Not This Time Tops Taylor Made Roster With $250,000 Fee

Taylor Made Stallions has set its 2026 stallion roster and fees for the upcoming breeding season headed by Not This Time, who will stand for $250,000 stands and nurses. The sire of nine grade 1 winners, Not This Time is having a landmark year. He is enjoying an unprecedented season with his progeny dominating on the racetrack and delivering impressive results in the auction ring. Not This Time is the leading North American sire year to date by number black-type winners with 22 through Oct. 14 and the second-leading general sire with more than $19 million in progeny earnings. He is leading the sire standings with his 2-year-olds in nearly every key category and is third-leading sire of 3-year-olds as well—with crops bred on $45,000 and $40,000 stud fees, respectively. In the auction ring this year, Not This Time was the leading sire by number of seven-figure yearlings at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale, with his top yearling selling for $2 million. The son of Giant's Causeway had 17 million-dollar yearlings so far this year—from a crop bred off his first six-figure stud fee. Not This Time's loaded Breeders' Cup World Championships roster includes a trio of Breeders' Cup Challenge Series qualifiers at the Keeneland fall meet. Rhetorical won the Turf Mile Stakes (G1T); Imaginationthelady captured the Jessamine Stakes (G2T); and Final Score triumphed in the Bourbon Stakes (G2T). Additional graded winners for Not This Time this year include his chief earner Troubleshooting ($1,364,382), winner of the Franklin-Simpson Stakes (G1T) at Kentucky Downs in September; Magnitude, winner of the Risen Star Stakes (G2) at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots; undefeated 3-year-old Disco Time, winner of the Lecomte Stakes (G3) and the St. Louis Derby and targeting either the Fayette Stakes (G3) at Keeneland or the Clark Stakes (G2) at Churchill Downs; and multiple grade 1-placed Goal Oriented, who is pointing toward the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile (G1). With both exceptional quality and three of his best-bred books consisting of more than 600 mares in the pipeline, Not This Time is positioned to build on his already substantial accomplishments. Early Voting, winner of the 2022 Preakness Stakes (G1) and a son of leading stallion and 2017 Horse of the Year Gun Runner, will stand for $12,500 with a stands and nurses guarantee. Early Voting was represented by his first sales yearlings that included a $700,000 colt and a $525,000 colt at the Keeneland September sale, and a $525,000 co-sale-topping filly at the Fasig-Tipton New York Bred Yearling Sale. Early Voting ranks as a top five first-crop yearling sire, averaging $141,508 and a return on investment that is 5.6 times his first-year fee. Early Voting had an 89% fertility rate in 2025, and the classic winner is out of a Tiznow half sister to the influential sire Speightstown. Knicks Go, whose fee will be announced later, is the co-leading first-crop sire by graded stakes winners and already has 14 winners to his credit. Leading the charge is Ewing, a $585,000 Ocala Breeders' Sales Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training graduate who proved his class at Saratoga Race Course with a dominating 12-length maiden special weight win on debut before securing a front-running victory in the Saratoga Special Stakes (G2). Knicks Go is also the sire of La Culasse, third in the Natalma Stakes (G1T) at Woodbine in September. Instilled Regard, who will stand for $8,000, is the sire of Minaret Station, the OXO Equine homebred who won the Bourbon Stakes at Keeneland at 2 last year and followed up with a victory in the American Derby at Churchill Downs this year at 3. Instilled Regard is further represented by Gordon Pass, third in this year's Bourbon Stakes. Also standing for $8,000 is Instagrand, who is a top 10 second-crop sire in 2025 and is the second-leading second-crop sire by cumulative winners with 80, second only to Vekoma. Instagrand is the sire of grade 1-placed Ourdaydreaminggirl, third in the Cotillion Stakes (G1) at Parx Racing, and his leading earner on the year is Gateskeeper, runner-up in the Gallant Bob Stakes (G2) at Parx. Tacitus is represented this year by his first 2-year-olds, which include recent maiden special weight winners Silent Tactic, a $500,000 acquisition by John Oxley at the OBS Spring Sale and an impressive 2-length winner at Woodbine in his career bow for Mark Casse, and Politics, a determined winner at 1 1/16 miles at Churchill Downs in his second start for Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and trainer Michael McCarthy. Tacitus will stand for $5,000. Dr. Schivel, a grade 1 winner at 2 and 3 by leading sire Violence, welcomed first foals in 2025. Winner of the 2020 Del Mar Futurity (G1) at 2 and the Bing Crosby Stakes (G1) at 3 against older horses, Dr. Schivel just missed in the 2021 Breeders' Cup Sprint (G1) at Del Mar. He was a two-time winner of the Santa Anita Sprint Championship Stakes (G2), including in 2023 when he got 6 furlongs in a sizzling 1:08.49. Dr. Schivel will have first yearlings in 2026. Dr. Schivel will stand for $5,000. Idol, victorious in the 2021 Santa Anita Handicap (G1) and a son of two-time Horse of the Year Curlin, was represented by well-received first yearlings this year, including a $175,000 colt purchased by Repole Stable at Fasig-Tipton's The Saratoga Sale. Idol, who will stand for $5,000, is out of the stakes-winning A.P. Indy mare Marion Ravenwood and is a full brother to multiple grade 1 winner Nest. Idol's first 2-year-olds hit the track in 2026. Angel of Empire stood his first season at stud in 2025 and will stand the upcoming season for $5,000. Winner of the 2023 Arkansas Derby (G1), Angel of Empire also won the Risen Star Stakes (G2) and finished a charging third as the race favorite in the Kentucky Derby (G1). Angel of Empire hit the board in seven of nine lifetime starts and banked $1,489,375. Taylor Made Stallions will be offering incentives for multiple mares and previous breeders. The 2026 roster of stallions and fees for Taylor Made Stallions are as follows: All fees with stands and nurses guarantees.