October, 2020 | Horse Racing Free Tips

Not This Time Goes to $40K at Taylor Made

Not This Time (Giant’s Causeway), whose record-setting, undefeated daughter Princess Noor is a leading candidate for the GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, will stand the 2021 breeding season for a fee of $40,000 at Taylor Made, the farm announced Thursday. He commanded an advertised fee of $12,500 in 2020. Most of the nursery’s other stallions will stand for reduced fees next year.

‘TDN Rising Star’ Princess Noor is one of 14 first-crop winners for Not This Time and has run the table in her three career starts to date, posting unextended victories in the GI Del Mar Debutante going seven furlongs and when trying two turns for the first time in the GII Chandelier S. A $135,000 Keeneland September yearling purchase, Princess Noor sold for $1.35 million at this year’s OBS Spring Sale, the highest amount ever paid for the progeny of a first-crop stallion. According to TDN Sales Statistics, Not This Time was the leading freshman sire of 2-year-olds in training by average ($175,216 for 37 sold). Some 13 of Not This Time’s second-crop yearlings sold in excess of $200,000 this year, topped by a son of Belle’s Finale (Ghostzapper) that realized $450,000 from Jacob West for Repole Stable and St. Elias Stable at Keeneland September.

Not This Time is also represented by the stakes-winning Dirty Dangle on turf and an additional pair of stakes horses, including GIII Schuylerville S. third Hopeful Princess.

‘TDN Rising Star’ Instagrand (Into Mischief) is new to the Taylor Made roster and enters stud at $7,500. Midnight Storm (Pioneerof the Nile) and Mshawish (Medaglia d’Oro) have been reduced from $10,000 to $7,500, while Chilean import Daddy Long Legs (Scat Daddy) will command a fee of $5,000.

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Taylor Made Stallions Announces 2021 Stallion Roster, Reduced Fees

Taylor Made Stallions has set its 2021 stallion roster and has reduced fees on most of the stallions for the upcoming breeding season.

The roster is led by Not This Time, a leading first-crop sire in multiple categories, who will stand for $40,000 S&N. Joining Not This Time on the roster are Instagrand (new in 2021), Mshawish, and Midnight Storm, who will all stand for $7,500 S&N—Mshawish and Midnight Storm both stood for $10,000 this past breeding season. Rounding out the roster is Daddy Long Legs who will stand for $5,000 S&N after standing last season for $7,500.

Not This Time's offspring have starred in the auction ring and on the racetrack. He was the No. 1 First-Crop Sire by 2-year-old average: $175,216; led by Princess Noor who sold for $1.35 million to top the OBS Spring Sale. It was the highest price ever for a 2-year-old by a freshman sire at OBS. Not This Time's second-crop yearlings this year have included 13 that sold for $200,000 or more with two session toppers at Keeneland September and a $225,000 sale-topping filly this week at OBS October.

It is no surprise that Not This Time's first 2-year-olds have come out running. He is represented by a crop-best 14 winners, including unbeaten and untested Grade 1 winner Princess Noor, a leading contender for the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies.

Princess Noor was a breathtaking 6 1/2-length winner of the Grade 1 Del Mar Debutante Stakes Sept. 6, and an equally impressive winner of the G2 Chandelier Stakes at Santa Anita in her next outing on Sept. 26 for owner Zedan Racing Stables and trainer Bob Baffert. She announced her arrival in the division being named a TDN Rising Star with an eye-catching score in a Del Mar maiden special weight in her career debut Aug. 22.

Not This Time is also represented by undefeated stakes winner Dirty Dangle, winner of the Woodbine Cares Stakes on Sept. 19, and Graded stakes-placed Hopeful Princess, third in the G3 Schuylerville Stakes at Saratoga.

On the racetrack, Not This Time was a dominating winner of the 2016 G3 Iroquois Stakes and was runner-up in that year's Breeders' Cup Juvenile. Not This Time is the most brilliant 2-year-old ever sired by sire of sires Giant's Causeway and he is a half-brother to Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile winner Liam's Map.

New for 2021 is Instagrand, a graded stakes-winning son of leading sire Into Mischief. A $1.2-million purchase at the 2018 Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream Sale, Instagrand made an auspicious career debut, earning TDN Rising Star status with a jaw-dropping 10-length romp at Los Alamitos for trainer Jerry Hollendorfer. His final time of :56 for the five furlongs was just .32 of a second off the track record.

He followed up his sparkling debut win with another scintillating effort in his next start, winning Del Mar's G2 Best Pal Stakes by 10 1/4 lengths in wire-to-wire fashion. Nearly identical to his debut score, Instagrand assumed command at the break of the six-furlong test and powered away impressively through the lane to win as he pleased without ever being challenged.

Mshawish, Medaglia d'Oro's only Grade 1 winner on dirt and turf and his fastest dirt miler, is represented by seven first-crop winners. Among them, Arabian Prince, a debut maiden special weight winner at Churchill Downs; Miss Wild, a debut winner at Monmouth Park by 15 lengths, and additional maiden special weight winners Hitch a Ride and Franz Josef.

Daddy Long Legs, a champion first-crop sire in Chile, is a multiple graded stakes-winning millionaire by Scat Daddy. Numbered among his eight first-crop stakes horses was 2-year-old champion colt Fallen From Heaven, a Grade 1 winner on dirt and a Grade 2 winner on turf. Daddy Long Legs was a multiple graded stakes winner on multiple surfaces.

Midnight Storm, a brilliantly fast Grade 1 winner by Pioneerof the Nile, was a seven-time graded stakes winner who earned $1,783,110 in a stellar racing career. He was the No. 1 freshman sire by yearling average for stallions standing under $20,000, and he saw first yearlings sell this year for $200,000 to Maverick Racing, $185,000 to Nicoma Bloodstock, and $180,000 to Woodford Thoroughbreds. He will have first-crop 2-year-olds in 2021.

