He’s not very big, but the speedy NO MORE TIME (Not This Time) zoomed to the early lead in the  Grade III, $250,000 Sam F. Davis Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs, went hard on the pace, was challenged and then pulled away to win under Paco Lopez.

Lopez’s instructions from trainer Jose Francisco D’Angelo were to try to break well from the No. 5 post and sit in a stalking position early in the mile-and-a-sixteenth race.  Instead, No More Time and Lopez flew to the front.

Despite running a 4-furlong split of 46.61 seconds and a 6-furlong time of 1:10.81 that were faster than both men wanted, the Iowa-bred son of Not This Time-Baroness Juliette, by Speightstown, had the vigor to turn back a serious challenge from longshot West Saratoga at the top of the stretch, then hold off Agate Road for a 1 ¼-length victory.

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