As far as pedigrees go for the likely entrants in this year’s $500,000 Woodbine Oaks, NO TIME has brilliant lineage that already makes her a valuable filly. Bred by James and Janeane Everatt and Arika Everatt Meeuse, No Time comes into the Oaks stakes-placed, placed third in the Cup & Saucer Stakes on the turf last year at two against the boys.
A $250,000 Saratoga yearling purchase in 2023, No Time would add on perhaps $1 million to her value should she win in the Oaks for owner Gary Barber.
No Time is by Not This Time (Giant’s Causeway), who was seventh on the sirelist in North America last year, has some 10 stakes winners already in 2025, and throws any kind of horse.
The dam of No Time, COUNT TO THREE, a Sam-Son Farms’ homebred who won the Zadracarta Stakes at Woodbine, a six furlong turf race and part of a three-race win streak for the bay in 2006.
A favourite horse of Emma-Jayne Wilson, who rode her in virtually all of her starts, Count to Three was graded stakes-placed and stakes-placed a total of six other times in addition to her Zadracarta win.
In the breeding shed, Count to Three is the dam of two Grade 1 winners, RANSOM THE MOON, by Malibu Moon, who won two editions of the Grade 1 Bing Crosby in California, and millionaire COUNT AGAIN, by Awesome Again, who won the Frankie Kilroe and Shoemaker Miles, both Grade 1s.
The Everatts obtained Count to Three from Sam-Son after the mare failed to sell in January 2017 at Keeneland for $14,000. Count to Three has a two-year-old colt by Knicks Go named Go On Three.
The FIFTH DAM of No Time is Irish Acres Farm’s TANNED (More Sun), dam of three-time winner Copper Carat, an Ontario-bred owned by Patricia Kennedy. Tanned produced WARMED BOTTOM, by Hitting Away, who won four races and is the dam of $300,000 earner Fannys Fox, stakes-placed Lord Windermere and stakes winner Summer Tale.
Third dam Cloudy and Warm was a multiple winner by Cloudy Dawn and she produced Grade 1 winner COUNTUS IN (Dancing Count), who was bought by Sam-Son in 1996 for $200,000 before producing Count to Three.
Sam-Son won eight Woodbine Oaks (a record) before all of its horses were sold off.
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The first Woodbine (Canadian) Oaks winner was AIR PAGE in 1953, a daughter of Bull Page who also won the Maple Leaf Stakes. Eight Oaks winners since 1956 have come back to win the Plate.
Sam-Son Farms bred and co-owned Count Again, who flew to a fast win in the Grade 1 Shoemaker Mile at Santa Anita in 2022. (Benoit photo)
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