If you have been considering sending a mare to Widden Stud’s exciting new shuttle sire Cogburn (USA) or have already booked one in you are going to be pretty interested in what is going on at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale this week where his sire Not This Time is in hot demand.
You would have heard the story about his sire Not This Time, who started off a low base before achieving fame and fortune that has earned him comparisons to our own I Am Invincible as a sire that seriously upgrades his mares.
While he needed that ability early in his career to make his mark when covering pedestrian mares, his current crop of yearlings are those conceived after he achieved that success and the pedigree pages are now beginning to match the types.
Not This Time had 12 yearlings sell on the first day of the sale at an average $764,583 putting him third on the sire averages behind only Gun Runner and Flightline.
Not This Time had the highest priced filly of the session and second highest overall with Hinkle Farm’s filly from Stave selling for $2million to David Lanigan, Ted Durcan as agent for Mrs. Cindy Heider.
She is the third foal of stakes-placed Ghostzapper mare Stave, a daughter of Group II winner Buy the Barrel with the family also producing stakes-winner Coco as in Chanel (USA), who is at stud in Australia and produced $1.2million 3YO Extreme Choice colt Pimlico, who is running at Canterbury on Wednesday.
“I knew this filly was in the catalog,” Heider’s husband, Scott Heider, said. “There are two fillies on the page (Surf N Sand and Coco as in Chanel) that we raced and were stakes winners for us.
“We knew the family, and we really like the Hinkle family. They raise very good horses. We looked at a lot of good fillies in Book 1 and I told (my team), ‘This is the one I want.’ I had no idea we would have to wrestle that hard to get it done.
“It is a testament to the Hinkle family and what they raise. With two stakes fillies on the page that we raced, that is about as good karma as you can get. Everyone was happy, so we stretched a little bit.”
Second highest price for Not This Time was the Taylor Made Sales consigned colt from Out Post that made $1.6million when knocked down to Windancer Farms.
The colt is a half-brother to stakes-winner Jace’s Road from stakes-placed Silver Deputy mare Out Post.
Not This Time is enjoying a hot run on the racetrack this year siring 17 individual stakes-winners in 2025 headed by 3YO colt Troubleshooting, who won the Group I Kentucky Downs Franklin-Simpson Stakes last weekend.
His first son to stud is Group I winning sprinter Cogburn (USA), who stands at a fee of $27,500 this spring.
