Share in Not This Time to be offered at Fasig-Tipton Saratoga sale

A share in prominent young sire Not This Time will be offered via a public-auction platform at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale.

The share will be offered at the start of the second and final session of the yearling sale, on Tuesday, Aug. 8, at the Humphrey S. Finney Pavilion in Saratoga. Online and phone bidding will also be available. The offering will be consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency. Taylor Made stands Not This Time, a Giant's Causeway horse who was campaigned by Albaugh Family Stables, in Nicholasville, Ky.

“The Not This Time share is a very exciting addition to our Saratoga sale this year,” Fasig-Tipton president Boyd Browning Jr., said in a release. “He is off to a remarkable start at stud, and at just 9 years old, he has a very exciting future ahead of him.”

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Not This Time is the sire of four crops of racing age, including current 2-year-olds. He is the sire of 31 stakes winners, 12 of those being graded stakes winners. That group is led by last year's Eclipse Award champion 3-year-old male Epicenter; this year's Group 1 Golden Shaheen winner Sibelius; this year's multiple Grade 1-winning turf standout Up to the Mark; and Grade 1 winners Just One Time and Princess Noor. Buoyed by those standouts, Not This Time finished 10th on the North American general sire earnings list in 2022, according to Daily Racing Form statistics, and ranks 10th for 2023 through July 25.

Not This Time is also a top 10 sire on the Beyer Sire Performance Standings, Daily Racing Form's exclusive stallion metrics. He ranks eighth in the nation with 28 benchmark Beyer Speed Figures of 90 or higher earned by his progeny through July 25. Six triple-digit Beyers earned by his runners put him sixth so far this year.

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