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Who’s Your Pick? Andrew Cary

As we approach the end of the calendar, we turn our attention to the incoming sire class of 2021. We asked several judges who their favorite incoming sire is for next year and if there are any other stallions, new or otherwise, that have caught their eye as under-the-radar picks.

ANDREW CARY, Cary Bloodstock

McKinzie (Street Sense), $30,000, Gainesway

This is a very strong group of incoming freshman sires and it’s very hard to just pick one, but I am a huge fan of McKinzie. I think had he retired in a “normal” year, he would have stood for more.

When he was at the top of his game in the summer of 2019, he was the best horse in the country. He was incredibly unlucky not to win the GI Met Mile (where he only got to run for about a sixteenth of a mile) and he galloped to a very easy win in the GI Whitney S. against a strong field and in fast time.

Any horse who can compete at the highest level from ages two through five and run first or second in 14 graded stakes has to be immensely respected.

In addition, he’s got the strong physical and pedigree that the market requires. Street Sense is a tremendous sire who still has plenty of years of production left, and his dam Runway Model (Petionville) was an elite runner herself. Bob Baffert was always very high on this horse from the moment he entered his shedrow. I think Gainesway did a great job pricing him where they did and my clients are breeding five mares to him.

Instagrand (Into Mischief), $7,500, Taylor Made

I think Instagrand is the potential home run horse of this whole crop, especially at his stud fee. He is a tremendous physical by the hottest sire on the planet, was a $1.2 million 2-year-old and flashed top level ability from the get go. He did train on as a 3-year-old to place in the GI Santa Anita Derby against the previous year’s champion 2-year-old Game Winner (Candy Ride {Arg}) and Roadster (Quality Road).

Unfortunately he never got to truly fulfill all of his potential on the racetrack, but his profile matches up with many top stallions who began their careers standing for under $15,000 (including his own sire Into Mischief, as well as Distorted Humor, Mr. Prospector, Danzig, War Front, etc).

I encourage people to go back and watch Instagrand’s first two races–his maiden win and the GII Best Pal S., both of which he won by over 10 lengths. They are jaw-dropping. Mr. Larry Best (leading buyer at Keeneland November Sale) has made a huge commitment to the horse and my clients will be supporting him strongly as well.

Thank you to the breeders and agents who have participated in our ongoing ‘Who’s Your Pick’ series this week. Did you miss a few responses? You can catch up on the entire series here.

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Stakes Winner Divine Park Brings $270,000 To Top Friday’s Keeneland November Sale Session

Steady trade continued during Friday's fifth session of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale in Lexington, Ky., led by the sale of stakes winner Divine Queen for $270,000 to Avout Bloodstock.

A 5-year-old daughter of Divine Park out of stakes winner Town Queen, by Williamstown, Divine Queen is a half-sister to Buffalo Trace Franklin County winner Queen's Award and to Hour Queen, dam of Hagyard Fayette (G2) winner The Player. She was consigned as a racing or broodmare prospect by Trackside Farm, agent.

On Friday, the final day of the Book 3 catalog, Keeneland sold 235 horses for $13,032,000, an average of $55,455 and a median of $42,000.

Through five sessions of the 10-day auction, 982 horses have sold for $128,701,000, for an average of $131,060 and a median of $75,000.

Gottahaveaholiday, a 6-year-old broodmare prospect by Harlan's Holiday whose Grade 1-winning half-sister, Dayoutoftheoffice, was second in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) Saturday at Keeneland, brought the day's second-highest price of $240,000 from Coteau Grove Farms/Cary Bloodstock, agent. Out of the winning Indian Charlie mare Gottahaveadream, Gottahaveaholiday is from the family of Grade 1 winners Here Comes Ben, Race the Wild Wind, Albertus Maximus and Daredevil. She was consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent.

Taylor Made was the session's leading consignor, selling 23 horses for $1.52 million.

The day's highest-priced weanling was a colt by Nyquist purchased by Sycamore for $225,000. Consigned by Mulholland Springs, agent, he is out of the El Corredor mare Senorita Corredora and is from the family of Grade 3 winners Dark Nile, Thatlookonyerface and Lou Brissie.

Sycamore acquired a total of five horses – all weanlings – Friday for $640,000 to lead buyers.

Morris Bloodstock Services, agent for Waldorf Farm, paid $200,000 for Storm Crossing, a 10-year-old daughter of Tiznow offered in foal to Munnings. She is the dam of stakes-placed Kansas Kis. Out of stakes winner Storm Alert, by Storm Cat, Storm Crossing is a half-sister to Grade 3 winner Utopian. She was consigned by Hunter Valley Farm, agent.

A weanling colt by Practical Joke out of the Rahy mare Miss Utada sold for $185,000 to Fish Stables. Consigned by Eaton Sales, agent, he is a half-brother to multiple Grade 2 winner Secret Gypsy and from the family of Group 1 winner Possessive Dancer and Group 3 winner Colmore Row.

Two horses sold for $180,000 each.

The first was a weanling colt by Speightstown sold to Rascal Bloodstock. Blue Heaven Farm consigned the colt, who is out of the winning Tapit mare Wild Ridge and from the family of Grade 3 winners Wild Gams and Cazadero.

Bluewater, agent, paid $180,000 for the Distorted Humor mare Acting Class, who is in foal to Bolt d'Oro. Out of the A.P. Indy mare Classicism, Acting Class is the dam of graded stakes-placed Classy Act. Hill 'n' Dales Sales Agency, agent, consigned the mare, who is from the family of champion Tempera, Canadian champion Rainbows for Life, Group 2 winner Colour Chart and Group 3 winner Equerry.

The November Sale continues Saturday and runs through Wednesday, Nov. 18 with all sessions beginning at 10 a.m. ET.

The entire sale is streamed live on Keeneland.com.

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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 Purchases Another Standardbred Stallion

Taylor Made Stallions has purchased the trotting stallion Pastor Stephen (Cantab Hall) and will stand the horse next year in Indiana, it was announced Tuesday.

The purchase marks the second time since 2018 that Taylor Made has made an investment in harness racing. In 2018, the Taylor operation was part of a deal to import New Zealand champion Lazarus. A pacer, he won two of six starts in the U.S. in 2018 and now stands at stud at Deo Volente Farms in New Jersey.

In its early days, Taylor Made was heavily invested in Standarbreds and its president, Duncan Taylor, has said the recent investments in Standarbreds has been a way to help return the operation to its family’s roots.

Pastor Stephen was the champion 2-year-old trotting colt in 2010 when winning six of 11 starts and earning $653,748. He went four for 11 during his 3-year-old campaign before retiring due to an injury. He was later sent to Sweden to stand at stud.

According to the press release announcing Pastor Stephen’s purchase, he was bought for an undisclosed sum.

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