Time for Truth breaks his maiden Dec. 31 at Oaklawn Park (Coady Photography)
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By Robert Yates – Oaklawn Park
HOT SPRINGS, Ark.— Time for Truth’s second season begins April 27 at Oaklawn when the promising colt resurfaces in the $200,000 Bachelor Stakes, trainer Ron Moquett said Saturday morning.
The Bachelor, a six-furlong race for 3-year-olds, closed April 13 with 19 nominations. Entries will be taken and post positions drawn Sunday morning for the Bachelor and $200,000 Dig A Diamond Stakes for older fillies and mares at one mile. The Dig A Diamond is also April 27.
Time for Truth will be cutting back to a sprint after finishing sixth in the $1.5 million G1-Arkansas Derby March 30. Time for Truth was beaten 12 ¼ lengths in the nine-furlong race by Muth after setting the early pace.
“I thought that he showed he had ability,” Moquett said. “I thought it was an oddly run race that didn’t work out too much in our favor. All those middle moves, where those horses came up on the inside. We’re sitting there trying to rate. I wasn’t displeased for a horse as lightly raced as he was. I thought he did OK.”
Co-owned by Arkansan Harry Rosenblum, Time for Truth will be making his fifth career start in the Bachelor.
Time for Truth became the first Oaklawn winner for his sire, Omaha Beach, with a front-running 1 ¾-length debut score at six furlongs Dec. 31, then tackled stakes company in his next start and finished second in the $150,000 Ozark at six furlongs Feb. 10.
In his first start around two turns, Time for Truth came from just off the pace to win a first-level allowance at 1 1/16 miles March 2. That was his bridge to the Arkansas Derby. Moquett calls the Bachelor a “reset” for the colt.
“The best of this horse is down the road,” Moquett said.
Time for Truth, under 2023-2024 Oaklawn leading rider Cristian Torres, completed major preparations for the Bachelor with a half-mile work in :48.60 over a fast track Saturday morning.
