\nWhen superstar sire Giant\u2019s Causeway died in 2018 it rocked the\nbreeding world. The three time leading North American sire had been\nthat rare horse who was both a champion in the racing world and a\nchampion in the breeding shed. He was Europe\u2019s Horse of the Year\nin 2000 when, as a three year old he reeled off five straight group\none victories in the span of only eleven weeks. After a second place\nfinish in his final European race he was sent to America to contest\nthe Breeders\u2019 Cup Classic and in his first start on the dirt he\nfinished just a neck behind Tiznow. He was also a group one winning\ntwo year old. Overall he was never worse than second in his thirteen\nrace career which saw him earn over $3,000,000. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Giant\u2019s Causeway\nwas an instant success at stud, siring eight group or graded winners\nin his first two crops including four winners at the top level. His\nbest runner from his first crop was multiple group one winner\nShamardal who would go on to have a stellar stud career before\npassing away unexpectedly this year. Yet in North America Giant\u2019s\nCauseway\u2019s best sons were not able to follow in his footsteps at\nstud. Multiple grade one winner First Samurai from his second crop\nwas solid and he was follwed by decent, but not great sons like\nCreative Causeway and perhaps his best sire-son Eskendereya. When\nthe Giant passed away it seemed as if his legacy would not be carried\non outside of Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All of that has\nchanged. In 2016 a brilliant son of Giant\u2019s Causeway named Not\nThis Time turned the heads of the racing world. After an unplaced\neffort in a sprint debut he dominated a one mile maiden special\nweight, winning by ten lengths while geared down in the stretch. \nDespite that his final eighth of a mile was a sub twelve seconds. He\nfollowed that up with an even more impressive eight and three quarter\nlength win in the Grade Three Iroquois Stakes. Off of those two\nefforts he was made the favorite in the Breeders\u2019 Bowl Juvenile. \nHe was facing off against budding star Classic Empire who also\nentered off a strong performance in Kentucky, in his case winning the\nGrade One Breeders\u2019 Futurity. Those two colts took the majority of\nthe money in the Breeders\u2019 Cup and they didn\u2019t disappoint. The\nmore experienced Classic Empire had a very good trip and used that\nexperience to his advantage while Not This Time had a less than ideal\ntrip but ran a huge race. The two hooked up for a stretch duel for\nthe ages with Classic Empire prevailing by a neck over Not This Time.\n The third place finisher, multiple grade one winner Practical Joke\nwas over seven lengths behind those two. In the race Not This Time\nearned a 4 \u00be Ragozin figure (which factors in trip and lengths\nlost) which was faster than Classic Empire was assigned and the\nfastest for any two year old of 2016. That number was also the\nfastest Ragozin run in the Breeders\u2019 Cup Juvenile since Uncle Mo. \nBoth colts earned 102 Beyers and 0 Thorograph ratings, also the\nhighest of each number earned by any two year old of 2016. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not This Time exited\nthe race with a soft tissue injury that would end his career. One\ncan only imagine what he might have done in that race were it not for\nthe bad trip and ending the race injured (although Classic Empire was\nno slouch and you can take nothing away from his tenacity in holding\noff his rival at the end). Not This Time came from a very well\nthought of female family. His dam Miss Lacy Sue was a daughter of\nTrippi who was an ultra fast graded winning sprinter. Although she\ndid win at the graded level perhaps her best race was a third place\nfinish in the Breeders\u2019 Cup Filly and Mare Sprint. Miss Macy Sue\u2019s\nfirst foal was a filly by A.P. Indy who was retained by her breeder\nwho believed she had potential but she never got a chance to show it\non the racetrack due to injury. Her second foal was a striking\nUnbridled\u2019s Song colt who brought $800,000 at the Keeneland\nSeptember Yearling Sale. Even with the high price tag breeder Dennis\nAlbaugh of Albaugh Family Stable regretted selling the colt who was\nlater named Liam\u2019s Map and became a Breeders\u2019 Cup Dirt Mile\nwinner. After another filly foal the striking Giant\u2019s Causeway\ncolt was foaled. Albaugh decided he would not have regret by selling\nthe colt, saying \u201cnot this time\u201d and the colt got his name. Miss\nMacy Sue descends tail female from the great mare Ta Wee a two time\nchampion sprinter and half sister to the brilliant Dr. Fager. Ta\nWee\u2019s best foal was the speedy Great Above who is the broodmare\nsire of Miss Macy Sue, making her inbred to Ta Wee 3×4. Although\nthis family is known for speed Great Above\u2019s best son was Horse of\nthe Year Holy Bull who famously carried his speed to a mile and a\nquarter in the Grade One Travers Stakes. Not This Time obviously had\nno trouble going a mile and a sixteenth and ran like a horse who\ncould go even longer even though he never got a chance to try it. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He entered stud in\n2017 for a fee of $15,000. That seemed a reasonable fee for a horse\nwho showed more potential than deep race record. Even though his\npedigree had strong points again Giant\u2019s Causeway did not have a\nreputation as a sire of sires. His fee would drop to $12,500 for\nlater crops which is what he stood for through 2019. In 2020 that\nfee will jump to $40,000 based on the strength of his first two year\nolds. A few weeks ago this writer took on the phenomenal Nyquist\nwho, at the time was the leading freshman sire of 2020. Since that\nwriting Not This Time has taken over at the top of the list by\nprogeny earnings (although the two sires will likely duel for the\ntitle through the end of the year). Not This Time\u2019s leading runner\nis grade one winner Princess Noor who took the Grade One Delmar\nDebutante at seven furlongs and most recently the Grade Two\nChandelier Stakes at a mile and a sixteenth. She will enter the\nBreeders\u2019 Cup Juvenile Fillies as one of, if not the favorite. Not\nThis Time has also sired a listed winner and a grade three placed\nfilly. But his strength is really in the depth of his success. He\nhas sired seventeen winners as of this writing, seven more than his\nrival Nyquist. He also has four black type horses to his rival\u2019s\nthree, although Nyquist does have two grade one winners to Not This\nTime\u2019s one. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not This Time stands\nat Taylor Made Stud which has managed his books very successfully. \nWhile most stallions see big drop offs in the number of foals in\ntheir second and third crops Taylor Made has done well attracting\nmares to Not This Time through those usually lean years. Also the\nmares Not This Time have included some high quality mares. Tops\namong them include a coup this year by attracting Broodmare of the\nYear Leslie\u2019s Lady (dam of Beholder, Into Mischief and\nMendelssohn). Overall the future looks very bright for Not This\nTime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As an aside Giant\u2019s\nCauseway may have another chance at a top sire from another Albaugh\nStables runner Brody\u2019s Causeway. A grade one winning two year old\nBrody\u2019s Causeway is currently in the top ten leading freshman sires\nand ties with Not This Time with two black type winners and four\nblack type horses from significantly fewer foals and runners. \nGiant\u2019s Causeway\u2019s 2019 Horse of the Year Bricks and Mortar also\nhas a chance to become a leading sire in Japan where dirt racing has\nbecome more popular in recent years although turf racing is still\ndominant. The future certainly looks different for the Giant\u2019s\nCauseway sireline in 2020 than it did upon his death. \n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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