Taylor Made Stallions has set its 2024 stallion roster and fees for the upcoming breeding season headed by Not This Time , who will stand for $150,000, and Knicks Go , who will stand for $15,000.
Not This Time, sire of 2022 champion 3-year-old male Epicenter , was the runaway leading third-crop sire in 2022 and a top 10 general sire last year. The prolific stallion continues to stand tall on the leading sires list. Not This Time is currently eighth on the general sires list this year with more than $10.4 million in progeny earnings. Not This Time boasts 12 black-type winners and 21 stakes horses this year, led by multiple grade 1 winner and a candidate for Horse of the Year honors Up to the Mark ($1,747,650), and grade 1 winner Sibelius , winner of the $2 million Dubai Golden Shaheen (G1).
A leading contender for the Nov. 4 Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1T), Up to the Mark registered a thrilling victory over Master of The Seas in the $1 million Turf Mile (G1T) at Keeneland Oct. 7, marking the third consecutive grade 1 win for the 4-year-old colt. Owned by Repole Stable and St. Elias Stable, Up to the Mark also won the Manhattan Stakes (G1T) at Belmont Park and the Turf Classic Stakes (G1T) at Churchill Downs. His grade 1 wins have been achieved at three different distances and tracks.
Sibelius earned the initial grade 1 win of his career at Meydan when he rode the rail to win the Dubai Golden Shaheen over the previous year’s Golden Shaheen winner Switzerland. Prior to his victory in Dubai, Sibelius set a stakes record in winning the Pelican Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs earlier this year, when he ran six furlongs in 1:08.75.
Not This Time’s additional graded stakes winners this year include Next , winner of the Brooklyn Stakes (G2) and the Greenwood Cup Stakes (G3) and a winner in five of his past six outings—all stakes; Arzak , winner of the Woodford Stakes (G2T); Gigante , winner of the Secretariat Stakes (G2T); and Troy Stakes (G3T) winner Cogburn .
In the auction ring, Not This Time’s yearlings have yielded big-time results, commanding prices of $1,350,000, $1,050,000, $900,000, $725,000, etc. His 2-year-olds this year have sold for up to $500,000.
Knicks Go
Knicks Go, the 2021 Horse of the Year and champion older dirt male, welcomed his first foals in 2023. A wire-to-wire winner of the 2021 $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) at Del Mar—he finished just two clicks off the 18-year-old track record.
A two-time track record-setter and a grade 1 winner at 2, 4, and 5, Knicks Go amassed earnings of more than $9.2 million in a sensational racing career. He is the fastest miler in Keeneland history, winning the 2020 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1) in the track record time of 1:33.85. He is also one of just six horses to win two different Breeders’ Cup races. Knicks Go was also precocious, winning the Breeders’ Futurity (G1) at Keeneland as a juvenile.
Idol , winner of the 2021 Santa Anita Handicap (G1), stood his first season at Taylor Made in 2023. A full brother to multiple grade 1 winner and 2022 champion 3-year-old filly Nest ($2,172,675) and a half brother to Lost Ark, winner of the $500,000 Jockey Club Derby Invitational Stakes, Idol is a son of two-time Horse of the Year Curlin out of the stakes-winning A.P. Indy mare Marion Ravenwood.
Tacitus , a multiple graded stakes winner and earner of more than $3.7 million and a son of perennial leading sire Tapit out of champion older female and five-time grade 1 winner Close Hatches, stood his first season at stud in 2022.
The Juddmonte homebred won or placed in 10 graded stakes, including six grade 1s and two classics. He won the Tampa Bay Derby (G2) in his 3-year-old debut, setting a stakes record of 1:41.90 for 1 1/16 miles. He then took the Wood Memorial Stakes (G2) and was later a dominant winner of the Suburban Stakes (G2) as a 4-year-old. He finished third in the Kentucky Derby (G1) and was runner-up in the Belmont Stakes (G1), as well as the Travers Stakes (G1) at 3.
Instagrand
Instagrand , a son of champion sire Into Mischief and a $1.2 million Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream Sale graduate, will have his first 2-year-olds in 2024. Instagrand’s first yearlings have proved popular at public auction this year, selling for $350,000, $200,000, $125,000, $105,000, $100,000, etc. His first-crop weanlings in 2022 sold for up to $300,000.
A precocious juvenile, Instagrand registered a front-running victory in the Best Pal Stakes (G2) at Del Mar by 10 1/4 lengths in just his second start at 2.
Instilled Regard also has first yearlings in 2023, and they brought up to $130,000 at Keeneland September. Winner of the $400,000 Manhattan Stakes, Instilled Regard was a four-time graded stakes winner on dirt and turf, earning $983,240 during his racing career. A royally bred son of Arch and a $1,050,000 Ocala Breeders’ Sale March Sale graduate, Instilled Regard hails from a prolific Phipps family—his second dam is champion Heavenly Prize.
Rowayton , a multiple grade 1-placed juvenile by Into Mischief, will have his first 2-year-olds in 2024. He was represented by first yearlings this year, including a $110,000 colt at Keeneland September.
Rowayton is out of a half sister to two-time Canadian champion Miss Mischief and descends from a family of champions, including Letruska and Proud Spell .
The 2024 roster of stallions and fees for Taylor Made Stallions are as follows:
| Taylor Made Stallions 2024 Stud Fees | ||
| Stallion | 2024 Fee | 2023 Fee |
| Not This Time | $150,000 | $135,000 |
| Knicks Go | $15,000 | $15,000 |
| Idol | $10,000 | $10,000 |
| Tacitus | $10,000 | $10,000 |
| Instagrand | $7,500 | $7,500 |
| Instilled Regard | $7,500 | $7,500 |
| Rowayton | $7,500 | $7,500 |
This press release has been edited for content and style by BloodHorse Staff.
