Regally bred mare Time Saver, a close relative of Klawervlei Stud’s successful sire Twice Over, proved one of the star attractions on Tuesday’s session of the Tattersalls December Mares Sale.

Offered for sale by Genesis Green Stud, Time Saver (Lot 1727) was knocked down to Blandford Bloodstock’s Richard Brown for 850,000gns.
“We went a long way on her last year,” said Brown. “I can’t remember quite how far but it was a hell of a long way as we thought she was the standout of last year’s Juddmonte draft.She’s come back in foal to a very exciting stallion and mares like this come on the market very rarely.
“It’s an amazing family and a very active pedigree; there was another Grade 1 winner in America on there at the weekend [Viadera] and Time Test is a young stallion I have a lot of time for.She’s been bought for a partnership of owner-breeders and she’ll live with Luca and Sara Cumani at Fittocks Stud. We knew she’d be hard to buy so we put a partnership together to get her bought.”

In foal to Kingman, Time Saver is an unraced Frankel half-sister to G1 winners Passage Of Time (Criterium de Saint-Cloud) and Timpiece (Falmouth Stakes), while her own dam Clepsydra is a half-sister to Oaks Trial heroine Double Crossed, the dam of Klawervlei’s four time G1 winning sire Twice Over.

This is also the immediate family of recent G1 Matriarch Stakes heroine Viadera.