A colt by Not This Time was knocked down for $1.6 million a little less than two hours into the first session of Book 1 of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale Sept. 8.
Windancer Farms acquired the colt (Hip 66), a half brother to multiple graded stakes-placed Jace's Road.
Consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, the big bay was bred by Richard Santulli's Colts Neck Stables.
"He's a nice colt. Taylor Made does a good job," Santulli said. "We weren't expecting $1.6. This market is crazy."
Colts Neck brought 30 homebred yearlings in total to Keeneland September. Santulli, who races his homebreds in addition to selling at auctions, campaigned the colt's dam, the Silver Deputy mare Out Post. The mare has produced three winners, with Jace's Road being her best runner to date. The son of Quality Road sold for $510,000 at the 2021 Keeneland September sale and captured the 2022 Gun Runner Stakes at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots as a 2-year-old. He returned as a sophomore to place third in the 2023 Louisiana Derby (G2) and competed in that year's Kentucky Derby (G1).
"We still have the mare. It's a good family tracing back to Silverbulletday," Santulli said.
Taylor Made stallion Not This Time is enjoying his best year at stud yet and is sitting second on the leading sires list through Sept. 7. The son of Giant's Causeway notched his first grade 1 winner of the year Sept. 6 when Troubleshooting landed the Franklin-Simpson Stakes (G1T) at Kentucky Downs.
