Pedigree Profile: No More Time
The Sam F. Davis winner is his sire's 32nd black type winner
Last Saturday, No More Time went off favored in the Sam F. Davis Stakes, and the money proved to be right as he led the field gate to wire, winning by a length and a quarter over Agate Road. It was No More Time’s second victory in four lifetime starts, and his first stakes win.
No More Time’s sire, Not This Time, has cemented himself as the preeminent carrier of the Giant’s Causeway sire line in North America. As a racehorse, his career was brief but showed sparks of promise, such as a ten-length maiden victory and a 8 3/4 length win in the Iroquois before a close runner-up finish in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile in what would prove to be his final career start. He entered stud in 2017 for a $15,000 stud fee, but in 2024 he will stand for ten times that amount.
Despite the light resume on the track, Not This Time had a pedigree that hinted at his potential as a sire. His dam, Miss Macy Sue, had already produced Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile winner Liam’s Map, who had entered stud at a $25,000 mark the previous year, as well as stakes winner Taylor S (a fourth stakes winner, Matera, was born the year Not This Time entered stud). Miss Macy Sue herself was a graded stakes winner by Trippi whose dam was inbred to the brilliant racemare and blue hen Ta Wee. Ta Wee was the fourth dam of Miss Macy Sue and the dam of her damsire Great Above.
Not This Time quickly proved to be a stallion to watch, siring three stakes winners in his first crop and leading the 2021 second-crop sire list with 13 black type winners - more than twice as many as any other stallion in his class. He went one better in 2022, leading the third-crop sire list with 14 stakes winners, including Travers Stakes winner Epicenter. Last year, in addition to leading the fourth-crop sire list, he was 8th on the national leading sire list, with Up to the Mark as his season high earner.
Clearly, No More Time is by an elite stallion, and he brings in plenty of intrigue on his dam’s side as well. Though his dam, Baroness Juliette, was the winner of only a Prairie Meadows maiden claiming race in her career, she is the product of intriguing linebreeding. She’s bred on the prolific Speightstown/Medaglia d’Oro nick, which I delved into here. Both Speightstown and Medaglia d’Oro are members of Lowe family 9b, tracing tail-female to Idle Fancy. Medaglia d’Oro is himself linebred to this family via his second damsire Silent Screen, whose second dam Sunday Evening is Medaglia d’Oro’s sixth dam. Baroness Juliette gets yet another source of that family from her second damsire, Cherokee Colony, whose second dam Copper Canyon is the fourth dam of Speightstown.
Baroness Juliette is a half sister to G1 Hollywood Futurity winner Siphonic and to the dam of G1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf winner Laragh. No More Time is the eighth stakes winner tracing to his second dam, and the family gets deeper the deeper one digs. G1 winner Smooth Like Strait shares his third dam with Baroness Juliette, and this branch of family 4r going back to No More Time’s seventh dam Hillbrook is responsible for 71 stakes winners worldwide, including 12 G1 winners.
No More Time is his sire’s second stakes winner out of a Speightstown mare, having produced G1 Madison winner Just One Time from a daughter of that stallion. He now has two stakes winners in just five starters on the cross. He also has multiple stakes winner Ain’t Life Grand out of a Medaglia d’Oro mare in five starters on the cross. He has produced graded stakes winner Easy Time from a distant branch of family 4r,
Not This Time has proven that he can get a classic horse, with Epicenter and Up To The Mark being G1 winners at a mile and a quarter, as well as the brilliant router Next, a stakes winner at up to a mile and three quarters, and F Five, a stakes winner at two miles. Whether Not This Time can infuse stamina into his offspring is beyond a doubt. The influence of Speightstown on the bottom is a bit of a question mark, though. While Speightstown himself has sired winners at all distances, including eight G1 winners at a mile and a quarter and a group two stakes winner in France at 3018 meters (approximately 15 furlongs), his daughters have produced mostly sprinter-milers, with only a pair of listed stakes winners at ten furlongs out of Speightstown mares. It will be interesting to see if No More Time can buck that trend - Not This Time is certainly the kind of sire that gives you confidence that, as the races get longer, No More Time will be able to keep up.