Not This Time ‘Rising Star’ On Time Girl Romps in Churchill’s Fern Creek

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Taylor Made's Not This Time, who currently leads all North American-based sires by black-type winners for 2025, further padded that number when Albaugh Family Stables homebred On Time Girl (f, 2, Not This Time–Girl Daddy, by Uncle Mo) captured Churchill's Fern Creek Stakes for juvenile fillies Saturday afternoon, bringing her sire's stakes winner count to 26 for the year.

The bay 2-year-old, a 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard', left the gate sharpest of all, almost immediately putting a length on the field, but Keeneland maiden winner Solemn Vow (Constitution) to her inside wanted to make an early race of it and On Time Girl let her go as Irad Ortiz, Jr. grabbed a hold. On Time Girl stayed on her rival's flank through :23.04 and :46.08 fractions, but took command in an instant off the turn when Ortiz niggled the reins. She responded even more with a couple of right-handed taps and kicked clear with aplomb to win by 3 1/2 lengths over Paige Turner (Army Mule), who had been stalking from third throughout after employing a similar tactic in her blowout maiden win last month over this surface. Previously undefeated A Fine Chardonnay (Maclean's Music), who handed On Time Girl her only career defeat, closed for third. The final time for the 6 1/2 furlongs was 1:15.83.

On Time Girl won on debut going six panels at Ellis Park in August, then came back a month later to take an allowance at the same distance by four lengths at Churchill. That second eye-catching run earned her 'Rising Star' status and she went into Keeneland's Dean Dorton Myrtlewood Stakes Oct. 24 favored by just a penny over A Fine Chardonnay. The latter edged past her late that day, but wasn't able to catch On Time Girl Saturday.

The Albaugh family bought On Time Girl's dam, Girl Daddy, for $500,000 at the Keeneland September sale in 2019 and campaigned her to a GIII Pocahontas Stakes win at a mile at Churchill before she finished third in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies to close out her brief career. On Time Girl is the mare's first foal to make it to the races. She has a weanling full-sister to the Fern Creek winner and was bred back to Flightline for 2026.

On Time Girl takes the Fern Creek at @churchilldowns for trainer @bradcoxracing with @iradortiz aboard!

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— TwinSpires Racing (@TwinSpires) November 29, 2025

FERN CREEK S., $225,000, Churchill Downs, 11-29, 2yo, f, 6 1/2f, 1:15.83, ft.
1–ON TIME GIRL, 122, f, 2, by Not This Time
1st Dam: Girl Daddy (GSW & GISP, $321,240), by
              Uncle Mo
              2nd Dam: Cara Marie, by Unbridled's Song
              3rd Dam: Miss Kilroy, by A.P. Indy
($375,000 RNA Ylg '24 KEESEP). 1ST BLACK TYPE WIN.
O/B-Albaugh Family Stables LLC (KY); T-Brad H. Cox; J-Irad
Ortiz, Jr. $134,160. 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard'
Lifetime Record: 4-3-1-0, $315,525.
2–Paige Turner, 122, f, 2, Army Mule–Sophia Mia, by
Pioneerof the Nile. ($350,000 2yo '25 OBSMAR). 1ST BLACK
TYPE. O-David Ingordo, West Point Thoroughbreds and
Danbro Farms, LLC; B-TMSI, Bell Tower Thoroughbreds,
Omar Aldabbagh, Frank Taylor, et al (KY); T-Cherie DeVaux.
$43,600.
3–A Fine Chardonnay, 122, f, 2, Maclean's Music–Andele, by
Bernardini. ($20,000 Ylg '24 FTKOCT; $85,000 2yo '25
EASMAY). O-Double 22 Stables, LLC; B-Alpha Delta Stables,
LLC (KY); T-Ian R. Wilkes. $21,800.
Margins: 3HF, 3HF, 1HF. Odds: 3.11, 1.83, 3.07.
Also Ran: Solemn Vow, Go to Girl, Woodstock, Mackinac, I B Flyin, River Rise. Scratched: Have Faith.
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