The classic season is over. Surface readings show Arrogate (Song of the Unbridled), Keen Ice (Curlin), and Gunman (Candy Ride {Arg}) have won the GI Kentucky Oaks, the GI Kentucky Derby and the GI Preakness S. respectively from their very first crop and proven masculinity. Uncle Mo (Indian Charlie), who has won the Derby from his first bout in 2016, has selected the winner of the GI Belmont S. Sometimes, though, the content in between the lines is just as important. like the content on the site and by Taylor Made Not this time (Giant’s Causeway), whose sons in the second case Epicenter and Simplification were key players in the run to the Classics and in Derby and Preakness itself, has occupied that space this season. .
Epicenter, who racked up two wins before a Class II Derby at the Fair Grounds – the Risen Star S. and Twinspires.com Louisiana Derby – was placed on the Derby favorites list and finished an admirable second. He returned to the Preakness as a race favorite and finished second again, this time with breakdowns and a ride that left him with so much more to do.
Simplify won the GII Fasig-Tipton Fountain of Youth S. at Gulfstream and placed third in the GI Curlin Florida Derby. He also featured in the Derby, placing 4th, ahead of winner Belmont S. then Mo Donegal.
These two, both from Candy Ride mare, joined by two others Not this time 3-year-olds are vying for places in the Classics. In Due Time is second behind Simplification in the Fountain of Youth, ahead of Howling Time at ninth, who returned to second place ahead of Cyberknife (Gunman), winner of the GI Arkansas Derby, in GIII Matt Winn S. at Churchill the day after Belmont S.
All said, Not this timewith his oldest ponies just four, represented by 18 black category winners, including two Class I winners – who have won the GI Madison S only once. at Keeneland a month before the Derby, and Princess Noor was a top-tier second-place winner in 2020. Seven out of 18 were graded bet winners.
This is an impressive journey for the half brother of Lane’s End’s Map of Liam, more because they’re all formed for a $15,000 flat fee. Just the last two seasons, his stud fees have increased to $40,000 (in 2021), $45,000 (early this year) and $75,000 (later this year). The mares bred to him for a higher premium will no doubt include some significantly better racers and performers than the horses covered during his first four years. ta, and they will include a number of mares that Taylor Made has specifically selected for him by pedigree analysis. All of these will certainly raise the stock output of stallions in the years to come.
The stallions among his seven graded winners are respectable enough, with dams equal to Candy Ride (two), Tapit, Sightstown, Smart Strike, Cape Town and Wilko. However, the modest final sale prices of these mares tell the real story: Simply put down a deposit (Candy Ride) sold for $80,000, in ponies to Not this time; Silent Candy (Candy Ride), a Category III bet winner, making $130,000, in ponies for Scat Daddy; non-winner Happy Melodies (Tapit) is a $65,000 RNA, in Flameaway; Ida Clark (Sightstown), winner $25,580, sold for $60,000, in foal to Machining; Unrated Smart Jilly (Smart Strike) is a $70,000 2-year-old; Unraced Running Creek (Cape Town) sold for $35,000, in ponies for Latent Heat; and 3rd place winner Sheza Smoke Show (Wilko) sold for $185,000, with ponies to Not this time.
The first ranked winner for each of these mares is by Not this time. In some cases, they are bred into high-grade stallions before producing graded winners.
Silent Candy, Epicenter’s dam, has a pony that hasn’t been marked by More than ready and winner $34,404 by Scat Daddy; Running Creek, the Easy Time Class III winner’s dam, had a Spinning candy winner $57.410 and Pioneerof the Nile winner $48,896; and Sheza Smoke Show, Princess Noor’s dam, had a Malibu Moon winner of $28,056, and one unranked Map of Liam.
Not this time only raced in second place, and he started just four times, winning twice. However, he won the GIII Iroquois S. at Churchill by 8 3/4 length and followed by a neck second. Classic Empire in the GI Sentient Jet Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Santa Anita, outstripping third place 7 1/2 Realistic jokes. Classic Empire would go on to win the Arkansas Derby and Realistic jokes GI H. Allen Jerkens S. at Saratoga, so his form is clearly among the top and there is no telling what he could have achieved had the injury not ended his career. that. His half-brother Map of Liam is the winner of multiple class I.
Not this time entered the school at the age of three and was an outstanding specimen, large and tall, and he impressed breeders immediately by obtaining good looking ponies. Buyers responded during the sales round, paying an average price of $76,833 for 18 weaners from the first crop sold in 2018, with seven earning $100,000 or more. Since then, he has become something of a mass selling sensation for a direct fee. Princess Noor, for example, made $1.35 million at the age of 2 at OBS in April 2020.
In his case, looks translated into performance.
Black style percentage
That Not this time selected 18 black winners which is impressive for face value alone, but it is even more so as a percentage of named ponies. Today, with popular stallions typically covering more than 100 mares per year, a good stallion can be expected to win 5% of the black category victory for ponies, and for those Young horses are less likely to race crops, this rate is even lower.
War front leads all established Kentucky stallions at 11.23%, followed by Tapit at 9.86%, Sightstown 9.77%, naughty 8.56%, Medaglia d’Oro 8.36%, Curlin 8.29% and Ghostzapper 7.89%.
Not this time next on the following list Ghostzapper at 7.47%, before Munnings at 7.15%, Quality Sugar 7.13%, Uncle Mo 6.95%, Structure 6.80%, More than ready 6.73% and Street Sense 6.67%.
You get the picture. Not this time is right up there in producing black winners with the best in the country, and he’s the youngest of the bunch.
Among his cohorts, he was the third-most breeding male, ahead of Laoban with 5.71%, Start up at 4.07%, Hit It a Bomb 3.95%, Nyquist 3.18% and Runhappy 3.04%.
Not this timeThe first crop came to the races in COVID 2020 when the race, for life, was interrupted, but then there were clues – at least in August, as I write here.”Not this time Lead freshman Sires”–then he will be more than just a flash in the pan. Once there, he had won special girlhood winners of quality and achievement far beyond his tuition, and that impression became reality.
A stallion that can raise its mares to graded and listed levels – not to mention Classic candidates – for a fee of $15,000 is a stallion that can better withstand the odds. book quality declines from year two to year four, and this year we’ll see that the second one led by Epicenter and others is recorded as highly effective.
He is a real person.
Sid Fernando is the president and chief executive officer of Werk Thoroughbred Consultants, Inc., the founder of Werk Nick Ratings and eNicks.
