From a family brimming with talented Juddmonte winners – Racing Post
Timeform rating of 110
Retirement Plan, a half-brother to Time Test, whose Timeform is 125 and has retired to stand at the English National Stud, has won 3/9 starts and is a son of the outstanding German stallion, Monsun. He is out of Passage of Time, one of Juddmonte Stud’s leading broodmares.
Passage of Time provided her trainer Sir Henry Cecil with a huge victory following her successful win of the Gr.1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud over 1m2f, proving too strong in the closing stages for Aidan O’Brien’s colt Soldier of Fortune (Galileo), with Mark Johnston’s Empire Day (Lomitas) three lengths adrift in third.
Retirement Plans wins:
- Ascot Dubai Duty Free Sherga Cup Stayers: Ascot
- Doncaster FSB Pension Scheme for Members Maiden Stakes
- Goodwood Betfred Mobile Lotto Handicap
Placed:
- Doncaster Ladbrokes Mallard Stakes
Retirement Plan is the first foal out of winning Passage Of Time (by Dansili), who was trained by the late Sir Henry Cecil to land the Group 1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud.
His sire Monsun, died in 2012 and left behind a legacy of several top class winners worldwide including the Breeders’ Cup, King George and Melbourne Cup heroes.
Retirement Plan is a half-brother to Time Test, who won the Group 3 Tercentenary Stakes at Royal Ascot in 2015 followed by the Group 2 Joel Stakes at Newmarket.
His dam is a full-sister to Group 2 King Edward VII Stakes winner Father Time and to listed scorer Continuum, and she is a half-sister to Group 1 Falmouth Stakes heroine Timepiece (by Zamindar). Their dam Clepsydra (by Sadler’s Wells), is in turn, a half-sister to Double Crossed (by Caerleon), the stakes-winning dam of dual Group 1 Champion Stakes star Twice Over (by Observatory). That four-time Group 1 ace has made a promising start to his stallion career in South Africa.
Third dam Quandary (by Blushing Groom) won the Listed James Seymour Stakes and the best of her stakes-winning siblings was All At Sea (by Riverman), the Group 1 Prix du Moulin de Longchamp heroine whose stamina ran out when chasing home User Friendly in the Group 1 Oaks at Epsom.
That star filly’s descendants include the top-level winners Mutual Trust (by Cacique) and Antonoe (by First Defence), her stakes-winning half-sister Full Virtue (by Full Out) is the ancestor of the Grade 1 scorers Hilda’s Passion (by Canadian Frontier) and Yoshida (by Heart’s Cry), while another half-sister – Quack A Doodledoo (by Quack) – is the grandam of US champion and multiple Grade 1 star Banshee Breeze (by Unbridled).
Tullaghansleek Stud 
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