Of course, breeding is a promise, not a guarantee. Some horses arrive with the most impressive family trees imaginable and never quite live up to them. Others surprise everyone. With no races under her belt, there is simply nothing to go on beyond those bloodlines and whatever the trainer has seen on the gallops at home. What we do know is that at three years old, Nighttime is stepping out at exactly the age when horses like her are expected to start translating potential into performance. Today is the first real answer to the question everyone around her has been asking for three years.