Grade 1 winner Time and Motion retired to Darby Dan Farm

While Time and Motion lost her last six starts, most recently racing Oct. 28, it’s her best performances connections have in mind with a decision to retire the Grade 1 winner to Darby Dan Farm and start a career as a broodmare.

The Jimmy Toner trainee won the 2016 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Stakes at Keeneland amid a 3-year-old campaign in which she prevailed in five of seven starts overall.

"She's beautiful and she competed very aggressively against some very good horses,” Darby Dan’s John Phillips, who campaigned the filly, told BloodHorse.com. “So she has earned her spot in the broodmare band and earned her spot to enjoy the rest of her life eating grass hopefully making some babies.”

Phillips added that “we're still debating on what her mating plans might be.”

Time and Motion tried the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf in 2015 still as a maiden, finishing fifth. Next out, the daughter of Tapit won her first race and followed that up by taking the Memories of Silver Stakes at Aqueduct. The race is named for a great  granddaughter of top Darby Dan stallion Golden Trail. Time and Motion has Golden Trail in her bloodline as well.

Aside from the QE II, Time and Motion ran second to Catch a Glimpse in the 2016 Belmont Oaks Invitational before turning the tables on the champion in the Grade 2 Lake Placid at Saratoga.