Second-season sire Not This Time leads Taylor Made roster at $45,000

Leading North American second-crop sire Not This Time leads Taylor Made Stallions' 2022 stallion roster with a $45,000 fee, the farm has announced.

Taylor Made will further bolster its roster next year with the arrival of four-time Grade 1 winner Knicks Go, the top-ranked horse on the National Thoroughbred Racing Association Thoroughbred Poll and favourite for the Breeders' Cup Classic at Del Mar.

Knicks Go, a five-year-old son of leading fifth-crop sire Paynter, won the Claiborne Breeders' Futurity at two, the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile at four and, so far this year, has added the Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes, Whitney Stakes, Prairie Meadows Cornhusker Stakes and Lukas Classic Stakes to his tally. A stud fee will be announced following the Classic.

Not This Time, a son of Giant's Causeway, is the leader of his sire class with ten black-type winners and 14 stakes performers this year. His progeny earnings have so far exceed $4 million.

In addition, he is the leading sire by percentage of black-type stakes winners in North America at 8.8 per cent for 2021; he is also the third-leading sire by number of three-year-old stakes winners in 2021, and the fourth-leading sire of three-year-old stakes winners this year.

The future looks bright for Not This Time when viewed through his Comparable Index, an earnings based index that indicates how good the mares he's been bred to are as producers. His 2021 CI for mares that produced foals is 3.11. According to BloodHorse's MarketWatch, in 2019 and 2020, only ten stallions in North America had a higher CI than Not This Time's 2021 book, and, of those, all but one will stand for six figures in the upcoming breeding season.

Not This Time was also the leading freshman sire of 2020 by number of winners (29) and co-leader by number of stakes winners (three) with Laoban. His top runner of 2020 was Grade 1 winner Princess Noor. This year he has sired Grade 2-placed, Grade 3 winner Easy Time and Grade 3 winner Yes This Time.

Instagrand and Instilled Regard will stand their second seasons at stud for $7,500.

Instagrand, a son of Into Mischief and a precocious $1.2m Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream Sale purchase, led gate to wire in winning the Best Pal Stakes by just over ten lengths at Del Mar on just his second lifetime start. Undefeated at two, he won his maiden special weight debut by ten lengths, clocking five furlongs in :56 flat, just .32 of a second off the Los Alamitos track record. He also placed in the Gotham Stakes and Santa Anita Derby at three.

Instilled Regard, a Grade 1 winner by prominent sire Arch and a $1,050,000 Ocala Breeders' Sales March 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale graduate, proved a determined winner of the Manhattan Stakes, defeating six Graded winners, including Sadler's Joy and Channel Maker. A four-time Graded winner on dirt and turf, Instilled Regard banked $983,240 in a stellar career. He hails from a prolific family - his second dam is champion mare Heavenly Prize, the dam of Pure Prize.

Freshman sire Midnight Storm, a brilliantly fast Grade 1-winning son of Pioneerof The Nile, will stand for $7,500 next year. He has sired seven winners so far and was represented by 11 six-figure horses during the two-year-olds in training sales, topped by a $550,000 colt out of the winning Indian Charlie mare Tasunke.

Mshawish, Medaglia D'Oro's only Grade 1 winner on dirt and turf and his fastest dirt miler, will stand the upcoming breeding season for $5,000. Mshawish has been represented this year by stakes winners around the world, including three-year-old Bellharbour Music, winner of the Prix Daphnis at Deauville, and Sainthood, winner of the Pennine Ridge Stakes at Belmont Park and second in the Jeff Ruby Steaks at Turfway Park.

In 2021, Mshawish has seven stakes performers (9.1 per cent) and is the co-leading second-crop sire by number of Graded stakes winners alongside Not This Time.

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