Two Seven-Figure Sales Hit Early for Not This Time

A $1.7 million colt (Hip 211) consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency topped two seven-figure yearlings by leading sire Not This Time   that sold within the first 20 hips through the ring during the Sept. 9 second session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale. 

Agent Pedro Lanz signed for Hip 211 on behalf of Saudi Arabia-based KAS Stables. The dark bay or brown colt is out of the winning Bernardini mare Wembley , who is a daughter of grade 1 winner Game Face (Menifee). The colt was bred in Kentucky by Albaugh Grand Stables, which also bred and raced Not This Time

A few hips earlier, Not This Time also was represented by Hip 197, a $1 million filly consigned by Taylor Made Sales that was bought by Repole Stable. The filly is a half sister to multiple graded stakes winner Skippylongstocking  (Exaggerator ) and graded-placed stakes winners Olivia Twist  (Mshawish ) and Moonlite Strike  (Liam's Map  ). 

Not This Time stands at Taylor Made Stallions for $175,000. Through Sept. 8, he sits second on the leading general sire list behind Into Mischief  . Not This Time had the highest-priced filly during the Sept. 8 opening session, when Hip 144 sold for $2 million to David Lanigan and Ted Durcan, the agents for Cindy Heider from the consignment of Hinkle Farms. 

"When I see the physical … the way he behaves in the stall is amazing," Lanz said of Hip 211. "I told them this is my favorite colt in all of the sale. A Bernardini mare, by a hot sire (Not This Time), I'm very excited.

"This is the one I really liked, so I'm very happy. I told him 'Let's go all in.' I was ready to go one more." 

Lanz signed for a colt by by Into Mischief   (Hip 147) during Monday's session for $700,000, also for KAS Stables. Lanz said those two colts and a Constitution   colt purchased for $1 million at The Saratoga Sale, Fasig-Tipton's select yearling sale, will stay and race in the United States. They will get their early training at Scanlon Training and Sales near Ocala, Fla. A trainer has not yet been decided.

"We have a Bernardini filly here with Bill Mott," he said. "It's kind of a new idea to race here in the United States with top-class horses like this."

"I think we might get one or two more," Lanz said when asked if he was going to purchase anymore during the September sale.