Not This Time will be well represented at Fasig-Tipton's The Saratoga Sale, Aug. 5-6, in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The boutique sale will feature 13 offerings by the great son of Giant's Causeway, with two standing out.
Hip 11 is a half sister to the late Louisiana-bred phenom Ova Charged, and Hip 209 is a half sister to grade 2 winner Red Carpet Ready; both yearlings are by Taylor Made Stallions' Not This Time.
Although a soft tissue injury ended his racing career, Not This Time has made up for that tremendously as a sire. He finished among the top 10 general sires of 2023, and through Aug. 2, he has sired six grade 1 winners and 16 graded stakes winners. He has proved his versatility as a sire, getting winners over a variety of distances on all surfaces.
Not This Time's most recent winners include record-setting Cogburn , course record-setting winner of the Jaipur Stakes (G1T) at Saratoga Race Course; Next, winner of the marathon Brooklyn Stakes (G2); and Arzak, winner of the Shakertown Stakes (G2T) and a game second to Cogburn in the Jaipur. The latter was a last-out third in the July 20 Wolf Hill Stakes at Monmouth Park.
"One of his best attributes is he can get you the fastest turf sprinter in the country, and get you the best distance horse in the country too. His versatility comes through on the physicals too, you see different types which is great," said Marshall Taylor.
Hip 11, the aforementioned half-sister to Ova Charged, sells Aug. 5 for Taylor Made Sales Agency. Ova Charged was a graded stakes winner who won 15 races but tragically broke down in her 19th career start when competing in the Kentucky Downs Preview Mint Ladies Turf Sprint Aug. 3 at Ellis Park. She was humanely euthanized.
Hip 11 was bred by Evelyn Benoit's Brittlyn Stables. The bay filly is out of the stakes-winning Dehere mare Charged Cotton, the dam of six winners from seven foals to race. The Not This Time yearling is also a half sister to Manama Gold, winner of the UAE Oaks (G3). Manama Gold is by Star Guitar , making her a full sister to Ova Charged. Charged Cotton is also the dam of stakes-placed Sethamee Street (Street Sense ).
Taylor said it is exciting to have a filly related to these graded/group winners.
"It's worked great with Star Guitar, I can't wait to see what it does with Not This Time," said Taylor.
Hip 209, the half sister to Oscar Performance 's 4-year-old filly Red Carpet Ready, will sell Aug. 6 during the second session of the boutique sale. The bay yearling filly will be consigned by Mill Ridge Sales, the same banner that sold Red Carpet Ready at this sale for $180,000 in 2021.
Hip 209 was bred in Kentucky by Maggie Gieseke. She is out of the Street Sense mare Wild Silk. Wild Silk is a half sister to 2016 Vosburgh Stakes (G1) winner Joking (Distorted Humor). Hip 209 also hails from the immediate family of multiple graded stakes winner Fed Biz.
"She (Red Carpet Ready) was awesome. She wasn't very big, but had a nice, straight hind leg, and a lovely move about her," remembered Mill Ridge's Price Bell Jr.
"It's hard sometimes to get horses to stand out. We try to bring horses up here that we believe in and that we want end users to see, I think she ended up being vetted nine or 12 times," he said.
Red Carpet Ready has been on the board in eight of her 10 career starts. She finished a game second in her turf debut Saturday in the Kentucky Downs Preview Mint Ladies Turf Sprint. Red Carpet Ready's trainer, Rusty Arnold, has mentioned the $1.5 million Kentucky Downs Ladies Turf Sprint (G2T) Aug. 31 or the $350,000 Thoroughbred Club of America Stakes (G2) on dirt Oct. 5 at Keeneland as potential future targets.
The Saratoga Sale kicks off Aug. 5 at 6:30 p.m. ET in the Humphrey S. Finney Pavilion.
"There's good traffic, it's felt good. The energy here feels great on the sales grounds. New York racing has been really good; Kentucky racing has been really good. I'm hopeful; we all have been relieved by the year and the progress we're all making," said Bell.
