Not This Time was the leading 2-year-old sire of 2025, which helped him finish second on the North American general sire list. And here’s the scary thing – that wasn’t even expected to be his best crop of 2-year-olds. “He’s got in the pipeline these really good mares, really good horses,” said Frank Taylor of the family operation Taylor Made Farm, which stands the stallion in Kentucky. “It just showed [in 2025] how much the market loves him, and he just has no weakness in his armor. He’s the real deal.” Having had success with his early crops, Not This Time’s stud fee jumped from $45,000 in 2022 to $135,000 in 2023, the year his 2-year-olds of 2026 were conceived. Theoretically, that makes this crop coming to the sales and races his best bred and most promising yet. The demand showed at the 2025 yearling sales. Not This Time averaged a career-high $668,074 from 75 yearlings sold, a price jump from $345,992 in 2024. The stallion has four well-bred representatives consigned to the first juvenile auction of 2026, the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co.’s March sale of 2-year-olds in training. They are a filly out of Lady Pauline, a half-sister to European champion Lady Aurelia; a colt out of Grade 2-placed stakes winner Li’l Tootsie; a filly out of Onslaught, a full sister to Grade 1 winner Callback and from the immediate family of Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver; and a filly out of Street Strut, who is from the outstanding family of Broodmare of the Year Better Than Honour. Although many of Not This Time’s high-priced yearlings last year went to end users, Li’l Tootsie’s colt is a pinhook prospect, having been purchased for $150,000 at the Keeneland September yearling sale by consignor Tom McCrocklin. Onslaught’s filly and Street Strut’s filly have both had additional time to mature into 2-year-olds after failing to meet reserves as yearlings, for bids of $325,000 at Keeneland September and $390,000 at Fasig-Tipton October, respectively. Not This Time, by Giant’s Causeway, was an impressive winner of the Grade 3 Iroquois and runner-up in the 2016 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile before a soft-tissue injury ended his racing career prematurely. The Albaugh Family Stables homebred has stood at Taylor Made throughout his career. Not This Time is the sire of 2022 Eclipse Award champion 3-year-old male Epicenter, 2023 Eclipse champion turf male Up to the Mark, and 11 other Grade/Group 1 winners worldwide. Those include 2025 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint winner Cy Fair, who helped propel him to the juvenile sire title over reigning leading sire Into Mischief by earnings ($5,555,421 to $5,500,015), individual winners (40 to 35), and stakes winners (nine to six). Not This Time finished second to Into Mischief on the national earnings list with more than 150 fewer starters than the older stallion, but edged him by individual stakes winners on the season, 30 to 27. He also led the overall turf sires list over another established stallion, Twirling Candy. Not This Time is off to a strong start this season, setting the table for his 2-year-old crop when that division begins racing in April. He is the sire of Grade 3 Holy Bull winner and prominent Kentucky Derby candidate Nearly; Grade 3 Forward Gal winner On Time Girl; Group 3 UAE 2000 Guineas winner Six Speed; and Grade 3 Royal Delta winner Claret Beret. “It puts a big smile on our face,” said Jason Loutsch of Albaugh Family Stables. “Obviously, we didn’t see his true talent as a 3-year-old on the track, and that was devastating to us. We did the right thing, and we didn’t risk going forward, and we put him in the stallion barn. Every year, it just seems to get a little better, and I think the future is really bright.”