The 2021 roster of stallions and fees for Taylor Made Stallions are as follows:

Stallion	S&N Fee
Not This Time	$40,000
Daddy Long Legs	$5,000
Instagrand-New	$7,500
Midnight Storm	$7,500
Mshawish	$7,500

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Australia: The World’s Best Turf Sprinters Ready For The Everest

In my new role as announcer at Los Alamitos Race Course, I marvel at the raw speed of Quarter Horses. The Thoroughbred equivalent will be on display at Randwick this Friday night, as Australia's elite sprinters contest the fourth running of The Everest. The world's richest turf race carries a purse of AU$15 million (US$10.8 million) and is part of a recently introduced Pick 7 wager that can be played for just 20c per combination and has a $10,000 pool guarantee this Friday night.

Although the two-mile Melbourne Cup is the nation's most famous race, Australia's forté is actually producing the world's best turf sprinters. While American fans are dubious of anything unproven on U.S. soil, the Breeders' Cup is poorly timed from the standpoint of Australia's rich “Spring Carnival.” However, Aussie sprinters have succeeded in other global arenas such as Royal Ascot, Dubai and Hong Kong. The Everest, at six furlongs, is framed around the concept of slot holders seeking deals with connections of the best available horses. In a flashy display of innovation and savvy marketing, the race that sports the name of the world's highest peak had its post position draw conducted on the glass-bottomed Sky Deck at the top of Sydney Tower (which dwarfs Seattle's Space Needle but is slightly smaller than America's tallest observation tower, the Stratosphere in Las Vegas).

Just as the Sydney Tower has a revolving restaurant, the race itself revolves around Nature Strip (7-2 equal favorite). Recently crowned Australian Horse of the Year for a trio of Group 1 wins in 2019/20, Nature Strip is currently tied for sixth in the Longines World's Best Racehorse rankings (with Almond Eye, Authentic, and Enable). However, Nature Strip's stock has slumped with two losses to begin his 6-year-old season.

As short as 3-2 in Future Book wagering for The Everest a month ago, the gelding exited his most recent defeat with mucus in his trachea. That followed his well publicized dumping of jockey James McDonald at the start of a training race, requiring a subsequent trial to the stewards' satisfaction. Nature Strip retains the confidence of both McDonald, who declares his coat “is definitely looking a bit better,” and trainer Chris Waller, whose vet is “very happy with his blood levels.”

Post positions are potentially important, as the best trip could well decide the outcome among so many top-caliber sprinters. Fortune has smiled upon Nature Strip, Classique Legend (7-2 equal favorite) and Gytrash (6-1), who have drawn adjacent gates in the middle of the field. However, the task of brilliant last-start winner Libertini (8-1) was complicated when the mare drew the extreme outside. Classique Legend was an untapped talent when an unlucky sixth in The Everest last year. More recently, the gray unleashed an electrifying burst to win off a layoff, then was trapped wide without cover when a creditable second.

Classique Legend is conditioned by 82-year-old Les Bridge, who hopes to cap a Melbourne Cup-winning career with a victory by what he considers the best horse he's trained. Adelaide-based Gytrash (pronounced gee-trah) has a 92-year-old part-owner named Valerie Gordon, who has been a racing fan for 84 years. Valerie would spend her share of one of the world's biggest purses “getting the house painted and getting a new bed … and I might get another horse.” Gytrash has been Australia's most consistent topline sprinter of the past twelve months, and won his prep race for The Everest at first asking the reverse way of going (right-handed).

Next in the betting is a massive equine specimen sporting an appropriate name. Behemoth (9-1) is one of horse racing's all-time bargain buys: the winner of $1.6 million was purchased as a yearling for a paltry $6,000. (Incongruously, he cost $120,000 a year earlier as a weanling!) Behemoth has won consecutive Group 1s in Melbourne at seven furlongs, but was unplaced in his only two Sydney races in the opposite (clockwise) direction.

In Behemoth's case, an inside gate (2) might not make for the most comfortable transit, and the distance cutback to six furlongs perhaps makes him worth risking when framing Pick-7 tickets. At longer odds, Trekking (16-1) holds appeal: the Godolphin sprinter, who finished third in this race last year, might appreciate being kept a bit fresher leading into the 2020 renewal … and would certainly be an aptly named winner of The Everest.

Here is a suggested ticket for the 20c Pick-7, which spans the final seven races on Friday's card:

Race 4 – # 1, 9

Race 5 – # 1, 5, 14

Race 6 – # 1, 4

Race 7 – # 1, 2, 3, 7

Race 8 – # 2

Race 9 – # 2, 3, 7, 10

Race 10 – # 1, 6

Total cost: $76.80

The Pick 7 wager is available via all major ADW platforms such as TVG, TwinSpires, Xpressbet, NYRABets, WatchandWager, HPIbet, AmWager, and BetAmerica. The Randwick card will be broadcast live on TVG this Friday night with live crosses to Sky Racing World's Jason Witham trackside (First Post: 9:30 p.m. ET / 6:30 p.m. PT) . All races will also be live-streamed in HD with past performances available for free at skyracingworld.com and major ADW platforms.

A native of Brisbane, Australia, Michael Wrona has called races in six countries. Michael's vast U.S. experience includes; race calling at Los Alamitos, Hollywood Park, Arlington and Santa Anita, calling the 2000 Preakness on a national radio network and the 2016 Breeders' Cup on the International simulcast network. Michael also performed a race call voiceover for a Seinfeld episode called The Subway.

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