The Pencarrow-bred Tavi Time (NZ) (Tavistock) doubled his black-type tally with an impressive performance in Friday’s A$200,000 Listed Darley Scone Cup (1600m).

Previously the winner of the Group Three Summer Cup (2000m) at Randwick on Boxing Day, Tavi Time has now had 21 starts for nine wins, five placings and A$823,625 in stakes. He was offered in Pencarrow’s Book 1 draft at Karaka 2021, where Kiltannon Stables bought him for $60,000.

Friday’s Scone Cup was the third start of a new campaign for the Kris Lees-trained Tavi Time, who resumed with a second placing at Randwick on April 19 and then finished fifth in the Group Three Hawkesbury Cup (1600m) on May 3.

Tavi Time was right back at the peak of his powers third-up at Scone on Friday. He settled three back on the rail for jockey Jay Ford before getting a split two off the fence in the home straight. Ford drove his mount through that gap and Tavi Time produced a quality turn of foot, dashing to the front and winning by a length and three-quarters.

“Tavi Time has race fitness, having had the two runs back, and wasn’t far away on heavy ground in the Hawkesbury Cup a fortnight ago,” Lees said. “He appreciated getting back on to better ground at Scone and I was expecting him to run a good race.”

The Scone Cup is a qualifier for the A$3m The Big Dance (1600m) at Randwick in November. Tavi Time ran in that big-money feature this season, finishing fourth behind fellow Karaka graduate and subsequent Group One winner Gringotts (NZ) (Per Incanto).

Tavi Time is one of 55 individual stakes winners for the highly successful former Cambridge Stud stallion Tavistock (NZ).

The dam of Tavi Time is high-class homebred Pencarrow mare Guiseppina (NZ) (Johar), who herself had 21 raceday appearances for six wins, five placings and almost $370,000 in stakes. She won the Group One Telegraph Handicap (1200m) and placed in the Group One Livamol Classic (2040m) and Otaki-Maori WFA Classic (1600m).

Guiseppina had three further foals after producing Tavi Time in 2019. Tricolore (NZ) (U S Navy Flag) was born in 2020, followed by Sarti (NZ) (Snitzel) a year later and a colt by U S Navy Flag that was born last October.