Not This Time tops Taylor Made's 2025 roster at increased fee of $175,000

Taylor Made Stallions has set its 2025 stallion roster and fees for the upcoming breeding season headed by Not This Time, who will stand for $175,000.

Not This Time, who stood for $150,000 this year, continues to prove one of the most sought-after stallions in the industry. He has enjoyed another banner year, with standout performers on the racetrack and booming sales results in the auction ring. 

Not This Time is the sire of arguably two of the best horses in training in 2024 in Grade 1 winner and North American record setter Cogburn and multiple Graded stakes winner Next, the most dominant dirt horse this season.

Not This Time ranks second among Kentucky sires by percentage of stakes horses at 15 per cent; he is the third-ranked sire by stakes horses with 31; and is tied for fourth by Graded stakes winners with seven. The pipeline is deep, as Not This Time is also a leading sire of two-year-olds this year. He ranks fifth overall and is top among all stallions with nine two-year-old stakes horses, and tied for first with two juvenile Graded stakes winners.

In the sale ring, Not This Time had four yearlings sell for a million dollars or more in 2024, including the $3.4 million sale-topper at Fasig-Tipton's Saratoga Sale, the second-highest-priced yearling in North America this year. The other three million-dollar yearlings were all sold at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale. 

Early Voting: Preakness Stakes-winning son of Gun Runner will stand for $12,500 in 2025Credit: Taylor Made Stallions

Early Voting, winner of the 2022 Preakness Stakes and a son of leading stallion and 2017 Horse of the Year Gun Runner, stood his second season at stud and first at Taylor Made in 2024. 

In his initial season at Taylor Made, Early Voting, who is out of a half-sister to Speightstown, had an in-foal rate of nearly 90 per cent. At the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Fall Mixed Sale, a weanling filly from his first crop sold for $150,000 to Mandalay Stables. He will be available for $12,500 in 2025.

Knicks Go, 2021 Horse of the Year and champion older dirt male, was represented by his first yearlings in 2024. A dual track record-setter and Grade 1 winner at two, four, and five, Knicks Go was a wire-to-wire winner of the 2021 Breeders' Cup Classic at Del Mar. The first yearlings by Knicks Go proved popular in the auction ring and include a $425,000 colt bought by CHC/Maverick Racing/Siena Farm at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale.

Knicks Go stood for $15,000 this year but his 2025 fee is to be determined.

Instilled Regard, a royally bred son of Arch and a $1.05m 2017 Ocala Breeders' Sales March Sale of Two-Year-Olds in Training graduate, was a four-time Graded stakes winner on dirt and turf. 

Winner of the 2020 Manhattan Stakes, Instilled Regard hails from a prolific Phipps family – his second dam is 1994 champion three-year-old filly Heavenly Prize. Instilled Regard's first two-year-olds include Minaret Station, who was an impressive winner of Keeneland's Bourbon Stakes, a Breeders' Cup Challenge Series event for the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf.

Instilled Regard is up to $10,000 for 2025, from $7.500 this year.

Instagrand, a son of leading sire Into Mischief and a $1.2m 2018 Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream Sale graduate, is also represented by his first two-year-olds. Instagrand already has 11 winners worldwide from his first crop, including Keewaydin, an impressive maiden special weight winner at Aqueduct, earning a 90 Beyer Speed Figure. Instagrand is also the sire of stakes-placed juveniles Mischievous Bria and Superwolf.

Like Instilled Regard, his fee is $10,000 next year, up from $7,500.

Tacitus: multiple Graded winner has his first yearlings sellCredit: GROSSICK RACING

Discounted seasons will be available for both Instilled Regard and Instagrand for mares seven years and younger and for other approved mares based on pedigree.

Tacitus, a multiple Graded stakes winner and earner of more than $4.2m, is a son of Tapit out of 2014 champion older female and five-time Grade 1 winner Close Hatches. 

The Juddmonte homebred won or placed in ten Graded stakes, including six Grade 1s and two Classics. A full-brother to 2024 Graded stakes winners Batten Down and Scylla, Tacitus is the leading first-crop sire of sale yearlings among stallions standing for under $30,000; his first yearlings have commanded up to $300,000. He remains at $10,000.

Dr Schivel, a Grade 1 winner at two and three by Violence, had first foals in 2025. Winner of the 2020 Del Mar Futurity at two and the Bing Crosby Stakes at three against older horses, Dr Schivel was also a close runner-up in the 2021 Breeders' Cup Sprint at Del Mar. He is priced at $10,000 for 2025, down from $12,500 this year.

Idol, winner of the 2021 Santa Anita Handicap, stood his first season at Taylor Made in 2023. A full-brother to multiple Grade 1 winner Nest, Idol is a son of dual Horse of the Year and top sire Curlin out of the stakes-winning A.P. Indy mare Marion Ravenwood. His fee has been reduced to $7,500 from $10,000.

Rowayton, a multiple Grade 1-placed juvenile by Into Mischief, has his first two-year-olds this year. He has been represented by stakes-placed Roxton, a maiden special weight winner at Parx and third in the Sapling Stakes at Monmouth Park. He is available at just $2,500 next year, having stood for $7,500 in 2024.

Angel Of Empire will stand his first season at stud in 2025. Winner of the 2023 Arkansas Derby just like his sire Classic Empire – the 2016 champion two-year-old male – Angel Of Empire also won the 2023 Risen Star Stakes and finished a rallying third as the race favourite in the 2023 Kentucky Derby for owner Albaugh Family Stables and trainer Brad Cox. 

Angel Of Empire hit the board in seven of his nine starts, with a bankroll of $1,489,375. He is introduced to breeders at $7,500.

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