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Taylor Made Stallions announces 2025 stud fees

Taylor Made Stallions has set its 2025 stallion roster and fees for the upcoming breeding season headed by Not This Time, who will stand for $175,000 S&N.

Not This Time continues to prove why he is undoubtedly one of the most sought-after stallions in the industry. He has enjoyed yet another banner year with standout performers on the racetrack and booming sales results in the auction ring. Not This Time is the sire of arguably two of the best horses in training in 2024 in Grade 1 winner and North American record-setter Cogburn and multiple graded stakes winner Next, the most dominant dirt horse this season.

Not This Time ranks second by percentage of stakes horses at 15.2 percent; He is the third-ranked sire by stakes horses with 31; and is fourth by graded stakes winners with seven. The pipeline is deep, as Not This Time is also a leading sire of 2-year-olds this year. He ranks fifth overall and is tops among all stallions with nine 2-year-old stakes horses and two graded stakes winners.

In the sale ring, Not This Time had four yearlings sell for a million dollars or more in 2024, including the $3.4 million sales topper at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale, the second-highest priced yearling in North America this year. The other three million-dollar yearlings were all sold in session two of the Keeneland September Sale. All told, Not This Time has had an incredible sales season, grossing more than $37 million in yearling sales, making him the second-leading sire by gross sales.

Early Voting, winner of the 2022 Preakness S. (G1) and a son of leading stallion and Horse of the Year Gun Runner, stood his first season at Taylor Made in 2024. He scored the biggest win of his career in the 147th Preakness S. (G1). In his initial season at Taylor Made, Early Voting, who is out of a half-sister to Speightstown, had an in-foal rate of nearly 90 percent. A first-crop weanling filly sold to Mandalay Stables for $150,000 at Tuesday’s Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Fall Sale.

Knicks Go, Horse of the Year and Champion Older Male of 2021 and Longines Best Racehorse of 2021, was represented by first yearlings in 2024. A two-time track record-setter and a Grade 1 winner at two, four, and five, Knicks Go was a wire-to-wire winner of the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) at Del Mar—just two clicks off the 18-year-old track record set by Candy Ride (ARG). He is the fastest miler in Keeneland history, winning the 2020 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1) in the track record time of 1:33.85. The first yearlings by Knicks Go proved popular in the auction ring and include a $425,000 colt bought by CHC/Maverick Racing/Siena Farm at Keeneland September.

Instilled Regard, a royally-bred son of Arch and a $1,050,000 OBS March Sale graduate, was a four-time graded stakes winner on dirt and turf. Winner of the Manhattan S. (G1), Instilled Regard hails from a prolific Phipps family—his second dam is champion mare Heavenly Prize. Instilled Regard’s first 2-year-olds include Minaret Station, who was an impressive 1 ½-length winner of Keeneland’s $350,000 Bourbon S. (G2), a “Win and You’re In” for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1).

Instagrand, a son of Champion Sire Into Mischief and a $1.2 million Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream Sale graduate, is also represented by first 2-year-olds. His first crop has come out running. Instagrand already has 13 winners worldwide, including Keewaydin, an impressive maiden special weight winner at Belmont at the Big A on Saturday, earning a 90 Beyer Speed Figure. Instagrand is also the sire of stakes-placed Mischievous Bria, runner-up in the Iowa Sorority S. at Prairie Meadows, and Superwolf, second in the Best of Ohio Cleveland Kindergarten S. at Thistledown.

Discounted seasons will be available for both Instilled Regard and Instagrand for mares seven years and younger and for other approved mares based on pedigree.

Tacitus, a multiple graded stakes winner and earner of more than $3.7 million, is a son of Tapit out of Champion Older Female and five-time Grade 1 winner Close Hatches. The Juddmonte homebred won or placed in 10 graded stakes, including five Grade 1s and two Classic races. A full brother to 2024 graded stakes winners Batten Down and Scylla, from the family of reigning Champion Female Idiomatic, Tacitus is the No. 1 Freshman Sire of sale yearlings amongst stallions standing for under $30,000. His first yearlings have commanded up to $300,000, $260,00, $230,000, $225,000, $220,000, etc.

Dr. Schivel, a Grade 1 winner at two and three by Violence, welcomes first foals in 2025. Winner of the 2020 Del Mar Futurity (G1) at two and the Bing Crosby (G1) at three against older horses, Dr. Schivel was also a close runner-up by a whisker in the 2021 Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) at Del Mar. Dr. Schivel was a two-time winner of the Santa Anita Sprint Championship (G2), including in 2023 where he blitzed six furlongs in 1:08.49, defeating graded stakes winner Speed Boat Beach and Grade 1 winner Arabian Lion. All told, Dr. Schivel banked more than $1.3 million in a stellar racing career.

Idol, winner of the 2021 Santa Anita H. (G1), stood his first season at Taylor Made in 2023. A full brother to multiple Grade 1 winner Nest ($2,172,675), Idol is a son of two-time Horse of the Year Curlin out of the stakes-winning A.P. Indy mare Marion Ravenwood.

Rowayton, a multiple Grade 1-placed juvenile by Into Mischief, has first 2-year-olds this year. He is represented by stakes-placed Roxton, a maiden special weight winner at PARX and third in the Sapling S. at Monmouth Park.

Angel of Empire will stand his first season at stud in 2025. Winner of the 2023 Arkansas Derby (G1) just like his sire Classic Empire—the 2016 Champion 2-Year-Old Male—Angel of Empire also won the Risen Star S. (G2) and finished a rallying third as the race favorite in the 149th Kentucky Derby (G1) for owner Albaugh Family Stables and trainer Brad Cox. Angel of Empire recorded a career-best 104 Beyer Speed Figure on two occasions—in the Kentucky Derby and in finishing third in the Jim Dandy S. (G2). All told, Angel of Empire hit the board in 7-of-9 lifetime starts, banking $1,489,375.

The 2025 roster of stallions and fees for Taylor Made Stallions are as follows:

Stallion 2025 Fee
Angel of Empire – NEW $7,500
Dr. Schivel $10,000
Early Voting $12,500
Idol $7,500
Instagrand $10,000
Instilled Regard $10,000
Knicks Go TBD
Not This Time $175,000
Rowayton $2,500
Tacitus $10,000
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