Runaway leads the pack for the third season Not this time (Giant’s Causeway) will cost S&N $135,000 in 2023 as the top of the Taylor Made Stallions list, the farm announced Monday.
Top freshmen for 2020 by number of black winners and winners, and top sophomores for 2021 in all major statistical categories, Not this time once again find themselves at the top of the leaderboard this season. In 2022, he is proud to be the winner of 12 best stakes of the crop, 25 black horses, five graded stake winners, a pair of Class I winners and the year’s progeny earnings is $10,633,215 so far. He is the second 3 year old male in terms of income, just behind Gunman, and the top brood in North America as a percentage of winning black crosses for the second consecutive year was 8.3%. His top achievements on the track this season are leading 3-year-old Epicenter, winner of GI Travers S., GII Jim Dandy S., GII Louisiana Derby, GII Risen Star S. and Gunman S. He also finished second in the GI Kentucky Derby and GI Preakness S., accumulating earnings of $2,800,100 in his sophomore campaign.
Taylor Made will further strengthen its roster in 2023 with the arrival of a Class I winner Idol (Curlin), the 2021 Santa Anita H. winner and the same age brother to multiple Class I winners, Nest, who will stand in the first season for $10,000 S&N as the Repole Stable Venture/ Taylor Made Stallions.
Knicks Go (Payer), Horse of the Year, Longines Senior Men’s Champion and World’s Best Racehorse in 2021, will come in for a second season at S&N $30,000. Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) $6 million gate-to-wire winner in Del Mar – just two clicks away from the 18-year-old track record set by Candy Ride (Arg) –Knicks Go scored 112 Beyer in victory. A two-time track record holder and a Class I winner at two, four and five, Knicks Go earned over $9.2 million in his sensational racing career.
Tacitus (Tapit), a graded multi-stakes winner and more than $3.7 million from the older Women’s Champion and five-time Close Hatches Class I winner, will cost $10,000 S&N, along the fee he charged for his first season at the school a year ago . Purebred Juddmonte Farms won or placed in 10 classifications, including five Is and two Classic races.
Instagram (Into Mischief), the $1.2 million acquisition of Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream Sale and ‘TDN’s Rising Star’, will have an S&N price of $7,500. Instagram welcomes his first ponies in 2022 and his first book on mares includes GI Breeders’ Cup Distaff Champion Blue Prize (Arg). An early juvenile, Instagram lead the line to win the GII Best Pal S. with 10 3/4 length after breaking her maiden 10 length in her debut. He has also participated in GIII Gotham S. and GI Santa Anita Derby.
Permeation (Arch) has also seen his first ponies arrive this year, and he will stand for the upcoming season for $7,500 S&N. During his racing career, Permeation won GI Manhattan S. and earned $983,240. He comes from a well-to-do family – his second dam was the Heaven Prize winning mare, the dam of the Purity Prize.
Rowayton (Into Mischief), a multiple-time ranked I minor by Into Mischief, returns for his second season at stud school and will cost $7,500 S&N. The first women’s special weight class winner, Rowayton finished second in GI Del Mar Futurity and also placed in GI American pharoah S. behind the 2 year old Champion then Colt Game winner. Rowayton is half-sister to the two-time Miss Naughty Canadian Champion and comes from the family of champions Letruska and Proud Spell.
