A Rare Opportunity Awaits To Buy A Share In Not This Time

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The night of Oct. 29 is something everybody at the Taylor Made team is looking forward to. That's what happens when you are the consignor who will be selling a share in Not This Time at the Keeneland Championship Sale. After starting his stud career at $15,000, Not This Time now stands at Taylor Made for $250,000 and his book is already basically full for 2026, according to the farm.

It's easy to see why. He had 14 horses sell for $1 million or more at the Keeneland September sale, leading all sires at that mark.  He's the No. 1 sire of graded stakes winners from this year's 3-year-old crop; he's the No. 1 sire of 2-Year-Old winners by earnings, the No. 1 sire of Black Type winners, and the number 2 general sire, behind only Into Mischief.

The share is being offered by Aaron and Marie Jones LLC.

Travis White, a Vice President at Taylor Made, will be among those handling the sale. The TDN's Bill Finley sat down with White a little less than a week before the sale.

 

TDN: The chance to buy a share in a very valuable sire at auction is not something you see every day of the week. What kind of opportunity is this for someone?

TW: It's a very unique opportunity to buy into one of the best up-and-coming stallions in the world and one of the most valuable syndicated stallions in the world. A lot of these big stallions are not syndicated. Coolmore and Spendthrift have a lot of great stallions and none of them are syndicated. Another main factor with the share is that you will have access to the horse. This year, he's basically booked full at $250,000. We've had way more mares submitted than what we can take, so this gives them access to the horse. Plus, they'll get the excess income that comes along with it. This share also comes with all the revenue from the 2025 breeding season, which we project to be equivalent to almost three stud fees.

 

TDN: I know it is hard to predict what something like this might sell for, but do you have a figure in the back of your mind?

TW: Not really, and it is hard to predict.

 

TDN: This is a stallion that Taylor Made took a chance on. He never won a Grade I race and did not race after his 2-year-old season. What did your team see in him to make it believe this was a sire worth investing in?

TW: We were very familiar with the horse because he was born and raised at Taylor Made. Duncan Taylor was the person in our organization that really pushed to get this done. He gets most of the credit. We knew he was a nice horse, was well-bred and was a very good-looking horse. We thought he would work for our clientele, but trying to forecast what has happened would have been impossible.

 

TDN: His stud fee is now $250,000. How did he get there?

TW: He started off at $15,000 and remained there for the first four years. When his first crop of 2-year-olds performed well, the stud fee jumped to $40,000. That crop is currently 3-year-olds, and his crop of 2-year-olds were bred off a $45,000 stud fee. The yearlings that sold this year are off of a $135,000 stud fee and that's his first six-figure crop that came after the big bump in his stud fee. The weanlings were covered off a $150,000 stud fee and the mares who are now pregnant were bred from a fee of $175,000. His fee for the upcoming breeding season is $250,000. Every year, the quality of the mares and the comparative index has skyrocketed from the $15,000 stud fee to where it is now.

 

TDN: Now that he's standing for far more than he did at the start, you're going to see better and better bred mares sent to him when compared to his first few crops. Being bred to better mares, can Not Your Time actually do better in the future?

TW: As the quality of mares has increased, hopefully the production on the racetrack and sales ring will, too. Though it's hard to imagine they can run any better than they are now. I do believe with his versatility and success on the turf, he could really become a true international sire in the next couple of years.

 

TDN: Ten sons or daughters of Not This Time have been pre-entered for the Breeders' Cup. How they perform will obviously have an affect on his value and the value of the share that is being sold. Which of his progeny are you most looking forward to seeing run in the Breeders' Cup?

TW: Goal Oriented is a very talented dirt horse who could step up in the Dirt Mile, but it is a really competitive race. We are very high on Black Out Time, who will be running in the Juvenile. I know that Kenny McPeek has liked him from day one and I think he will perform very well. We have several 2-year-olds in the turf races. It's hard to handicap those races because you don't know how good the Europeans are, but Schwarzenegger and Cy Fair in the Juvenile Turf Sprint and are horses we've been following closely. We're hopeful that he has a massive weekend, but we know these are tough races to win. It's exciting that he has gotten that many horses running in the Breeders' Cup spread across a lot of races. That's a good sign of what's to come from this horse.

 

TDN: You were obviously at Keeneland when 14 of his yearlings sold for $1 million or more. What was it like watching that?

TW: I have never seen anything like that before and I've been at Taylor Made for 17 years now. Unbridled's Song was a very successful sire for us, but it was nothing like this. The seven-figure horses, it was one after another. I was glad to see the breeders doing so well with the horse. They've been supportive from day one.

 

TDN: Do you know if the 14 million-plus horses was a record at a single sale? There are seven horses by Not Your Time running in Saturday's GIII Bryan Station S. at Keeneland. Is that a record?

TW: I don't know the answer to those questions off the top of my head. We are trying to research it. Whether that's a record or not, this has been unbelievable. He's a once-in-a-lifetime kind of horse for us. We are very lucky and fortunate and, knock on wood, he'll continue to do well for everyone involved for many years to come, whether it's shareholders, breeders, owners, yearling buyers. We want everybody to be successful.

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