OKLAHOMA CITY, OK—FEBRUARY 24, 2021—The speeds were nominally faster in the 13 training races Wednesday than they were in Tuesday’s 13 but that will happen when you go from a 15 mph headwind to a 20 mph tailwind the next day.

On Wednesday, it was Itsjustamatteroftime that was all about time, the fastest time of the day at 250 yards in the schooling races, :13.510 seconds, earning a 79 speed index.

Trainer Mike Robbins sent out 2-year-old Quarter Horse gelding Itsjustamatteroftime for owner Reliance Ranches of Guthrie, Okla., and the son of first-crop sire Big Lew, out of the Feature Mr Jess mare Spoiled Jess, was best to the wire in the 10th race.

In fact, the second-place horse, Tempting Stoli’s 77 speed index was faster than any other winner on Wednesday. That Tempting Dash filly out of Trey Wood’s barn hit the wire in :13.579 seconds, a neck back of the winner.

Big Lew won 8-of-24 starts lifetime for earnings of $638,878, including a victory in the Grade 1 Los Alamitos Super Derby on the West Coast. He was anmed the AQHA Racing Champion 2-year-Old Colt and 3-Year-Old Colt in 2015 and 2016.

On the bottom side of Itsjustamatteroftime’s pedigree, his maternal grandsire, Feature Mr Jess is a seven-time American Quarter Horse Association Racing Champion Sire with earners that have banked about $25 million. Some of his progeny were champions on the track as well, such as Heartswideopen, who won the 2007 Grade 1 $2 million All American Futurity. So, Robbins appears to have a swift gelding that has a blue-blooded pedigree for sure.

Multiple graded stakes winning jockey Esgar Ramirez was in the irons for Robbins on this winner. Ramirez has won the sport’s biggest race twice, the Grade 1 $2 million All American Futurity, in 2016 with Imperial Eagle and 2010 with Mr Piloto.

The weather conditions during Itsjustamatteroftime’s training race were 62 degrees with a 17 mph tailwind.

The other winners (Quarter Horses unless otherwise noted) in Wednesday’s training races with their times and speed indexes in chronological order of the race they won were: Farrah Levi (13.738 seconds, 70 speed index); AJS Tres of Paint (13.681, 73); Over the Shock (Paint, 13.860, 65); Ventura Haiwei (13.850, 66); Remember Me Seis (13.910, 63); Revenant Moon (13.650, 74); BP Fancydownsouth (13.600, 76); Smith Works (Paint, 14.020, 59); Tempting Uno Mas (13.666, 73); Jess Reloaded (13.772, 69); Waitin On Eight (13.741, 70), and Foolse Lodge (13.670, 73).

Four trainers had multiple wins in the training races Wednesday – Trey Wood, three; Clint Crawford, three; Troy Carter and Matt Whitekiller, two each.

Apollitical Jess led all sires with four winners on the card. First-crop sire A Revenant got his first winner in Race 6. Other sires with winners were Bodacious Dash Corona Cartel, CRM Livewire, Foose, Im A Fancy Pyc, Painted Turnpike, Tempting Dash, Tres Seis and Valiant Hero.

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