multiple stakes winners Sweet Bye and Bye (by Sky Mesa) and Buy Land and See (by Cairo Prince).
Cara Marie, in turn, is out of the unraced A.P. Indy mare Miss Kilroy, a half sister to 2004 Davona Dale Stakes (USA-G2) winner Miss Coronado (by Coronado’s Quest), dam of 2013 Sharp Cat Stakes (USA-L) winner Arethusa (by A.P. Indy), and to multiple Grade 3 winner Karen’s Caper (by War Chant), dam of 2012 UAE Two Thousand Guineas winner Kinglet (by Kingmambo). The next dam in On Time Girl’s tail-female line, Miss Caerleona (by Caerleon), was a good staying filly who won the 1996 Cardinal Handicap (USA-G3) and placed in graded events at up to 1½ miles.
Overall, On Time Girl’s pedigree suggests that the 9 furlongs of the Kentucky Oaks should be within her scope, and trainer Brad Cox has indicated that she may start next in the one-mile Davona Dale Stakes (USA-G2) on February 28. This gradual stepping up in distance from 6 to 6½ to 7 to 8 furlongs is a rather old-fashioned approach for a modern trainer, but gradual development may be much the best approach for a filly whose sire and dam both had only brief (if highly promising) racing careers. One can hope that her reluctance to start in the Forward Gal does not reflect the development of a physical or mental problem that may bring her own racing career to a premature end.
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