Leading third-season sire Not This Time's fee raised to $135,000 at Taylor Made

Taylor Made Stallions has set its 2023 stallion roster and fees for the upcoming breeding season, headed by runaway third-crop sire Not This Time, who will stand for $135,000 S&N.

Taylor Made will further bolster its roster in 2023 with the arrival of Grade 1 winner Idol, winner of the 2021 Santa Anita Handicap and a full brother to multiple Grade 1 winner Nest, who will stand his initial season at stud for $10,000 as a Repole Stable/Taylor Made Stallions venture.

Not This Time, a son of Giant's Causeway, continues to blaze a trail on the leading sire ranks. The leading freshman sire of 2020 by number of winners and black type winners, and the leading second-crop sire of 2021 in all key statistical categories, Not This Time once again finds himself at the top of the heap this season.

In 2022, he boasts a crop-best 12 stakes winners, 25 black type horses, five Graded winners, a pair of Grade 1 winners, and progeny earnings on the year of $10,633,215 thus far. He is the number two-ranked sire of three-year-olds by earnings, second only to Gun Runner, and he is the leading sire in North America by percentage of black type Winners for the second consecutive year - 8.3 per cent, higher than Into Mischief, Quality Road, Tapit, Uncle Mo and Curlin.

Epicenter: top-class performer and son of Not This TimeCredit: Jessie Holmes/EquiSport Photos

His top performer on the track this season is Epicenter, who has enjoyed a stellar season and is among the leading contenders for this year's Breeders' Cup Classic. Epicenter has demonstrated his class and consistency all season long for Winchell Thoroughbreds and trainer Steve Asmussen, winning the Travers Stakes, Jim Dandy Stakes, Louisiana Derby, Risen Star Stakes and the Gun Runner Stakes. He was also second in the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes, amassing earnings of $2,810,000 in his sophomore campaign.

Not This Time is also represented this year by Grade 1 winner Just One Time, victorious in the Madison Stakes and Inside Information Stakes and third in the Distaff Stakes for owners Warrior's Reward and Commonwealth New Era Racing and trainer Brad Cox.

Simplification won the Fountain of Youth Stakes, was runner-up in the Holy Bull Stakes, and third in the Florida Derby for Tami Bobo and Tristan de Meric and trainer Antonio Sano. Additional Graded winners include Midnight Stroll, winner of the Delaware Oaks and Arzak, who annexed the Jacques Cartier Stakes.

In addition to their performance on the racetrack, progeny of Not This Time continue to command top dollar in the auction ring as well. In Books 1 and 2 at Keeneland September, Not This Time saw 13 yearlings sell from 14 offered. They averaged $402,692 and included an $875,000 colt purchased by Repole Stable and St. Elias Stable and an $850,000 colt bought by Barry Berkelhammer for Albaugh Family Stables.

The pipeline is loaded for Not This Time as his 2022 book of mares included the dams of Epicenter, Simplification, Grade 1 winner Forte and Grade 3 winner Just Cindy.

Idol, a son of two-time Horse of the Year Curlin out of the stakes-winning A.P. Indy mare Marion Ravenwood, is a full-brother to multiple Grade 1 winner Nest and he will stand his initial season at stud in the coming year.

A track-record setter at three and a Grade 1 winner the following year, Idol demonstrated an impressive turn of foot in winning the Santa Anita Handicap. He defeated a contentious field in the historic race, recording a career-best Beyer Speed Figure of 102 and leaving in his wake Grade 1 winners Express Train and the previously unbeaten Maxfield.

Knicks Go: champion performer will again stand for $30,000

Knicks Go, Horse of the Year, Champion Older Male and Longines World's Best Racehorse of 2021, will stand his second season at stud for $30,000. A gate-to-wire winner of the $6 million Breeders' Cup Classic - just two clicks off the 18-year-old track record set by Candy Ride - Knicks Go recorded a 112 Beyer in the scintillating score - the fastest Beyer of the 2021 Breeders Cup.

A two-time track record-setter and a Grade 1 winner at two, four, and five, Knicks Go banked over $9.2 million in his sensational racing career. He is the fastest miler in Keeneland history, winning the 2020 Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile in the new track record time of 1:33.85, and is one of just six horses to win two different Breeders' Cup races.

He was an effortless winner of the historic Whitney Stakes at Saratoga, winning by four and a half lengths and earning a 111 Beyer. Knicks Go was also precocious, winning the Breeders' Futurity at Keeneland at two and second in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Churchill Downs en route to career earnings of $9,258,135.

Tacitus, a multiple Graded winner and a son of perennial leading sire Tapit out of champion older female and five-time Grade 1 winner Close Hatches, will stand for $10,000, the same fee he stood for during his first season at stud a year ago.

The Juddmonte Farms homebred won or placed in ten Graded races, including five Grade 1s and two Classics. He won the South Tampa Bay Derby on his three-year-old debut, setting a new stakes record of 1:41.90 for 1 1/16 miles, just 0.15 off the track record.

He proved much the best in the Wood Memorial Stakes and was a dominant winner of the Suburban Stakes as a four-year-old. He also finished third in the Kentucky Derby and was runner-up in the Belmont Stakes, as well as the Travers Stakes at three and recorded six triple-digit Beyers during his spectacular career, including a lifetime best 104 in the 2020 Breeders' Cup Classic.

Instagrand, a dominating son of champion sire Into Mischief and a $1.2 million Gulfstream acquisition at Fasig-Tipton's Florida Select 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale, will stand for $7,500.

Instagrand welcomed his first foals in 2022 and his initial book of mares included Breeders' Cup Distaff champion Blue Prize, Grade 1 winner and five-time stakes winner Concrete Rose, as well as Graded winner and Grade 1-placed Brill and Indian Miss, dam of champion sprinter Mitole and Grade 1 winner Hot Rod Charlie.

A precocious juvenile, Instagrand led wire-to-wire to win the Best Pal Stakes at Del Mar by nearly 11 lengths in just his second lifetime start at two. He also placed in the Gotham Stakes and the Santa Anita Derby at three.

Like Instagrand, Instilled Regard also saw his first foals arrive this year, and he will stand the upcoming season for $7,500.

Instilled Regard's first book of mares included multiple Grade 1 winner Cambier Parc, four-time Grade 2 winner Beau Recall, stakes winner and Grade 1-placed Meadow Dance and Hung The Moon, dam of Grade 1-placed Brill.

During his racing career, Instilled Regard won the Manhattan Stakes, defeating six Graded winners, including Grade 1 scorers Sadler's Joy and Channel Maker . A four-time Graded victor on dirt and turf, Instilled Regard earned $983,240 during his racing career and he hails from a prolific family - his second dam is champion mare Heavenly Prize, the dam of Pure Prize.

Rowayton (right): Grade 1-placed juvenile and son of Into Mischief

Rowayton, a multiple Grade 1-placed juvenile by Into Mischief, returns for his second season at stud and will stand for $7,500.

A debut maiden special weight winner at Del Mar, Rowayton was runner-up in the Del Mar Futurity, earning a 90 Beyer, and also placed in the American Pharoah Stakes to subsequent champion two-year-old colt Game Winner.

At three, Rowayton won an allowance at Belmont Park in the near-track record time of 1:14.94 for 6 1/2 furlongs, earning a career-best 97 Beyer. He placed in the Dwyer Stakes behind multiple Grade 1 winner Code Of Honor and was just a neck shy of winning the H. Allen Jerkens Stakes at Saratoga, earning a 96 Beyer.

Rowayton is out of a half sister to Canadian champion Miss Mischief and descends from the family of Letruska and Proud Spell.

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